How Does Eric Actions Affect Paul In Tangerine

First, a choice made by Paul is when he gave his statement to the police about what he witnessed. He stated, “I saw him do it. I saw Arthur Bauer sneak up on Luiz Cruz like a coward and hit him on the side of the head. Luiz didn’t even see it coming.” This choice helped him develop because he felt as though ever since he met Luiz that he was special and meant something to him, so he needed to tell what actually happened at the high school. The decision was made because Paul belatedly found his voice and was going to speak up for once. The choice plays a major role in the Fisher family considering what will most likely

One decision that caused Paul to be less afraid of Erik is on pages 262-263. On these pages the author says, “He turned and threw the bat into the Land Cruiser. He got in, and Arthur got in, and they drove quickly away.” (Pg 262-263) This makes Paul less afraid of him because he was able to stand up to Erik and Arthur alone without getting hurt by either one of them. This also caused Paul not to be afraid of Erik because it proved to Paul that Erik wasn't so perfect and put together as he thought. Another reason why Paul is not afraid of Erik at the end of the book is on page 284. On page 284 the author states that, “I stood up straight and faced them all, like I had seen Luis do. “I saw- I heard Erik Fisher tell him to do it.”” (Pg. 284) This shows that Paul is less afraid of Erik because he was willing to expose Erik in front of everyone, and tell the complete truth without being afraid that Erik would hurt him in anyway. Erik Fisher causes Paul Fisher to be less afraid of him by losing control and not denying the truth about the bad things he had

One of the cruelest things Erik did in the book was damage Paul’s eyesight. Because of what Erik did, it ruined Paul’s child/teen hood. He couldn’t play on the Lake Windsor soccer team, he got called mean names, and he was seen as “handicapped” by people including his mom. This just shows how much of a sick person Erik is. Erik may be cruel, but Paul is very compassionate. He enjoys helping people. In the story, Paul helped Luis Cruz with his tangerine business. Even though Paul didn’t have to, he chose to fight the freeze and try to save the tangerines with Luis and his family. Paul may have gotten sick and had problems during the freeze, but he fought through it to be with his friends. Based on that, you know that Paul is a true

There are many moments of character development for Paul in the novel Tangerine. Paul grows physically and mentally throughout

In the novel Tangerine, the main character Paul helped Tino and Victor escaped after getting revenge.Everyone knows Paul as a cordial person and he hasn’t done anything bad. Paul faced a conflict and he was smart and knew he had to tell someone.Paul saw Tino and Victor doing something bad and Coach Warner witnessed them. Coach Warner was trying to stop Tino and Victor but Paul tackled Coach and he got caught. They didn’t know what happened, but Paul was smart enough and told the truth. Paul knew if he told a lie , he would deal with it his whole life so he knew if he told the truth, he would have freedom that he is not telling a lie. This proves later on, Paul won’t have to deal with this.

The choice made by Erik that affects Paul, was the choice for Erik to force Arthur to hit Luis on his head with blackjack, killing him. This made Paul angry and breathless. According to the text, “I looked at the blond deputy. The weapon that he [Arthur], used

Fisher paid attention to Erik, even though he had done such a terrible thing to Paul. Overall, Paul’s parents have been telling him a lie his whole life and this made him hate himself. The lie was that he is legally blind because he stared at a Solar Eclipse, but the reason he is legally blind is because Erik and Vincent 's spray painted his eyes. This is emotional for Paul because his whole life he has been led to believe otherwise, but now he hates how his mom, stood up for Erik.

