Symbolism In Tangerine

Everyone wants to dive in to a juicy book right?Well Tangerine is the perfect novel to read.The novel’s theme is Loyalty and facing your fears.The novel is about a boy named Paul Fisher.He recently moved to Tangerine,Florida with his family.He has an interesting life,he is legally blind and has to wear coke bottle glasses ,his brother ,Erick,who constantly bullies him and he has parents who are blinded with lies.In the novel Tangerine, the author,Edward Bloor,uses flashbacks and symbolism to represent loyalty and overcoming your fears.

When Danny had hit the baseball, “My [Reuven] glasses had shattered...felt a sharp pain in my left eye when I blinked”(Potok 33). The “shattered glasses” symbolize the hatred between the two enemies, Danny and Reuven, will be broken, and Reuven’ perception has changed, leading to a friendship. As Reuven got home from the hospital, Reuven walked around his house “watching the sunlight and listening to the sounds on the street outside…tasting the room and the sunlight and the sounds” (Potok 96). Ever since Reuven’s eye accident and encountered Billy’s blindness, Reuven has developed an appreciation the gift of perception as he describes “watching,” listening to,” and “tasting” the world around him. Not only Reuven’s accident enhanced his physical awareness that was surrounding him, but also the symbolism of the world’s suffering and difficulty. On the day that Danny and Reuven were about to separate pathways, “we [Reuven and Danny] shook hands and I [Reuven] watched him walked away quickly, tall, lean and bend forward with eagerness and hungry for the future.” Reuven emphasizes his subjective perception of Danny’s departure of vision, touch and taste. This multisensory perspective reflects the way Reuven’s perspective has broadened, which symbolize Danny and Reuven

Tom Brady once said, “Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept people or situations.” In the book, Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, Paul Fisher discovers his true potential when he and his family move to Florida. Additionally, Erik Fisher’s (Paul’s brother) choices and consequences greatly affect Paul’s development as a valuable person. Erik’s choices are seen as disgusting, sly, and evil through the eyes of Paul Fisher himself and are not only frightening, but shocking as well. Through clever symbols and motifs, the author reveals and expresses through Paul’s journal

Film exists in layers of physical existence and reality. You have the layer the audience views of the film’s world - setting, characters, and plot - and then you have the layer the film production workers view of the film’s world - actors, the set, and the story. Like photography, film is able to establish a physical existence. However, unlike photography, film uses two very unique and different techniques in order to establish its physical existence. According to Siegfried Kracauer, film establishes its physical existence through representation of reality as it evolves through time and with the help of techniques and devices exclusive to cinema cameras (Kracauer 187). All the world is a stage for film, however Kracauer lists specific techniques of film he refers to as cinematic due to how these techniques are read on the cinematic medium. Although Kracauer wrote his theory on Establishment of Physical Existence in 1960, the 2015 movie Tangerine contains a fair amount of content that can be serviced as examples in order to support Kracauer’s theory. Using the 2010’s movie Tangerine directed by Sean S. Baker, modern cinema examples from various scenes of the film can be provided for examples on Siegfried Kracauer’s theory of Establishment of Physical Existence through cinema’s recording functions of nascent motion, cinema’s revealing function of transients, and cinema’s revealing function of blind spots of the

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.

When Paul first moves to Tangerine, he is outcast, but as his confidence buildS, he learns to be a leader. He changed from being a shy kid to a brave boy who stands up for what he believes. As Paul struggles with relationship, he feel like a victim, but soon he learns confidence and he begins to stand up to his family.

Symbolism is commonly used in many books, movies, etc. To put it simply, symbolism is when some sort of object or idea is used to symbolize feelings or emotions. For instance, bad weather can be used to symbolize a character’s feelings of sadness. In the novel “Tangerine”, symbolism is used many different times, but a prominent example in the novel is when Mr. Donnelly, a side character in the story, uses an imaginary porcelain plate to symbolize a local record he broke. As seen on Pages 274 and 275 in “Tangerine”, “So whenever I thought about the record, which was often, I imagined a fine porcelain plate…

