How Does Bloor Present The Theme Of Tangerine Change Throughout The Novel

Overall in the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor Erik Fisher makes many decisions that have both positive and negative effects on Paul Fisher. Erik’s decisions cause Paul to be bullied, be less afraid of Erik, and become more mature. Erik does this by bullying

Tangerine is a novel about a boy, named Paul, who moves to a strange city, seemingly where anything could happen. There, he strives to become accustomed to his new environment and tries to figure out the single most prominent mystery of his life - how he had come to wear the Coke-bottle glasses on his eyes. Paul deals with multiple flashbacks, occasionally traumatic recurrences of his past, which helps him unravel the secret his family has been keeping from him. As Erik, Paul’s superstar brother and whose shadow Paul has always stood in, wreaks havoc upon the inhabitants of Tangerine, it tests the relationships of Paul and his newfound friends. In the novel, Tangerine, the author Edward Bloor makes notable use of flashback and symbolism to

“Stop letting people walk all over you. You 're not a sidewalk.” This is a quote that applies to the life of Paul Fisher. Paul Fisher is a 13-year-old character played in the novel, Tangerine by Edward Bloor. Paul, who moved from Texas to Tangerine County located in Florida was disabled. His disability of being legally blind has been the shadow of his life. Paul has an older brother named Erik Fisher, a mother named Mrs. Fisher, and a father Mr. Fisher. Erik is the star kicker for Tangerine High School. All of Paul’s life, Erik had been the fearful, scary older brother to Paul. In Edward Bloor’s novel Tangerine, Paul’s brother Erik, has a negative impact on Paul throughout the novel, but will his fear for Erik change throughout the novel?

Edward Bloor made Paul seem like that quiet and more to himself kind of kid but he’s actually the one who sees what’s going on around him and everyone else. On page 64 it says, “I said to myself, There goes another one of your koi, Mr.Costello”. This texts shows that Paul is actually seeing the truth of the osprey taking their community fish but the homeowners are assuming that people are taking the fish and selling them. But instead of not telling anyone about the osprey and the koi fish he just sits back and doesn’t say anything. In the beginning Paul is invisible to everybody and nobody listens to him because he’s that “blind” kid that people ignore at first.

One of the greatest football coach named Knute Rockne once said, “One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.” In the novel Tangerine, the novel show sportsmanship when a visually impaired child named Paul moves to new home in Tangerine florida. He plays soccer while his brother Erik is seen as a football star. He finds out about the secrets about Tangerine, Florida and also find out the secrets about his past that his family has been hiding from him for far too long.. The novel shows how the characters show sportsmanship to other characters in the story. In the novel Tangerine, Edward Bloor uses the motif of sportsmanship to show that show sportsmanship doesn’t always mean you are a good athlete.

Many characters made careless choices in the book that affected Paul but Eric made the most. In the book Tangerine, Eric’s choices and the consequences of his choices affected the development of Paul in three ways. When Eric hit Tino and when Paul figured out that Eric was the reason he was blind. Paul is a boy who just moved from Texas to Florida. He moves to a place called Lake Windsor Downs. He goes to school at Lake Windsor Downs Middle School, but there was a tragedy at that school so he moved to Tangerine Middle School. He goes out for the Tangerine soccer team and makes it. Then horrible things start happening.

Not only does Luis Cruz’s choices substantially affect Paul’s development in Tangerine, but he impacts Paul’s personality and choices too. To explain, one of the countless choices Luis chooses is to talk to Erik about punching his younger brother: “Erik and his group had gathered up their gear and were preparing to leave. Luis stood in their path, like the brave sheriff of a town full of cowards” (Bloor 211). When Luis decides to stand up to Erik, Paul is influenced to be undaunted by his elder brother. Continuing, Luis also improves Paul’s life by showing him his family’s tangerine nursery: “He said, ‘Look around you. This is a nursery’” (Bloor 164). As Paul journeys through the nursery, he becomes passionate about the trees and loves the

Erik had pried open Paul’s eyes while Vincent Castor spray painted Paul’s eyes. Erik also sent a command of murder on one of Paul’s friends.And Erik had slapped Tino in the face nearly knocking him out. And finally Erik had made his own brother fear him by threatening and showing him his true side. In this essay you will read about how Erik’s choice’s affected Paul’s throughout his life living in Tangerine.