The fire in the old grove was blazing high and wild, scorching the leaves off anything near it. By midnight, we had chopped down four lightning trees. The ice was forming too rapidly in the new grove…”. This whole chapter is filled to the brim with symbolism. It’s very representative of Tangerine as a whole. Up in Tangerine, the people were out there fighting the freeze, fighting for their jobs, fighting for their lives. They could very well have died out there in the freeze trying to save their trees, and they were fighting with their lives. If they weren’t out there, no one else was going to be there, so they had to do something about it. But, the opposite could be said for Lake Windsor Downs. Down in Lake Windsor Downs, they were doing nothing about the freeze. In fact, they were welcoming it with open arms. They didn’t care about the cold, and saw it more of a day off. They all sat inside sipping on their hot cocoa with their slippers on all snuggled up on their couches watching the TV, while Tangerine was fighting for their lives. It also shows something else about Paul. It shows that Paul is more Tangerine than Lake Windsor Downs. Paul deciding to go out there and fight the freeze with the people of Tangerine, instead of sitting home and deciding to give up. It all describes each side

Furthermore, Paul experiences an in depth realization about his friends. In the beginning of Tangerine, as Paul begins his new school, he meets Gino, the captain of the soccer team. Gino is a character that changes in Paul’s eyes. In the beginning Gino had a sour attitude, “You here to play, or you here to model sportswear?”(43) This hostile attitude causes Paul to feel unwelcomed in this new school. As time goes on Gino’s attitude changes and starts to open up to Paul, and sees him in a new light, “Mars, my

A suitable quote conveying this theme is located on page 33-34 when Paul had a flashback when Eric was taunting him on the bus back in kindergarten. The quote states,”He was standing at the front of the school bus line with his fifth grade friends when one of them turned, made a gesture, and called up to me, Hey, eclips boy, how many fingers am I holding up? The fact is we did have an Eclipse that summer, around 3 weeks before school started. Based on that, Eric was telling his friends the story the reason for the coke bottle glasses on my eyes: was that I had stared at the sun, unprotected, during the eclipse.” Paul remembers standing in line at a bus stop as a kindergartener, with a 5th grade Erik and his friends made fun of him.

(as shown on page 262.) On page 262, Erik and Arthur were threatening Paul, but miraculously Paul wasn’t frightened as usual. Instead, he spoke up for himself. He also confronted Arthur and Erik, saying that he saw Arthur murder Luis. On page 263-264 Paul remembered something from his past.

In Edward Bloor’s novel, Tangerine, Erik’s choices and the consequences affected Paul’s life because Erik made illegal and violent choices that made Paul feel ashamed and frightened. Eventually, Paul had to stand up for himself and for others.

The realistic fiction young adult novel, Tangerine, which is written by Edward Bloor, takes the reader through Paul’s 7th-grade year and demonstrates Paul’s problems with his family, friends and himself and how he resolves them. Bloor employs the motif of sight, a repeated element such as an image symbol or a theme in the story, to Pauls development as a person as he finds truths buried under the many lies. Through the motif of sight, Paul the lead in the story experiences a growing understanding of his friends, family and himself. To begin with, in the story Paul experiences a growing understanding of his true friends and his so-called friends. At first, Joey and Gino treat Paul as an outcast and do not see his true value as a soccer player

“ I went downstairs, handed the disk to mom and dad, and said ‘Here’s the whole truth. Here’s what really happened ’” (Bloor 302). In the beginning of the book, Paul was afraid of speaking up to his parents about his brother Erik. When he realizes what his brother and his friend have done to other people he told the police officers and his parents what his brother really did. “The penalty for this and for any other Level Four Infraction is expulsion” (Bloor 294). Towards the end of the book, Paul jumped on a coach's back to stop them from helping his brother. He wanted his brother to be punished for everything he did, but Paul harassed a teacher. Paul is fully developed because like in the other example, he his more brave than he has ever been. Erik got in trouble for what he did and so did Paul. He got expelled from Tangerine Middle School and transferred to St.

After being forced to leave his job as an usher at Carnegie Hall Paul gets a job working at Denny and Carson's office firm. He gets the money to go to New York City by taking the money he was supposed to deposit in the bank from Denny and Carson's deposit and pockets it. Paul arrives in New York and lives the luxurious life by buying fancy clothes and checking into a nice hotel. After eight days in New York his fun runs out when he discovers in the Pittsburgh papers that his father had reimbursed the firm and was coming to get him. "Paul had just come in to dress for dinner; he sank into a chair, weak to the knees, and clasped his head in his hands. It was worse than jail, even; the tepid waters of Cordelia Street were to close over him finally and forever" (Cather 11). After succeeding