Tangerine Literary Analysis

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.

Tangerine by Edward Bloor is a book about family, friends, and trust. If you like those things, you’ll probably like this book. It covers things such as loss, making new friends, moving and having to switch everything, and people not being who you thought they were. These are topics everyday people deal with, which is why Tangerine is such a great book. The main characters are relatable and I found myself loving the characters as I read the book. Tangerine is dramatic and exciting, two very popular things in books all over the world in every genre. Tangerine by Edward Bloor is a very good book that has been nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Young Adult. It is an engrossing novel with diverse characters.

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

Paul and Erick were the main characters and I chose them because they have a typical sibling relationship where there is arguments and rivalries. However, they do show the dysfunctional side of family life when there is competition, lack of discipline, and unresolved conflicts in the home. Although Paul and Erik are different they too have similarities such as Paul and Erick both play a sport that involve their feet and hands. Erick plays football and Paul plays soccer (he is a goalie). They both are from Texas and moved to Tangerine, Florida. This novel to be quite

“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership”- Harvey S. Firestone. In the book Tangerine, seventh-grader Paul Fisher just recently moved to Tangerine County, Florida because of his dad’s new engineering job. He lives with his two parents and his antagonizing brother, Erik Fisher, who is constantly bullying him. As time flies by, Paul transforms into a new character. Paul Fisher’s choices he made during his development truly shaped who he is now because he finally got the courage to tell the truth about Erik and Arthur, assaulted a staff member, and chose to go to Tangerine Middle School.

Imagine waking up every morning smelling smoke from a muck fire that will never go away. In the book, Tangerine by Edward Bloor, the main character, Paul Fisher, faces many choices that affect him in positive and negative ways. Paul is a young boy that has the struggle of moving from Houston, Texas to Tangerine, Florida. This can be a hard change for anybody. Paul makes many decisions that affect himself. First, he tells the police on Erik for being involved with the death of Luis Cruz, two he choses to go to Tangerine Middle school because he did not need an iep anymore so he had the opportunity to play soccer, and finally he decides to jump on coach Warner’s back . The choices Paul makes, and the consequences of those choices, affect the development of his character.

On page 269 , Edward Bloor expresses the quote “the truth shall set you free”.For example , have you told someone when you did something bad? It’s better to tell the truth than keeping it in. This quote means to me that it’s better to tell the truth because your going to keep thinking about it and it’s going to be hard for you, but if you expose the truth to everyone, then you will have more confidence that makes you feel you don't have to worry about anything.The people who do bad stuff know it’s bad but they don't tell people that they do it and some days, they want to but they don't.You should always tell the truth.

Choices of Erik Have you ever had a close family member or friend affect you and your family by the choices they have made? Well in the novel Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, the main character throughout the book is named Paul Fisher, and him and his family were all affected by the choices that the character Erik has made “Erik is Paul’s brother that is highly invested in following his football dreams to play for Lake Windsor High School’s football team” (Bloor 22). This explains who Erik Fisher is. Throughout most of the novel Erik has not made life easy for Paul Fisher, he bullies and lies to him on multiple occasions. Erik Fisher’s choices impact Paul by making Paul not wanting to be in the same world as Erik, making Paul not feel special

Have you ever felt that twist and turn in your stomach as if you were about to be murdered by a maniac? Well in the book “Tangerine” by Edward Bloor there’s a lot of situation to deal with Fear, Heroism, and Seeing. Seeing is the most important of them all because seeing the truth has a very important meaning in this book. The main character Paul shows all the themes of the book but mostly fear.

The main character Paul knows that his older brother Erik is a murderer. Paul sees that Erik is bad when everyone else around him thinks that he is a star. On page 3 it states “I burst through the front door, crying hysterically. My goggles were twisted around my head. I spun around looking for Mom. Then Mom and Dad were both in front of me holding my shoulders, trying to calm me down, trying to understand the word I was saying over and over. It was “Erik.” I was saying “Erik.” Dad finally understood. He looked right in my eyes and asked. Erik? Erik what Paul? I stammered out Erik tried to kill me.” This shows that others, even his parents, are oblivious to Erik’s bad behavior.

“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.

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

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 .

Determination is a key part of life because it can get you through tough situations. It is easy to give up in hardships, but determination is so much more important. In NightJohn by Gary Paulsen, readers realize that though they may be in a tough situation, determination can get them through it and achieve your goals.

Wright further explores iterations of blindness through situational unawareness. During the discussion of division, Wright explains how “[Bigger’s family] wanted and yearend to see life in a certain way; [...] there was one way of living they preferred above all others; and [were] blind to what did not fit.” (Wright 106) Bigger’s murder being the way of life that did not fit. Wright shows this divide by the family not being able to see Bigger, who Wright has moved to a new identity. Write then makes the family unable to “see”