Foreshadowing And Motifs In Edward Bloor's Tangerine

Everyone has had someone block them from gaining success. The person writing this has, and so have the readers. But, everyone has had a mentor, or a role model, once in their life. A mentor, in literature, is a mythological archetype. In Edward Bloor’s novel, Tangerine, Antoine Thomas and Luis Cruz fit as the mythological archetype of the mentor.

The compelling novel, Tangerine, written by Edward Bloor is a book packed with secrets and creating memorable friendships. The main character, Paul Fisher moves to Tangerine, Florida because his parents invested in his older brother, Erik Fisher’s dream to become an excellent football player. With problems and difficult situations him and his family encounters, Paul has trouble adjusting to life in Tangerine County, Florida. Paul views the world differently behind his ‘coke bottle’ glasses and discovers that Tangerine is a very unusual place. Paul doesn’t know the reason why he is legally blind and has flashbacks that slowly reveals what is the story behind the thick glasses. Paul joins the soccer team at Tangerine Middle School, and with

Mentors. They can be your parents, older siblings, and even a teacher but in Edward Bloor’s Tangerine, that would be Luis Crews a person he befriends at his new school, Tangerine Middle.

“The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision.” ~Helen Keller . Helen Keller is trying to say that the most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, so the ability to see perfectly, but has no vision, so someone who cannot see beyond what is visible.“ In the novel Tangerine, Edward Bloor uses the motif of sight to show that just because someone can see clearly, it doesn’t mean that they can see the world how it really is.

The novel, Tangerine, written by Edward Bloor, is a story about a middle school student who experiences the changes of moving into a different state, school, and socializing with new people. Paul Fisher, the main character of Tangerine, is starting to question his forgotten past as to why he is now blind.Paul is going on a never ending journey and doing his best to navigate through the maze of life. With problems varying from the death of Mike Costello and Luis Cruz to the unlimited mayhem that Erik Fisher and Arthur Bauer. Will the problems ever cease to exist? In this novel, Tangerine, Edward Bloor skillfully uses symbolism and flashbacks to explore the theme of growth and change.

In each of us, two natures are at war- the good and the evil, and one most conquer. But in our own h

The theme of fear is expressed on pages 65-77 in the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, it talks about Paul being afraid of getting rejected by Kerri Gardner. On page 70 it states “I thought over and over again about what I could have said back to Kerri Gardner”. Also, Paul is afraid to talk to Kerri, on page 69 Paul “just stood there, unable to think of anything to reply”. Then on page 75 it says “I saw Kerri. She was sitting with one of the guys from the group. A guy named Adam. A guy who doesn't wear glasses and knows how to talk.” This evidence describes how Paul feels about Kerri, he obviously likes her. Unfortunately, Paul thinks he’s going to be rejected and he is also extremely self-conscious. Paul being self-conscious is the reason why

Tangerine is a fascinating novel that includes mystery, loyalty, and friendship. The main character, Paul Fisher, and his family decided to move to a new house in Tangerine, Florida for the “Erik Fisher Football Dream”. In his parent’s eyes, especially his father, Erik is the “Golden Child.” Ever since they decided to move to Tangerine, Paul keeps having flashbacks of things that would confuse him. When Paul joins a soccer team at Tangerine Middle School, his teammates help him discover some things that have been happening in his town.

Tangerine Trees The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines symbolism as a representation of abstract or intangible things by means of symbols. There is a lot of this in Tangerine, and every symbol has a different meaning and theme connected to it. The use of this symbolism in the novel has not only created a new way to think of the book, but a web of themes tied to symbols. In the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, a young boy named Paul is held captive by the giant secret surrounding his mysterious eye injury.

One of the themes that shows up in Edward Bloor's novel Tangerine is the fact that sometimes a disaster can sometimes lead to a positive change. The terrible incident that occurred on the day of Monday September, 11 lead to something that Paul wasn’t pleased with. But without a doubt became the best disaster of his life. As the rain thundered on the quaint portables of Lake Windsor Middle School, disturbed both Paul and the community. “The water had puddled up all over the field and began to move, it began to run toward the back of the portables, like someone had pulled a plug out of a giant bathtub.” On that dreadful day of that cloudy afternoon Paul risked his life pulling kids, one by one, out of the mud. With the rain pounding on his back,

“Why couldn't I tell my own parents about Erik? What was wrong with me? What was wrong with all of us?” Edward Bloor was trying to explain that you might be scared by telling the truth because you never know if someone will ever believe you. The main character, Paul, wants his parents to believe him because from past experiences his parents didn’t believe that Paul was actually telling the truth.

I will never forget the day I choked on a tangerine. Remember 4th grade? It's just that grade that you kinda remember but at the same time kinda don’t. But it was still part of elementary school, and who didn’t love elementary school! People weren’t jerks, you got recess, and snack time, it was great! So as you can tell this story goes back to the 4th grade.

The poem Strange Fruit by Abel Meeropol, could be described as dark and graphic, as it embodies Southern violence in America. The poem describes the lynching of black slaves, which was generally presented to an audience of whites. Billie Holiday, a black female artist, would sing the poem to a predominantly upper-class white club. But strangely, the poem was written by a white man, Abel Meeropol. Although the last confirmed lynching was in 1968, there are other forms of racially motivated killings and violence in the United States today such as police brutality and the race riots formed by white supremacist in Charlottesville. White America is linked and always will be to the history of black killings. To understand what some of the lynching’s could have looked like, Meeropol made the poem very vivid with many examples of imagery within it as well as the many dark metaphors he placed throughout the poem.

In contrast, Jacob has spent most of his ‘ordinary’ life listening to his grandfather’s ‘fairy tales’ of mysterious children who can levitate, become invisible, and play host to a swarm of bees. Jacob is about to experience just how extraordinary his life could be… Ransom Riggs expertly crafts eerie anticipation and build-up throughout the story. It is slow, but doesn’t at all drag. Cairnholm reminded me a little of Shutter Island and that’s how I pictured it – perfectly average, in a way, but tinged with a sense of something not quite right. Although you might first assume that Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a horror novel, it is neither horror nor a thriller, but instead a spectacular, bizarre mystery. A highlight of the novel for me was watching everything unravel and become clear to Jacob as well as myself. Who is Miss Peregrine? What happened to the orphanage? What part does Abe play? Halfway through the story, these questions begin to be answered, and it takes us to a world of fantasy and folklore involving the

The short story begins with a description of the neighborhood and its surroundings. He uses dark and cold references when referring to his surroundings and mood, but light and happy remarks when pertaining to Mangan’s sister. He tends to use the settings as a way to demonstrate that. Firstly, he describes the street as “being blind” (107) and from that he gives us the impression that he is not happy about where he lives, and the manner in which the neighborhood is. He refers to the street as a dead end. He is not the typical teenager who is excited about new things, rather he gives negative descriptions that show cases how he views things. He says “The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces” (107). We immediately get a picture setting of cold, scary darkness unexcited place. It is obvious that he is not