Use Of The Metaphor Of Blindness In Tangerine

In Edward Bloor’s novel Tangerine, Paul’s eyesight is a motif that helps develop an overall theme of do not judge a person because they are different from others. Due to Paul having to wear glasses, others can imply that he can not see that well. To begin with, people made fun of Paul because of his “Coke Bottle” glasses: “Yow! It came from Mars!” (Bloor 49).

In the short story, Cathedral by Raymond Carver, the word “blind” acquires different meanings. The unnamed narrator is metaphorically blind; he can look at the surface of everything but not see what is inside. Although the narrator can listen to conversations, he cannot understand the deeper emotional context the conversation might hold, compared to Robert, who is visually impaired but can truly listen and understand. It is not until the end of the story that the narrator metaphorically opens his eyes, with assistance from Robert.

Throughout the novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison works with many different images of blindness and impaired vision and how it relates to perception. These images prove to be fascinating pieces of symbolism that enhance the themes of impression and vision within the novel. From the beginning of the novel when the narrator is blindfolded during the battle royal to the end where Brother Jack's false eye pops out, images of sight and blindness add to the meaning of many scenes and characters. In many of these situations the characters inability to see outwardly often directly parallels their inability to perceive inwardly what is going on in the world around them. Characters like Homer A. Barbee and Brother Jack believe they are all knowing

“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.”

The use of symbolism such as the physical and emotional meanings of blindness can describe different meanings behind elements of the story. In the critical essay, the author discusses why an author might choose to make a character bling and what it means. Diane Andrews Henningfeld, the author of the critical essay explains, “clearly the author wants to emphasize other levels of sight and blindness beyond physical.” Blindness can be more than just the levels of physical sight and the author wants that to be understood. The author wants to emphasize and make it very clear that other levels of sight and blindness exist like not seeing the beauty in life and being blind to it beyond just being able to see with your eyes. The quote can feel something about the characters traits and how they can be so opposite from their physical abilities. This quote Conveys the facts. People can see in different ways. It is stated that,“although he is blind, he ‘sees’ how to get along with others in profound and important ways. By contrast, the narrator, although sighted, does not see how his isolation damages himself, his wife, and their relationship. He is

Everyone has been misunderstood at one time or another. It’s part of the human life. Difference. Difference is what brings us together. Paul Fisher is different. In the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, the protagonist, Paul Fisher, is legally blind. Misunderstood his whole life. While he legally cannot see, he can see what others can’t. Or won’t. This has plagued Paul’s life and throws a shadow over his memory. His memory is holding Paul back. He has been told his whole life that he became blind from staring at a solar eclipse for an hour. But he can’t remember it. Paul and his family are now moving to Florida to start a new life. Paul’s zombies are following, waiting to come out of the shadows and finally reveal what they’ve been hiding from Paul. As Paul struggles with the secrets in his family and changing schools, he feels intimidated and misunderstood, but he soon learns that he’s been a coward all his life, but there’s nothing to be afraid of, and he begins to stand up for himself and

Fisher paid attention to Erik, even though he had done such a terrible thing to Paul. Overall, Paul’s parents have been telling him a lie his whole life and this made him hate himself. The lie was that he is legally blind because he stared at a Solar Eclipse, but the reason he is legally blind is because Erik and Vincent 's spray painted his eyes. This is emotional for Paul because his whole life he has been led to believe otherwise, but now he hates how his mom, stood up for Erik.

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.

Tangerine is a book full of interesting details and ideas. The protagonist, Paul, attempts to remember what happened to his eyesight, and why he must wear thick glasses. After moving to Tangerine, Paul meets new friends and plays his favorite sport, soccer. However, he is constantly overshadowed by the star of his family, Erik. Paul thinks his brother Erik is a jerk, but everybody else sees him as the great football star. In Paul’s mind, he is the person that is not blind, he can see things his parents could not. In the book Tangerine by Edward Bloor, Bloor strategically uses suspense and foreshadowing to portray the theme of standing up to fear.

“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.

Whenever his parents look at him they see an angel sent from heaven above. When they turn their backs, he kills, robs, and laughs at those who passed away like a demon sent from below. Even if his father found out about that, he would still find a way to make excuses for or ignore Erik’s behavior. Paul can’t even bring himself to tell his parents about all the evil acts that Erik has done in his life. That said, Paul is still angry and hurt that his brother is never caught or discovered.

Many characters made careless choices in the book that affected Paul but Eric made the most. In the book Tangerine, Eric’s choices and the consequences of his choices affected the development of Paul in three ways. When Eric hit Tino and when Paul figured out that Eric was the reason he was blind. Paul is a boy who just moved from Texas to Florida. He moves to a place called Lake Windsor Downs. He goes to school at Lake Windsor Downs Middle School, but there was a tragedy at that school so he moved to Tangerine Middle School. He goes out for the Tangerine soccer team and makes it. Then horrible things start happening.

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 .

When one thinks of being blind, they think of someone who literally can not see, but one can also be blind by lacking perception or awareness. People who have sight and yet are blind is clearly seen in the book, To Kill a Mockingbird. To Kill a Mockingbird is a story based in the 1930’s when racial issues are heavily present. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, and throughout history, people or groups of people have existed who can literally see the world around them, and yet are blind to the truth; but, as seen in the novel, some of these people’s eyes can be opened to the truth either by empathy or experiences.

    The theme blindness & sight best resembles Tiresias as he is blind, but he has the ability to metaphorically  ‘see’ what others can’t. A good example of this is when Tiresias says “How terrible- to see the truth