How Paul's Choices Affects The Character Of Paul In Tangerine

Paul was about to start school at Lake Windsor Middle School and Mrs. Fisher tapped in on her ‘overprotective mother’ side. In the book Tangerine, Edward Bloor writes, “ ‘Mom, you ruined my life at Lake Windsor Middle when you turned in that IEP,’ ” (94). This shows that Paul really was miserable without the ability to play soccer. He was so sad that, when his Coach told him about the insurance problem, Paul sat down on the field and cried. It actually says in the book that when he had the opportunity to start over at Tangerine Middle, he thought that, “...the heavens had opened up for me…” (94). This is important because Paul would have been able to play soccer at Lake Windsor, and he would have, at the very beginning, been happy. This choice, though, had good effects in many ways. One is that he ended up going to Tangerine, which is where he ended up playing

The soccer field is important to Paul because playing soccer is his passion and the soccer field is where he finds his almost only confidence. When Paul is on the soccer field, he doesn’t care about Erik or his parents, or anything else going on in his life. It’s just him, his teammates, and the sport. For example, “War Eagles! War Eagles!” We started moving our hands in unison, up and down, changing the chant into the frenzied cry of “War! War! War!” This evidence shows how Paul was just happily shouting along with his teammates, not focusing on anything or anybody else.

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

In conclusion, the choices made by the fisher family in Tangerine affected Paul greatly by making him feel fear, unimportant and gave him a low self

Coming to Tangerine Middle was “quite the ride” for Paul. Paul was able to see how the Tangerine students are really like to compare to the dirty image that they have on them. First of all, transferring to this school has made Paul develop confidence in himself to speak the truth, which builds up a strong relationship with his teammates. Yet Paul still can’t get over his main fear, Erik. Although it may look like Paul grew an enormous amount, mentally in the novel, he still has a long way to go in order to face Erik. At the end of Part 2, Edward Bloor expresses Paul’s growth, emotionally in a strong way.

The choices that Erik made throughout his life never came without consequences, many of his choices, whether they were choices directed to him or not, affected Paul. Paul illustrates this idea by saying, “When we moved to Houston, when Erik was eleven, he realized that football was the star attraction,”(Bloor 29) This is talking about the “birth” of the “Erik Fisher Football Dream”; Erik use to play soccer and was successful at it, but he realized that football was the place to be if he wanted attention. Paul could’ve started playing soccer at that time as well and Erik didn’t want to risk being outshined by his younger brother. Another way Erik affected Paul, in a more indirect way, was when Arthur becomes Erik’s crony, “What will Arthur do

In the beginning of Tangerine Paul, doesn’t understand why he has always hated and been scared of his brother, Erik. “Why didn’t I answer the question? I used to have an answer ready for that question.(39). Paul started questioning himself even though he had a story. He didn’t understand why he started to question his story. However later in the story, he starts to remember his story. “I remembered Castor. Vincent Castor… I remembered spray paint on that wall. Erik and Vincent Castor had found a can of white spray paint, and they had painted something… ‘You’re gonna pay for telling on Castor.’”(263). As soon as Paul starts remembering he, finally, starts to understand, see, why. Why he has always been scared, hated and not wanted to confront Erik. He is finally able to uncover truth about himself, and he feels different, happy and brave, now that he

A choice made by Mrs.Fisher that affects paul is when she told Paul's new principal that he was visually impaired and got paul an IEP because of it. Even though Paul has very thick glasses he feels he can

“Life is a matter of choices, and every choice that you make, makes you.” -John C. Maxwell. In the book, Tangerine, Paul had most of his life based off of the decisions his older brother, Erik, made. Erik’s choices impacted Paul by not allowing Paul to feel safe in his own home, causing Paul to become blind, and hurting many of Paul’s friends.

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

First, Paul invited some friends including Tino to his house to work on their project. Once they were done they played soccer outside. After a while, Eric and his friend Arthur came back to the house where they found Paul and his friends playing. Tino went up to Eric after he had insulted him, and said, “A funny guy, yeah. I see you on the TV, and I laugh all the time.” (205) He also says, “Yeah. I really like that thing you do, Funny Guy, when you pretend

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

That reaction gives the reader a good thought on how Paul thinks and feels about his new home and leads them to believe that he is not really confident. After some time things started to get more hopeful for Paul but when everything seem to get better his confident and hope went down the zero. “Coach Walski looked pained. I'm sorry to tell you this, Paul, but you're not eligible for this program.” This was it for paul, all he wanted to do was to play soccer it was his life and for his parents to write the IEP form was the worst thing that ever happened to

In Paul's true reality he has a lack of interest in school. His disinterest in school stems from the alienation and isolation he has in

Paul was a young man. He was getting a teacher’s education. He was a good student and a wonderful sportsman. He lived with his mother, Mrs Burgess, in Belfast. She was quite unsociable and reserved. The first five years of his life Paul had spent in the North of England. He had very good relations with his father, Rees; they loved to spend time together. Later his family moved to Wortley. When they lived there, his father died because of a railway accident. Soon after