Examples Of View Of Paul In Tangerine

The war also changed Paul by hampering his ability to communicate with the people on the home front. Paul learns that it is hard to communicate with them when he visits his hometown. He realizes that people have no clue how bad war really is especially his own mother. "Suddenly my mother seizes hold of my hand and asks falteringly: Was it very bad out there, Paul?(143)" He did not know what to say so he lied to her and said that it was not so bad. Paul could not believe said that. Of course the war was bad, anything is bad when people are dying. He sees that the gap between him and society is getting bigger especially with his mother. Also Paul has no way to describe his experiences, he can not put them into words because the experiences were so horrible

Everyone has been misunderstood at one time or another. It’s part of the human life. Difference. Difference is what brings us together. Paul Fisher is different. In the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, the protagonist, Paul Fisher, is legally blind. Misunderstood his whole life. While he legally cannot see, he can see what others can’t. Or won’t. This has plagued Paul’s life and throws a shadow over his memory. His memory is holding Paul back. He has been told his whole life that he became blind from staring at a solar eclipse for an hour. But he can’t remember it. Paul and his family are now moving to Florida to start a new life. Paul’s zombies are following, waiting to come out of the shadows and finally reveal what they’ve been hiding from Paul. As Paul struggles with the secrets in his family and changing schools, he feels intimidated and misunderstood, but he soon learns that he’s been a coward all his life, but there’s nothing to be afraid of, and he begins to stand up for himself and

Tangerine is a book full of interesting details and ideas. The protagonist, Paul, attempts to remember what happened to his eyesight, and why he must wear thick glasses. After moving to Tangerine, Paul meets new friends and plays his favorite sport, soccer. However, he is constantly overshadowed by the star of his family, Erik. Paul thinks his brother Erik is a jerk, but everybody else sees him as the great football star. In Paul’s mind, he is the person that is not blind, he can see things his parents could not. In the book Tangerine by Edward Bloor, Bloor strategically uses suspense and foreshadowing to portray the theme of standing up to fear.

They play a big role in his life. They teach him that going with the flow might be easy but it is not the right way to deal with problems. On page 38, it states, “I used to tell people that I once stared too long at a solar eclipse. But if that’s the truth, if that really happened, why can’t I remember it? This shows how Paul grows throughout the book. He has always told people that he stared at an eclipse, but then with the assistance of the flashbacks, Paul starts to inquire himself: Does a person have to remember something for it to be true? The solar eclipse ends; the sun shines through the cloud and the blinding truth is

First of all, Paul’s parents have an immense part in creating the way in which Paul thinks about himself throughout the novel. For example in page 94, Bloor quotes, “Mom , you ruined my life at Lake Windsor Middle when you turned in that IEP.” This simple quote thoroughly proves that the act that Paul’s mom performed affected Paul

Every choice has an impact, but it is the reaction of those impacted that determines the final outcome. In the novel Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, paul fisher is impacted by the choices of others everyday including Erik’s choices that impact paul in a horrible way because of paul’s own reactions.

In the novel Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, the character Paul had made many choices that affected others and himself. He made good choices that might have improved something. But he also made many choices that were bad and he really regretted. He also made choices that were bad in the beginning and probably ended up as good choices afterwards.

When he comes home to everyone living perfectly unaffected lives, he feels his life has been flipped upside down. Paul speaks very nostalgically, as if he wishes he could go back to his former self that fit in so well, but now that he has seen so much suffering, he literally “cannot comprehend” the frivolity of their actions.

Paul and his family move from Houston, Texas to Tangerine, Florida. He has a brother named Erik who is a place kicker for the football team at Lake Windsor. On Paul’s first day at Lake Windsor he meets a kid named Joey Costello. When Paul finds out their is a soccer team he automatically thinks he is going to be the starter goaltender. He can’t play for Lake Windsor because of the IEP(his is blind). Then a sinkhole happens,and Paul is happy about that because Erik just lost all of his fans. Paul’s mom wanted him to go to St. Anthony’s,but Paul wanted to go to Tangerine so he could play soccer and be the starting goalie. On the first day of school Dr. Johnson had Theresa show Paul around. Paul met Victor, Tino, and Henry D. Paul and Joey were

We all experience change at one point no matter what. Likewise, most fictional characters like Paul experience change as well. In the novel Tangerine, Luis Cruz’s death acts as a herald to our hero, Paul Fisher.

The name of the novel that I read is called Tangerine and is written by Edward Bloor. Tangerine is about a boy named Paul Fisher who wears bug-eyed glasses to see the world, yet he cannot recall how his vision came to be disabled. The time period in which this novel takes place is modern times. “Ok here we are. How long did it take for Dad to get to his favorite topic, the Erik Fisher Football Dream?”

Do you treat others, as kindly as you would in front of teachers, parents, or elders in general? Well, in the fictional novel, Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, a family of four move from Houston Texas, to Tangerine Florida, for a job for the Dad of the main character, Paul. Paul journaled his adventure from moving from his home town, to a place where he would live in a new house, go to a new school, and meet new friends. But many things happened outside of school, that affected him greatly in his academic, and social life. Paul's older brother, Erik, made many poor choices that incredibly affected Paul.

shows that Paul did not have the courage to stand up for himself and that he was bullied because of his thick glasses. For most of his life, Paul feels like a coward because he doesn’t stand up for himself. On page 263, the quote regarding a flashback about Paul’s glasses, “I turned around and saw Vincent Castor. He was holding a can of spray paint. Then I felt Erik grab me from behind, easily pinning both of my arms with one of his..

Paul's father had abused him emotionally, and probably physically, throughout Paul's life. He did so much to Paul's flagging self-image that he had to boast to others to make himself feel big, when he felt tiny inside. When he finally achieved that "bigness" that he always wanted, the glamour of "the good life," his father found him out and took that away from him, or rather, made Paul give it up. This made Paul feel even smaller and made him feel that he would be better off dead. So Paul decided to make his life "better off" and

The narrator does not find joy in learning, does not have close friendships, and superficially judges the world. According to his wife, he has no friends. “Every night I smoked dope and stayed up as long as I could before I fell asleep”. He has a monotonous life. He is also afraid of the blind man and does not know how to interact with him. The blind man’s eyes creep him out. “I’d always thought dark glasses were a must for the blind. Fact was, I wished he had a pair”. He judges the man based on his look instead of his personality. Even before he met the man, he fixated on the blindness. He also feels pity for