Therefore, after the Cruz family and Paul near the end of fighting “The Freeze”, Luis tell Paul, “‘I’m just telling you this so you’ll know. You seem kinda scared of Erik and Arthur Bauer.’ ‘Yeah. I am. Who wouldn’t be?’... Luis’s uncle walked up and started talking to him, so I drifted back inside, thinking about my fear of Erik. How could I be so totally afraid, and Luis not be the slightest bit afraid, of the exact same thing?’(229) Paul becomes aware that not everyone is afraid of Erik and he begins to question his own beliefs about his feelings towards his brother. It puts into perspective that his “big and scary” problems are not such great conflicts when one takes the initiative to stand up to them. This influences Paul to lose his trepidation for when he confronts Erik. It reduces Erik’s power over keeping Paul silent when he witnesses his older brother committing something unlawful. Adding to that, after being reminded of a familiar name, Castor, and white spray paint, Paul analyzes what really led to the beginning of his terrible eyesight. He confronts his parents and they say, “‘You were five years old, Paul. There was only so much you could understand. All you could understand was that something bad had happened… I was so terrified that you would

First, Paul experiences a growing understanding of his friends. Such as Victor who plays a major character when Paul moves to Tangerine Middle School. Paul’s first impression of Victor is demonstrated when he says, “‘Lake Windsor?-that team’s a joke man. We’re gonna bust you up this year. You got that big Italian kid, right? Think he’s bad? He’s a joke, man. He’s nothin’. And the rest of you guys?... That makes you less than nothing’. Less than zero. That’s you Lake Windsor Man. Less than zero . You’re a negative integer’”(106). “‘ Listen, Fisherman, here it is. If you’re gonna play with us, then you’re gonna play with us. Do you understand?’ I nodded. ‘If you’re a War Eagle then you’re a War

In Tangerine, you would think that one bad event after another it would be the last, but Paul is just prone to bad luck happening to him. In the book, Paul has to deal with bad choices to sinkholes happening in the middle of his school's soccer field. The choices made by Erik and paul's mom have a huge effect on Paul.

Secondly, Paul experiences a growing understanding of his family. When Paul and his mom first move into Tangerine his mom doesn’t see the beauty of the area. She says, “‘Good Heavens! Look at that.’ Black smoke was pouring from a huge bonfire of trees” (8-9). Paul’s mom immediately notices the negative things in the area and doesn’t see the positive things. Also it affects how Paul sees things because his mom is changing how he thought of the place by saying negative things. On the other hand Mom and Dad don’t see the consequences of their actions when lying to Paul about his eyesight. Dad said, “‘The doctors told us that you might never remember. And we figured that that was the best way to handle the situation,” He shook his head sadly.’ We wanted to find a way to find a way to keep

In the beginning of the book, when eating dinner, dad talks about the Erik Fisher Football Dream. Paul abnormally asks, “How long did it take dad to get to his favorite topic, the Erik Fisher Football Dream?” (11) The quote shows how dad doesn’t have a sight/thought for Paul, and only cares about Erik. Dad is unable to realize that he doesn’t support Paul, thus leaving Paul feeling unnoticed and unimportant. Of course, Paul is also feeling neglected by other members of the family, especially Erik. “I remembered Erik prying my eyes open while Vincent sprayed white paint into them” (263-4). The quote makes the reader realize that Erik doesn’t see Paul as a kind brother. Instead Erik sees Paul as a little pest who means nothing to him, thereby treating Paul with a non caring attitude. The examples both use sight as a factor that is missing. This can greatly interfere with the character’s understanding of each

Paul struggles to remember why he has to wear his “coke-bottle glasses.” In the novel, Tangerine, Edward Bloor wisely uses flashbacks and symbolism to display the theme of growth and change. To start off, Edward Bloor uses flashbacks to show the theme of growth and change. On Page 262-263, “Erik was still in rage. He was talking to Arthur Bauer, but he was staring at me when he roared,

In Edward Bloor’s Tangerine, Paul, the main character, makes choices that affect him greatly, because he gets hurt physically, he gets expelled, he gets rid of feeling scared of his older brother Erik, and he finds out a secret his family has been hiding from him for his whole life. In this story, the main character's family moves from Texas to Florida because Paul's father gets a new job as the Deputy Director of Civil Engineering. As the days go by, he notices some very unusual things about his new home in Tangerine. On November 4th, Paul makes the choice to confess to Tino that he “ratted” him and his friends out.