Edward Bloor

Imagine waking up every morning smelling smoke from a muck fire that will never go away. In the book, Tangerine by Edward Bloor, the main character, Paul Fisher, faces many choices that affect him in positive and negative ways. Paul is a young boy that has the struggle of moving from Houston, Texas to Tangerine, Florida. This can be a hard change for anybody. Paul makes many decisions that affect himself. First, he tells the police on Erik for being involved with the death of Luis Cruz, two he

The compelling novel, Tangerine, written by Edward Bloor is a book packed with secrets and creating memorable friendships. The main character, Paul Fisher moves to Tangerine, Florida because his parents invested in his older brother, Erik Fisher’s dream to become an excellent football player. With problems and difficult situations him and his family encounters, Paul has trouble adjusting to life in Tangerine County, Florida. Paul views the world differently behind his ‘coke bottle’ glasses and discovers

In the book Tangerine by Edward Bloor, there is a lot of sibling rivalry. I chose sibling rivalry because it is really action packed! Between Paul’s ruined eyesight and Erik’s mischievous acts, you’ll keep getting pulled further into the book as the story unravels. The main character, Paul, has an evil and older brother Erik. They hate each other so much! Paul is an innocent soccer player whose brother hates him so much that he would do anything to see his little brother get hurt. Between Erik,

In the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, Paul the main character goes through many choices that he makes that have many consequences to them. Paul’s life is challenging from changing schools, having a mean older brother, and losing many friends. He makes many positive and negative choices that get him to where he is now in the book. Paul, and the consequences of those choices, affect the development of his character. To start off, Paul choices to go to Tangerine Middle School to start a fresh and

Paul has made countless choices in the book “Tangerine” by Edward Bloor which has lead him to many consequences. The choices he makes are tough and are not the easiest to make, but they help him develop as a character and in the end shape who he is. Usually these choices associate with something unwelcoming and lead to bad consequences but starting towards the end of the book Paul starts to let himself free from these consequences by making newer and better ones whether they are or are not for the

that Paul have been struggling with also turn up. One of them being how Paul really got his coke bottle glasses. Maybe in Tangerine, he will finally find the reason. In this novel, Tangerine, Edward Bloor expertly uses symbolism and flashbacks to drive the theme of growth and change. Firstly, Edward Bloor uses symbolism to show the theme of growth in the novel, Tangerine.

According to Stephen R. Covey, “While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.” Tangerine by Edward Bloor is about a 7th grader named Paul Fisher who moves to Tangerine, Florida and is trying to find out how he lost his peripheral vision. A choice can have a positive or negative impact on people’s lives. The overall choice that affected Paul was when Erik spray painted Paul’s eyes. Erik made the choice of spray painting Paul’s eyes. When Erik spray

joins the soccer team at his middle schools, he discovers some great friends. Throughout the story, Paul has flashbacks leading to him wondering why he is visually impaired. In the novel, Tangerine, Edward Bloor wisely uses flashback and imagery to express the theme of fear. First of all, Edward Bloor uses the technique of flashback to express the theme of fear. On page 167, it said, “I remember that I started crying in the middle of the pretend clock, but Mom and Dad did not notice. They were

that Erik and his friend sprayed spray paint into Paul’s eyes. Also, Erik and his new friend Author have been robbing people’s houses when they were getting tented for bugs. In the novel, Tangerine Edward Bloor uses flashback and symbolism yo visualize the values of truth. To begin with, Edward Bloor shows us flashbacks

think that they can manipulate everything. However, no matter what they do, does mother nature still over power them? In the novel Tangerine, the residents of Tangerine County get affected by natural causes no matter the efforts to resist them. Edward Bloor uses the motif of nature’s power to shows that even though men think they can overpower nature, it actually overpowers them. The residents of Tangerine County attempt to resist nature's causes, but no matter the effort, mother nature overpowers