Tangerine Archetype Analysis

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.

One major conflict I have read the novel “Tangerine,” is when Mike got struck by lightning and killed instantly, as said from the book, this is an example of man vs nature. The piece of evidence that supports that it was man vs nature is, “ He was dead before he hit the ground.” This will affect the plot of the story because at the time Mike was the main character and Joey will always feel sad.The second conflict is when Lake Windsor Middle School had a sinkhole, this is an example of man vs nature because there was a sinkhole which is an example of a natural disaster. The piece of evidence to support this is, “ An earthquake, No! Sinkhole.” This piece of evidence affects the plot because Paul has a decision to go to Tangerine Middle or stay

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.

Antoine and Luis are mentors to Paul, who is the hero, because they are both positive figures, who motivate Paul. For instance, when Paul was over at Tino’s house working on the science project, he was told that Luis used to play soccer, too. Luis was also handicapped so he didn’t understand how. Tino then told Paul that Luis had to be the goalie. Paul thought Tino was trying to make fun of him, but he wasn’t. The text states, “I looked at Tino to see if he was mocking me. He wasn’t. He was just making conversation” (Bloor 175). In other words, Paul really thought that Tino was making fun of him. This conversation helped Paul realize that he could still play soccer with his loss of eyesight if Luis can play with a knee injury. The word “mocking” adds a negative tone to this quote, but it also helps show how this helps Paul. In addition to Luis, Antoine helps motivate Paul, too. For example, Paul had gotten a call from Joey, Paul’s best friend, saying that Antoine was at Mr. Donnelly’s, a newspaper journalist, house. Paul rode down to see what was happening. When he got there, they were outside. Antoine came down and looked at

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 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.

She turned to him and said, ‘You’re Mike’s brother, aren’t you?’ He said, ‘Yeah’.... Then he pointed at me and said, ‘And this is Erik’s brother.’”. This excerpt might seem small, but it also shows Paul’s adaptability as well. It shows that he’s also somewhat accepted in Lake Windsor Downs, since Joey, one of the popular kids at school, is walking him around and being his friend. He’s also well known in the school if only because of his brother Erik Fisher, who’s the best kicker on the football team and is also known as ‘Mr. Generosity’ since he gave out jewelry that he stole from people. This means Paul is also adapted well to society in the upper echelons of it, in the rich kid school where people are wealthy and there isn’t really any diversity. It just shows how Paul is accepted in the rich kid school, as well as the poor kid school, which is much more tough and harder on people than Lake Windsor

Our first instinct when change is near to intertwining with our lives is to run away from the monster that might turn our lives around in seconds. Nevertheless, Edward Bloor tackles this belief in his novel Tangerine with his own unique perspective, that change could result to a new start or adventure if we are willing to accept it into our lives. The novel Tangerine follows the perspective of Paul Fisher:an aspiring soccer star, the supposedly imperfect younger brother of golden boy Erik Fisher, and legally blind. Most people would assume being blind is Paul's worst burden, but with Paul moving to Tangerine,Florida to be in the shadows of his older football star destined brother yet again, who in reality is a bully, might just top Paul's problem

In the end he got a role, but he expresses distress about Ross' pet monkey, Marcel. From this episode, I can consider about Joey's identity. Kaplan () stated that ~~~ Here Joey gives a good example of ~~~~. While he performs as a television character, the monkey appears in popular advertisements

He is working with commies, shoots people and driven by the potential wealth. Whenever the camera was on Joey the viewer could see his greed in his eyes and see him sweat at times. Skip is also greedy at times tired of just getting by. He wants 10 thousand dollars for the piece of film that he unintentionally pickpocketed. He just throws Candy off of him and is upset that he would get anything less.

but he actually just cares about himself. Joey wants to date Bianca so he makes a bet with Patrick to take her sister Kat out so he can date Bianca. Kat and Patrick have a love hate relationship with each other. They can’t stand each other. She later finds out that he was paid to go out with her

Towards the end of the film Joey says, “(Jimmy) raised their expectations of life, (Jimmy) lifted their horizons”. The band acts as an escape for many of the characters, one example being Jimmy, who uses the band

Joey is trying to bribe him with even more money to get him to take Kat to prom. Patrick says to him “ You know what?  I’m sick of playing your little game.” Joey gives him more money until he reluctantly gives in. Patrick still really doesn’t want to keep lying to Kat, but agrees only to get Joey off of his back and because the money was hard to deny.

The difference in Joey and Topthorn, could have been used to highlight Joey’s innocence, and by doing this it make the audience feel sympathy towards Joey. I believe that the puppets were used so that they can re-invent the ordinary and make the audience feel sympathy towards an inanimate object that was doing things that it wasn’t meant or designed to do.

Tangerines is a movie about finding humanity and respect during a time of ethnic conflict. Ethnicity is the major focus of this film, with the smaller scale hatred and resentment between the Chechen Ahmed and Georgian Nika set in the context of the war between Georgia and Abkhazia for Abkhazian separation. The Estonian Ivo helps Ahmed and Nika set aside their ethnic differences to realize that they are both human beings. This film shows the Soviet Legacies on ethnic conflict within the current Post-Soviet space.