Tangerine Paul Character Analysis

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.

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.

Do relatives or friends choose poor choices? In the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, character choices affect the main character, Paul Fisher. He is a visually impaired student who attended two middle schools in Tangerine County, Florida. He was influenced by other people around him. In fact, Erik, his brother, impacted Paul’s life largely by his choices. Erik’s choices affected Paul in many ways.

In Tangerine, you would think that one bad event after another it would be the last, but Paul is just prone to bad luck happening to him. In the book, Paul has to deal with bad choices to sinkholes happening in the middle of his school's soccer field. The choices made by Erik and paul's mom have a huge effect on Paul.

“ I went downstairs, handed the disk to mom and dad, and said ‘Here’s the whole truth. Here’s what really happened ’” (Bloor 302). In the beginning of the book, Paul was afraid of speaking up to his parents about his brother Erik. When he realizes what his brother and his friend have done to other people he told the police officers and his parents what his brother really did. “The penalty for this and for any other Level Four Infraction is expulsion” (Bloor 294). Towards the end of the book, Paul jumped on a coach's back to stop them from helping his brother. He wanted his brother to be punished for everything he did, but Paul harassed a teacher. Paul is fully developed because like in the other example, he his more brave than he has ever been. Erik got in trouble for what he did and so did Paul. He got expelled from Tangerine Middle School and transferred to St.

Paul Fisher, the main character of Tangerine, moves from Lake Windsor Middle School to Tangerine Middle School. As you can tell throughout the book, Paul goes through jurassic changes after switching to TMS(Tangerine Middle School). Some examples of changes that Paul went through at TMS are that he becomes less nerdy, more friendly, better known, a better soccer player, and later even gets expelled from all public schools in Tangerine County for his friends.

Erik helped develop Paul's characteristics improve with hatred towards Paul. “And I could see Erik lurking behind me, in the shadows of the cloak.”(Pg 168). Although Paul reactions is to be fearful that helped towards Paul's characteristics improve throughout the book. More ways that improved Paul is Eriks frightened Paul, he made him angry, and disrespected Paul. But this all improved Paul to become a good person not like Erik.

The decision was made after the doctor informed them that Paul would not be blind, and would most likely not remember any of this. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher decided to leave the situation like that for Paul not to know and not hate his brother. Paul’s glasses had always affected his self esteem. Consequently, he loathed himself for the glasses and the reason he had gotten them. Now that Paul remembered what had happened, he was enraged with what his parents were telling him.

most of the time he doesn’t care about most of the choices he makes, as long as it doesn’t affect him. As a result, Paul was now unable to see clearly, mostly in his peripheral vision, and the only way he can see fine is with his thick glasses. Since Paul was only 5 when his eyesight was damaged due to Erik, he could not remember what happened, and he went to his parents to ask, though they told him again and again that Paul stared into an eclipse, and his eyes were damaged. Paul already knew this could not be true, since he knew he was not that dumb,

In Edward Bloor’s novel Tangerine, how did one character’s choices and the consequences of these choices affect the development of the main character? The choices of the brother, Erik, affected Paul in many ways, most of which in a hasty manner. He was a terrible rotten brother to Paul, but not alone, he had some help from his friends. Erik tortured Paul and his friends the whole book, was a part in killing Luis Cruz, and he almost blinded Paul.

Have you ever woken up with these bulky glasses not knowing where they came from and your parents telling you a lie. Well in Tangerine by Edward Bloor the main character Paul goes through just that. His brother Erik has been mean and putting Paul down his entire life. Paul has been learning to not be afraid and see through the shadiest lies.

When Paul asks his parents to reveal the truth to him about how he really almost lost his eyesight the reader gets a look at how fake and awful his parents have been to him his whole life. The gothic element present in this scene is dysfunctional family, Bloor used this to show the reader how ingenuine Paul's family is with him. Words such as “rage” and “frozen” show the reader how Paul and his parents were feeling during this discussion (PDF pg 161). His parents were guilty, Paul's mom and dad even broke down into tears. When his parents began the lie by telling Paul that he lost his eyesight by staring at a solar eclipse they also began a dysfunctional relationship. They made Paul “hate himself” so that they could make sure he didn't detest Eric, his older brother (PDF pg

"Money cannot buy you happiness, but I would rather cry in a Ferrari." Paul Chaney thought this quote really represents him because he has big dreams; Paul wants to move to Europe. Paul came to St. Paul's Episcopal Day School in fourth grade and made friends right away. Paul and I were really good friends and still are. Paul thought St. Pauls has taught him a lot about growing up. Paul Chaney thinks academic and non-academic attributes represent him the best.

On page 7, “ An old familiar feeling came over me, like I'd forgotten something.  What was it? What did I need to remember?”  this was the protagonist getting into him  becoming blind.  he knew he was forgetting something, and it was important. Later, we figured that that “ small vision”  explain how Paul actually became blind. This symbolizes the start of the visions and Remembrance.

He wears nice clothes around town trying to become the person he sees himself as. He goes to parties and meets people who are very different from the boring folk back home. Paul felt that these were the people he wanted to be. He believed that he was finally where he belonged. Paul felt that fate brought him here and that he should have never been in the dull town that he was from in the first place. If I was paul I would make the same decision and live life how I want it. I think every human person has right to live the life in their own way. They shouldn't be forced by societal