The Importance Of Ethnic Conflict In Tangerines

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

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.

“The truth shall set you free.” How many times have you told the truth? How many times have you not? In the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor the main character Paul faces many times where he has knows what the truth is but does not tell. The truth is one of many themes in the novel. In the novel Tangerine the author Edward Bloor explores the saying “the truth shall set you free.”

et's get the easy one out of the way, first: the action place in the recent past, probably in the 1990s. Even though it's never actually specified in the book, you can figure out the date by the lack of cell phones, and the fact that the narrator still feels he has to explain what the Internet is to his readers.

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.

Everyone makes mistakes. In tangerine by Edward Bloor Mrs. Fisher, the main character's mother had a tough time figuring out what would be best for her youngest son Paul. She thought her decisions were for the best, but it turns out she had made the wrong choices which caused a great amount of change in Paul’s life. These changes were not exactly for the better causing Paul to be angry and upset with her because of all the mistakes she has made. Paul was already going through a rough patch in his life and Mrs. Fisher was making it worse for him. He had to move to from Texas to Tangerine Florida, had to go to a brand new school, and most of all, he had to face his frightening older brother Erik. Paul blamed everything good or bad on his

Young children used to play with toys called Transformers, but little do people know that transformers are actually shapeshifters. Shapeshifters are people that can change the way they look like or act toward others. In Edward Bloor’s novel Tangerine, Joey Costello proves to be the mythological archetype of the shapeshifter in three ways.

“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are (in our raw and pure form), without all the worldly superfluities and additions in our characters and morals brought about by personal decisions and undertakings defacing your true colors.” In the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, Paul is faced with an overwhelming load of adversity upon moving to the lightning-strike capital of the entire continental U.S., Tangerine County, Florida. Along the way, throughout the whole novel, Paul is forced to battle a plethora of internal conflicts, doubts, and opposition, including the strange nature of the city resulting in a perpetual muck fire. To surmount this adversity and stay strong, Paul makes countless impactful choices, all of which serve to either make or break him, depending on how he bounces back from predicaments and acts.

Tangerine, an exciting book filled with secrets waiting to be unveiled. The Fisher family is moving to Tangerine, Florida. Here, they all have a chance at a new beginning, but not much has changed. Paul is still the boy who needs coke-bottle glasses, and Erik is still the admired football star. One big mystery still remains, “What was the cause of Paul’s bad eyesight?” In the novel Tangerine, Edward Bloor uses exemplary symbolism and characterization to convey the themes of growth and heroism.

Have you ever seen destruction or had something of yours destroyed? There may not have been an obvious immediate benefit from that destruction. Edward Bloor teaches us that destruction creates a chance for growth and opportunity. In the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, he describes the life of 13-year-old Paul Fisher. Paul witnesses the destruction of his first school, Lake Windsor, from a sinkhole. Due to this destruction, he gets the opportunity to go to a new school called Tangerine Middle. There he makes friends and finds himself helping them with the freeze. The freeze is when the temperature drops and the tangerine trees start to freeze. After the freeze, the trees produce the wonderful growth of the amazing golden dawn. Therefore, Edward Bloor uses the sinkhole and the freeze to reveal the theme that destruction creates a chance for growth and opportunity.

The main conflict happened when the master's wife gave birth to a mixed child for reason that she was in love with a slave, in addition Amari and Polly helped her fake the baby's death. The master found out and shoots the baby and the father. Amari and Polly receive whippings and will be sent somewhere else, additionally Amari responds by running

Orange County bears the name of the backbone fruit that has played an important role on a drama that took place in 1936. An event that has often been forgotten by many, and it is well known for few as the “Citrus War of 1936”

One of the main themes is war and tension as viewed from Marjane’s point of view. Throughout the movie, there is some scenes of violence such as air raids and killings. There is also the theme of conflict between Western and Islamic ideology. All the themes mentioned goes back to the class discussion about the different cultural differences between countries such as the United States and the Muslim world. Another theme that is relevant is cultural shock and immigration where Marjane lived in Austria before returning to Iran and experience a lot of prejudice and culture shock between the two countries.

This movie is about The Cuban Missile Crisis which also known as The October Crisis in Cuba and the Caribbean Crisis in USSR. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a thirteen-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other side. This crisis happened during the Cold War in October 1962. In August 1962, after some failed operations by the United States to overthrow

“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender” - Winston Churchill. Producer Lawrence Bender and director Luis Mandoki’s 2004 Innocent Voices, explains the 1980s civil war that started in a small country called El Salvador, through Chava’s (Carlos Padilla) eyes. The conflict between the Salvadoran army and the peasants over their land put Chava’s mother (Leonor Varela) under much stress, taking care of his sister and younger brother through the horror of murder and bloodshed.