Setting In Tangerine

To begin, the move from Texas to Tangerine Florida introduces new friends into Paul’s life, which tags along clarity, confidence, and brotherhood. For example, the team soccer captain for Tangerine Jr. High, Victor, told Paul after a victory game against the Palmetto

In the novel Tangerine By Edward Bloor, we read about Paul a twelve-year-old boy who struggles with legal blindness, and he also feels neglected by his parents. Paul realizes that his older brother Erik is a cruel and a twisted child. Paul tries to get his parents to see his point of view, but has trouble getting the message to them. Paul and his brother Erik, though related have many differences, but also a few similarities that make them unique characters of interest in the novel.

Imagine living your everyday life in a town named Tangerine, where natural disasters commonly occur. This is the situation that the protagonist, Paul Fisher, has been enduring ever since his family moved to Tangerine, Florida. The novel, Tangerine, written by Edward Bloor, describes how Paul Fisher sees the world through his thick-rimmed goggles due to his damaged eyesight from “staring at an eclipse.” Paul has to be circumspect around bullies and his older brother, Erik, who seems to have dissoluteness living inside of him.

The boys are living in an apartment at the Henry Horner housing complex with their mother, LaJoe, their younger brother and sisters – the triplets, and a constant stream of people from their father Paul to their sister’s boyfriend’s brother staying on and off with them. Henry Horner is a housing

Social location, or the status in life that people have because of their place in a society, have a huge impact on everyone. The impact that social location created could be neutral, but most of the time it will have a positive or negative impact on people. For example, an African American could be discriminated because of his ethnicity, or a patient will choose an older doctor when he needs a treatment. Different social location that we have will affect our decisions in everyday life, and most of the time it happened subconsciously, which means we don’t realize that the decisions we make are based on our social location. Like everyone else, I was affected by my own social location, both positively and negatively.

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.

At the end of Part 1 in the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor it states “ the heavens had opened up for me.” and it means that Paul gets to play goalie again. On page it states “I want to go to Tangerine Middle School, and I want to go with no IEP. " It also states “I wouldn't be the water boy there. I'd be the goalie" on page .

When a young author from New York City decides to take a trip to the southern city of Savannah, he finds himself falling in love with the town and ends up renting an apartment. He encounters many different characters, including Danny Hansford and Jim Williams, that gives the reader a good look into the aura of Savannah. The main conflict in the book occurs when a murder happens in an old mansion located in the town. The book follows the progression of the trial and the outcome following the court’s decision.

Fisher’s choices change his physical being but also his internal thoughts, such as his self concept. Mrs. Fisher decided to let Paul attend Tangerine Middle School instead of Lake Windsor Middle School, “Mom, you ruined my life at Lake Windsor Middle when you turned in that I.E.P., this is your chance to un-ruin it.” (Bloor94). This shows that when his Mom finally made the choice to let Paul move middle schools, it changed the way he viewed himself. At Lake Windsor Middle School, Paul was unable to play soccer because she turned in the I.E.P., which made him ineligible to play. After she made the decision to allow him to change schools, he was able to play soccer for Tangerine Middle School. He questioned, “Will I make the difference between winning and losing for the middle school’s soccer team?” (Bloor22). He now had to be cautious with his words and actions so he did not get in trouble, as he could easily get kicked off the

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The setting in Tangerine, like in any story is, a very important aspect to the plot. There are many reasons that the author may have chosen Tangerine county as the setting for the story. But like other authors there was a purpose. I believe that the author chose this setting because it played well into the story. It had many things that made the story from just a normal kid in middle school to a story that quite frankly, is way more interesting to me as a reader.

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