Edward Bloor

~Helen Keller . Helen Keller is trying to say that the most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, so the ability to see perfectly, but has no vision, so someone who cannot see beyond what is visible.“ In the novel Tangerine, Edward Bloor uses the motif of sight to show that just because someone can see clearly, it doesn’t mean that they can see the world how it really is. In the novel Tangerine, Paul Fisher can see very clearly with his glasses, but can also see beyond what is

The theme of the novel London Calling, by Edward Bloor, is very deceiving when you start off because you don’t know much. You can think that the theme is many different things like choosing your own path or being a rebel but by the time you finish the book you realize that the theme is really powerful and meaningful. The theme is that you don’t have to be powerful to help others or a community. Bloor supported this with a main question stated all throughout the text. What will you do to help? When

of us?” Edward Bloor was trying to explain that you might be scared by telling the truth because you never know if someone will ever believe you. The main character, Paul, wants his parents to believe him because from past experiences his parents didn’t believe that Paul was actually telling the truth. The message of Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, is choices can lead to consequences which is shown through the characters’ use of characterization, flashback, and conflict. For instance, Bloor uses characterization

Fishing for Choices in Tangerine After talking to his friend, Tino, Paul Fisher, the main character of Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, thought to himself, “I hung up. But I heard that word “brother” echoing long afterward. I looked up at the ceiling, and I heard Erik pacing back and forth, back and forth, in the cage that he had made for himself.” (301). This is just one of the many examples of the way Paul regards his older brother, Erik, and how he felt that he never had a brotherhood until he joined

Erik’s Choices In the Edward Bloor’s novel Tangerine, Erik’s choice to bully Paul throughout the the story makes Paul believe that Erik is just another kid in his horrible life. In the beginning of Paul’s life, Erik decides to spray paint Paul’s eyes so that he goes nearly blind: “I turned around and saw Vincent Castor. He was holding a can of spray paint […] and I remember Erik’s fingers holding my eyelids open while Vincent Castor sprayed white paint into them” (Bloor 263-264). That was Paul’s

“But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that mom and dad can’t. Or won’t,”states Paul Fisher, the main character in the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor. The novel Tangerine is a story about the Fisher family and how they move to Florida to invest his older brother, Erik’s dream to become a football player. Paul Fisher has to wear goggles because he is legally blind, and he thinks he just stared at a Solar Eclipse for too long, however, his displeased older brother Eric sprayed spray

A wise person by the name of G. Gutierrez once said, “You have a choice. A single choice, whatever that choice may be, you have to live with the consequence it brings. That’s all. A choice.” In Tangerine by Edward Bloor, the reader learns how the choices one can make, can impact a life forever. The main character, Paul, has to deal with the consequences made by choices of himself and others. In this case, Paul has to mostly deal with the choices made of his older brother, Erik. Many of Eriks choices

Every choice has an impact, but it is the reaction of those impacted that determines the final outcome. In the novel Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, paul fisher is impacted by the choices of others everyday including Erik’s choices that impact paul in a horrible way because of paul’s own reactions. On page 52, Erik and Arthur were making fun of Joey and Mike and laughing at Mike and how he died. Paul saw them talking about Mike and Joey. Erik said “ Did you see his hair? Did you see the side of

“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

Theme is big idea we take away from a story after reading it. In the novel, Tangerine by Edward Bloor, the primary theme of the story is friendship. The theme of friendship shows up in many events throughout the novel. Over and over again, the reader sees the character(s) struggling with this theme. Bloor develops characters to represent the importance of friendship and what it reveals about human beings. One of the events from the novel where the reader sees this theme is when Joey and Paul’s