Did you ever want to see the truth about everyone and understand what they mean? In the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor the themes seeing and truth is expressed. "But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that Mom and Dad can't. Or won't." These are Paul's words and they foreshadow what's to come. In other words, Paul’s parents are underestimating his eyesight and believe that Paul is only a handicap kid that needs assistance with everything. In addition to that Paul has an older brother named Erik, he’s the star of the show. Paul’s parents think of Erik as the golden child, but in reality Erik is a psychopath that wants to kill Paul, sadly only Paul sees Erik’s inner demon. All in all, Paul isn’t relevant in his family and his

In the book Tangerine by Edward Bloor, the motif of brotherhood conveys the theme that all actions have consequences. The first person who pays for their actions is Erik. Erik orders Arthur, his crony, to hit Luis atop his head, this caused Luis to have an aneurysm and die. Paul, Erik's brother, saw Erik order Arthur to hit Luis and later told Luis’ brother, Tino, about what he saw. Erik believed he had everything under control and thought nothing of the consequences, until later on in the book when Tino avenged Luis’ death. “Tino brought his right leg up and around in a vicious karate kick that doubled Erik over” (Bloor 258). Erik had finally received his consequence for, essentially, murdering Luis. In addition, Erik also pays for stealing

In the novel tangerine, the motif is used both literally and figuratively in several characters. For instance, Mom sees that Paul has horrible eyesight and thinks she is helping Paul by assigning him and IEP, but she doesn't see that it is affecting his social life in a negative way. Dad sees Eric as a huge football hero, but he doesn’t see that Eric has an awful, secret personality. This affects him and his relationship with his parents and brother in an extremely non-positive way. Also this affects his views and opinions on social life, friends, and school. The Fisher parents doesn't see the important things according to Paul.

" In Tangerine, it seems anything is possible ( Tangerine ) " In the novel, Tangerine, a lot of peculiar things happen, and the Fisher family, including the main character, Paul, moved right into the weird mess. In this novel, all of the characters make choices and, of course, those choices have consequences. Whether they are good or bad. The people that surround Paul have made some choices that have heavily impacted Paul's life. Some are that Mr. and Mrs. Fisher allow Paul to attend Tangerine Middle School, that Paul almost got kicked out of a soccer game, and that Louis Cruz confronted Erik, Paul's brother, after Erik back-handed Tino.

The book Tangerine is a book filled with drama, action, and friendship. It is about a boy named Paul, that lives in Tangerine, Florida and he has problems with his eyes. His brother, Erik, is mean to Paul and his friend, but Erik is different around his parents and other adults and everyone treats Erik like a king. Later on in the story, Paul has a flashback of when he lost his eyesight and Paul founded out that Erik and his friend sprayed spray paint into Paul’s eyes. Also, Erik and his new friend Author have been robbing people’s houses when they were getting tented for bugs. In the novel, Tangerine Edward Bloor uses flashback and symbolism yo visualize the values of truth.

Have you ever wondered how stressed out a person can be? Thats Paul he deals with a lot in this book. He has his mind everywhere and no one understands him, he doesn't understand people. In Edwards Bloors novel Tangerine, Paul's choices and the consequences of his choices affected the development of him because he wasn't able to fit in with his peers or understand what was wrong with the people in his community. This essay will be about how Paul’s life is good,bad,and different.

To begin with, the author Edward Bloor, uses flashbacks to convey the theme of change. For example, in this quote from page 263-264, Paul says “... I remembered Erik’s fingers prying my eyelids open while Vincent Castro sprayed white paint into them.” Then again on page 265, Paul's father says, “ The doctors told us that you might never remember...We wanted to find a way to keep you from hating your brother.” Paul's answers “ So you figured it would be better if I just hated myself ? ” Paul's mother and Father lied to him and told him that he damaged his own eyes- By staring at a solar eclipse- but in reality Erik and his friend, Castro, ruined Paul’s eyes. Paul remembers what happened and becomes angry. Changing the way Paul feels about Erik and his parents. This flashback conveys the theme of change because, Paul's feelings about his family have changed. His feelings have changed because of

The novel is told in first person by Ethan Wate. Ethan is a typical 16 year-old boy growing up in Gatlin with his parents until his mom passed away the previous summer. His dad had gone mad and was sent to a mental hospital in town. He lives with Amarie Treadeau, nicknamed and better known