Tangerine By Edward Bloor Character Analysis

In the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor Erik Fisher, Paul Fisher’s older brother, causes Paul to be bullied, less afraid of him, and more mature. Throughout the book Erik Fisher makes many decisions that cause Paul to be stronger and more mature. Erik does this by causing Paul to be bullied, causing Luis Cruz’s death, and betraying Paul’s trust.

Paul’s parents and Erik create many problems for Paul, and it makes it difficult for him to uncover his true self. Paul’s parents don’t pay attention to what Erik truly is, but are also absorbed in his high school football career. Dad said,” You’re saying that I know everything about Erik’s season and nothing about yours. Your right, and I’m sorry.” (Bloor pg.234) But Erik also creates problems

“But, I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that my Mom and Dad can’t see and won’t see.”(page number 4). In the novel ‘Tangerine’, by Edward Bloor, the protagonist, Paul Fisher moves to Tangerine, Florida with his family. Paul is legally blind and is curious about how he became blind. As the book proceeds, he learns more about his past and the secrets that his parents have kept from him. The eclipse symbolizes the hidden truth; the sun is represented as the truth and the moon is his parents the secrets they held. But nothing lasts forever. Not even an eclipse. Sooner or later, it ends and the sun is revealed just like the truth is in the book Tangerine.

“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.

The final event is when Victor accepts Paul and welcomes him to the team. Before this happens, the War Eagles win the game and Paul also punches a kid who put mud in his goggles. The story says “if you're a War Eagle, you're a War Eagle. You got brothers to back you up.” (pg. 124). This quote is important because it shows how Victor has now truly accepted Paul into the team and the group. This shows the topic friendship because it shows how victor was very “iffy” about Paul at the start but now believes that they are now friends and that Paul has a backup. Overall this evidence suggests, that Victor now likes and trusts Paul enough to say that he is on the team.

Tangerine is a book full of mystery, secrets, and danger. In the novel Tangerine, the protagonist, Paul, goes through many changes. He moves to Tangerine, Florida, goes to a new school, meets new people, and makes new friends. Later on in the story, he overcomes his fear of his brother, also the antagonist, Erik. Paul as well struggles to find out how he lost part of his vision. In the novel, Tangerine, Edward Bloor creatively uses flashback and symbolism to reveal the theme, growth and change.

To begin with, Edward Bloor uses flashbacks to show the progress of growth and change in Paul. For example,”I used to tell people that I once stared too long at a solar eclipse.But if that's the truth,if that really happened,why can't I remember it?(39)”.Also, another quote is, “ I’ve always been afraid of Erik. Now I get to be afraid of Erik and Arthur(42)”.The quotes are from Paul’s thoughts momentarily after his flashback at the bus stop where Erik told everyone that Paul was blind because he looked at the solar eclipse without glasses. Paul is used to believing the solar eclipse is the real reason of why he's blind, even though he doubts he would ever be that careless, but he feels the pressure from his parents and Erik

Would you tackle an adult to save your friend, I mean a trusted adult like a coach? Well Paul Fisher from the book Tangerine by Edward Bloor did just that. He tackled his former coach to save his friend.

The book Tangerine by Edward Bloor is filled with many excited and unusual things. In the book Tangerine, Paul Fisher and his family move to Tangerine County, Florida. Paul always seems to be afraid of his older brother, Erik Fisher. Erik acts nice and polite in front of people but in reality Erik is cruel. Throughout the novel, Paul has flashbacks which help him figure out what had happened to his eyes when he was a little kid.

Secrets in Tangerine The definition of secret is “something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others” (Unknown). Secrets are a crucial part of the dramatic, young adult-fiction novel, Tangerine written by Edward Bloor. Tangerine is placed in Tangerine County Florida. Paul Fisher is the main character and Mr. and Mrs. Fisher, his brother Erik and his friend Arthur are valuable to the story as well.

Unexpectedly, Paul laughs and giggles uncontrollably while recounting the details of his death and twice it is revealed that he is truly “scared to death.” Through the unsettling and unexpected reaction of laughter in response to tragedy, the reader experiences the fragility of Paul’s emotional state and a sense of urgency for resolution to his internal turmoil develops within the reader. Unfortunately, the author’s purpose in the last line of the story indicates Paul’s physical and emotional quest to conquer his fear will continue and the terror of war will not be erased.

This all started when paul became a Nazi. He did this to spite his father who was a strict man who thought what the Nazi's were doing was wrong.He taught what they were doing was wrong to,but he hated his father with a passion.He goes through the Nazi training and became a soldier under an unnecessarily strict commander like his

While there is no revelation of Paul's behavior or his personal understanding of the world around him, there is simply his initial comprehension of what he sees and how he gets what he wants and then the end. This is incredibly representative of someone who is severely depressed because at that point they only see the world as a horrible place where everyone is out to get them and they believe that things are perfect outside of their lives, and the world is crashing down on them and them alone. Thus, up until the end of the story his temperament is very predicting of what is to come and leads him to suicide as is often anticipated in cases like this where the individual does not recognize the issue and does not wish to improve their lives. One behavior that is indicative of his temperament is how he is a compulsive liar, and does this for attention from his peers who, at his age, are the most important people in the world where their opinions are all that matters. Paul creates these extravagant stories and will tell them over and over again until his peers become uninterested and then he makes up something else new.

As the main character and the narrator, Paul is the centre figure in the novel. Through the novel, his personality is different to how he normally would be because of the way the war forces him to behave. Before the war, Paul was a very different person to how he is during the war. Before the war, Paul was a caring and sensitive man. He loved his family and would also write poetry. But now, like many of the other soldiers, he quickly learns to turn off his mind and to hide his feelings. He keeps his emotions hidden to keep his sanity and to survive. He is no longer able to mourn the dead.

4.) Paul was easily willing to cut ties with his family, because he never felt like he belonged, or fit in with them. He felt alone and humiliated in his home town. In New York, he felt himself for the first time. He felt free to be who he was without judgement. “Everything was quite perfect; he was exactly the kind of boy he had always wanted to be” (Cather 96). “He felt now that his surroundings explained him. Nobody questioned the purple, he had only to wear it passively” (Cather