Tangerine Paul Fisher Quotes

The lightning happens a lot in Tangerine and causes the Muck fires. The lightning represents how bad things happen to people in the novel Tangerine. “He was just standing there in the end zone. He had one hand on the goalpost, leaning on it, and kaboom!” (Bloor, 50) This quote shows how Mike Costello, was tragically struck by lightning and killed. Not only is death a bad thing for Mike himself and his football career, but also is very tragic for his family as well. “There really is no other time to practice, so we would a team that did not practice.” This affects the football season and the players for a short while, because they are discussing the fact on when they should practice. This is bad for the team because they have to stop their practice

From the beginning of the novel there has always been an odd vibe coming from Paul Fisher's brother, Erik Fisher. In many eyes Paul is caring, open-minded, and respectful, but Erik is the exact opposite, being more self-centered, sneaky, and egotistical. Eriks actions of being sneaking can be constant, but more seen when Paul wakes up in the middle of the night.

“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.

One of the cruelest things Erik did in the book was damage Paul’s eyesight. Because of what Erik did, it ruined Paul’s child/teen hood. He couldn’t play on the Lake Windsor soccer team, he got called mean names, and he was seen as “handicapped” by people including his mom. This just shows how much of a sick person Erik is. Erik may be cruel, but Paul is very compassionate. He enjoys helping people. In the story, Paul helped Luis Cruz with his tangerine business. Even though Paul didn’t have to, he chose to fight the freeze and try to save the tangerines with Luis and his family. Paul may have gotten sick and had problems during the freeze, but he fought through it to be with his friends. Based on that, you know that Paul is a true

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

After a fight Paul takes part in at Lake Windsor High, he runs to his neighborhood. Unfortunately, he is cornered by Erik and Arthur, who attempt to intimidate him. Paul narrates, “I understood that I was supposed to be terrified by this spectacle… But for once in my life, I wasn't. I stepped forward and faced them, just as I had seen Luis do… ‘I'm not afraid of you, Erik. Come on’” (Bloor 260-261). Since Erik chooses to confront Paul, Paul finally does not run away or get worried about what the outcome would be if he talked back to Erik and finds the courage to fight him off. He realizes that his opponent is just a punk trying to ruin his life, and drag him into his careless problems. Furthermore, as Paul faces Erik, he recognizes his same procedure full of pitiful remarks and, "When they finally spoke, it wasn't terrifying, it was lame… Erik stared at me with growing fury, with growing hatred, moving the bat in a tight circle” (Bloor 261, 252). Erik conveys his choice to frighten Paul, making Paul see that Erik was not as terrifying as Paul made him up to be. Paul perceives how terrifying Erik’s true self actually is, as a result of Erik’s choice to confront

How Forgetting Affect’s Paul On psychologytoday.com they say that selective memory, or dissociative amnesia, is “one of several dissociative disorders that mentally separate a person from some aspect of their self, following some sort of trauma or severe stress”. This is saying that selective memory is when someone experiences a traumatic event, so they will forget something, or everything, about that event because of the trauma. In the novel Tangerine, the main character Paul has the most obvious case of selective memory out of all the characters. This book is about a visually impaired boy named Paul who moved with his family to Tangerine, Florida and cannot remember how he damaged his eyesight.

A choice made by Erik Fisher affected Paul by Making him blind. “...I remembered Erik’s fingers prying my eyelids open while Vincent Castor sprayed white paint into them’’, Page 264 . Erik chose to do this because he thought that Paul snitched on Vincent and Erik, so they gave him “payback”. Paul was told that he looked at a solar eclipse which made him blind but was later revealed to him that it was Erik and his Goon’s Fault, which enraged him.

throughout the novel Paul sees lies and pushes himself to find the truth. “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) This quote shows the time where Paul sees a lie in his past. because of this Paul is motivated 2 uncover the truth. this gives him a newly found confidence and he ultimately ends up understanding the truth in his past. Similarly Paul again these lies. he feels the need to go deeper, “ I yanked off my coke bottle glasses and shook them at him in Rage.’ There are questions that need to be answered about these! Am I such a stupid idiot fool that I stared at a solar eclipse for an hour and blinded myself? Is that who I am? And I am I an idiot?’” (264) Quotes all leave enormous live and demands the truth. Upon gaining this truth he get self appreciation and understands his past. Examples show site and how it helps Paul deepen his understanding of

To conclude, Paul’s choices affect himself in many ways. The book,Tangerine, by Edward Bloor shows that Paul’s choices in life lead to many positive and some negative consequences. Being able to play soccer, sticking up for himself, and not being afraid of his brother anymore, are just some things Paul receives from his choices throughout the

In the book Tangerine, the author Edward Bloor, writes about the sinkhole that takes place at Lake Windsor. Portables 16-21 are sucked into the sinkhole with some of the students still inside them. Thankfully, Paul, Joey, and other kids, help haul out the students trapped inside the sinkhole. The students managed to get all of the kids out, and nobody had any serious injuries. After the sinkhole, the engineers blocked off everything within a hundred-yard radius, and nearly all of the high school’s football bleachers. Which meant that half of Erik’s audience was gone, because of the sinkhole.

Paul doesn’t feel comfortable living in his hometown due to his mother's illness(from the snowball incident) and her choices of actions. His guilt from his youth, causes him to leave town, become a magician and join the carnival. Paul started feeling guilty as he grew older, when he could finally understand what happened, and he believes and from what he understands he blames his mother's illness on himself. "... it was my birth that made her like that. My father thought it was his duty to tell me, so that I could do whatever was possible to make it up to her. My birth robbed her of her sanity... I was too young for the kind of guilt my father wanted me to feel. I couldn't stand it." (Davies, p.261) Due to his father being unable to care for his mother's illness, Paul is lead to believe more into his guilt that his mother's illness is all caused by him. “Paul was not a village favourite, and the dislike so many people felt for his mother–dislike for the queer and persistently unfortunate–they attached to the unoffending son.”(Fifth Business. page 32) " I can call up in an instant what it felt like to be the child of a woman everybody jeered at and thought a dirty Joke." (Davies p.261) These two quotes lead to Paul being frowned upon in the town. Many take second guesses to talk to Paul because of the direction of Mrs. Dempster losing her

Erik took advantage of the situation and started making fun of Paul’s friends because they work hard with their families in their groves. To illustrate, “Look at this. I think it’s great that these farm-labor kids get to spend a day away from the fields” (Bloor 204). This demonstrates how Erik was making fun of Tino and his friends for working hard. This got Tino mad so he started to make fun of Erik for missing the ball and slipping in the football game. Without a doubt, Erik got mad and he smacked his hand across Tino’s face. Indeed,“Immediately, faster than I thought he could, faster than Tino thought he could, Erik lashed out, smashing the back of his hand across Tino’s face, smashing him so hard that Tino spun halfway around in the air and landed on the grass”(Bloor 205). To authenticate, Erik hit Tino so hard that he twisted around halfway and landed on the grass. This affected Paul by making him feel useless because he had not defended his friends from the violent actions of his brother. His friends blamed him and rejected him even though his brother was at

When he is reunited with his mother "[they] say very little," but when she finally asks him if it was "very bad out there" Paul lies. In trying to protect her by lying, Paul creates a separation between his mother and himself. As Paul sees it, the tragedies and horrors of war are not for the uninitiated. Sadly, the true nature of war further separates the two generations.

the love and care he unknowingly needs. Paul takes on roles that disguise his own traits and turns him into what he believes to be a person nobody can say no to. When he takes on these roles, he