Adaptability Of Paul In Tangerine

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.

At the beginning of the novel, Paul is very isolated.For instance, on page 12, Paul writes, “Dad said sure thing you’re at the top of the stairs Erik's at the other end and you have two guest room in between you. This shows how Paul is not only physically isolated but also metaphorically for his emotions. On page 11,Paul is isolated by not participating in the Erik fisher football dream like the rest of his family. This shows Paul is even isolated from his family.

Paul and his family move from Houston, Texas to Tangerine, Florida. He has a brother named Erik who is a place kicker for the football team at Lake Windsor. On Paul’s first day at Lake Windsor he meets a kid named Joey Costello. When Paul finds out their is a soccer team he automatically thinks he is going to be the starter goaltender. He can’t play for Lake Windsor because of the IEP(his is blind). Then a sinkhole happens,and Paul is happy about that because Erik just lost all of his fans. Paul’s mom wanted him to go to St. Anthony’s,but Paul wanted to go to Tangerine so he could play soccer and be the starting goalie. On the first day of school Dr. Johnson had Theresa show Paul around. Paul met Victor, Tino, and Henry D. Paul and Joey were

In Edward Bloor’s novel Tangerine, Theresa’s choices and the consequences of her choices affect the main character Paul’s development. Throughout the book, Theresa made choices that change Paul in different ways.

Have you ever made a choice without really thinking about how it would affect yourself and others? In the novel Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, Paul Fisher’s family had just moved to Tangerine County in Florida. Paul loves soccer and plans to play for the Lake Windsor soccer team. Mom makes many important choices throughout the novel. All of these choices affect Paul.

Paul Fishers move was not a ride down a slide. It was a steep Mountain with many series of events that caused him to change as a person. from the start of the book, he believed that he was ignored by his father because he was more focused on Eric's football career. for this reason, it made Eric seem innocent in the most frequent situations (such as when he made fun of Mike’s death) and caused Paul to be afraid of him. Paul was consumed of fear, but was just hanging onto determination. With his soccer career, it kept him looking forwords instead of sideways and backwards. He would make friends that way, stay active, and keep busy. But with the cruel twist of his brother Eric, he controlled many series of events that was even to difficult to notice to the naked eye.

The relationship between the two Fisher brothers is strange and really difficult in the way they don’t get along one single bit. It states on page 3 that, “It was ‘Erik’ I was saying ‘Erik’. Dad finally understood. He looked me right in my eyes and asked ‘What do you mean by ‘Erik’ Erik what Paul?’ I stammered out, ‘Erik’ he tried to kill me!”. This explains how strange both Erik and Paul’s relationship is between each other. For which, Paul starts day-dreaming that his own brother is actually trying to kill him, meanwhile, nothing is going on. Overall, the main relationship

In the novel Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, the character Paul had made many choices that affected others and himself. He made good choices that might have improved something. But he also made many choices that were bad and he really regretted. He also made choices that were bad in the beginning and probably ended up as good choices afterwards.

The Fisher family’s move drastically changed Paul's social life, when Mr. and Mrs. Fisher decided to uproot their family and begin with a fresh start in Tangerine County, Florida. The author gives evidence that the family is moving when he writes, “Take the bag, Paul. I want to have one last look around.” (Bloor1). The reader begins to understand that Paul is having to move away from all his friends, and had to make new ones. The move definitely modified his social

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.

Tangerine Essay By Samantha Zazado. The novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor is a realistic fiction. It's about a boy named Paul who faces challenges, fears, and consequences. Paul’s family moved to Florida and had to meet new people, and Paul needed to find a way to make the soccer team.

Erik acts disrespectful to Paul making Paul not want to be around Erik because of the poor treatment he receives from his older brother. Paul wonders why he receives this disrespect from Erik, because he has no memory of doing anything that

We all experience change at one point no matter what. Likewise, most fictional characters like Paul experience change as well. In the novel Tangerine, Luis Cruz’s death acts as a herald to our hero, Paul Fisher.

Paul`s life is in chaos as he is attempting to uproot his entire life by creating a façade to appeal to the white upper-class. It is this façade, however, that gives Paul control in his life as he is finally able to belong to a family with the Kittredges. This imbalance in Paul`s life causes him to be an Other because he has changed his entire life to simply swindle wealthy whites.

" In Tangerine, it seems anything is possible ( Tangerine ) " In the novel, Tangerine, a lot of peculiar things happen, and the Fisher family, including the main character, Paul, moved right into the weird mess. In this novel, all of the characters make choices and, of course, those choices have consequences. Whether they are good or bad. The people that surround Paul have made some choices that have heavily impacted Paul's life. Some are that Mr. and Mrs. Fisher allow Paul to attend Tangerine Middle School, that Paul almost got kicked out of a soccer game, and that Louis Cruz confronted Erik, Paul's brother, after Erik back-handed Tino.