Examples Of Selective Memory In Tangerine By Edward Bloor

I stammered out, ‘Erik. He tried to kill me.’ “This citation shows how fearful Paul is when Erik

Paul’s parents and Erik create many problems for Paul, and it makes it difficult for him to uncover his true self. Paul’s parents don’t pay attention to what Erik truly is, but are also absorbed in his high school football career. Dad said,” You’re saying that I know everything about Erik’s season and nothing about yours. Your right, and I’m sorry.” (Bloor pg.234) But Erik also creates problems

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.

Firstly, Paul’s blindness was always kept as a lie to him. When asked by Kerri how his eyes were damaged, he responded with “I don’t know” because he really wasn't sure at that point. He then thought about why he didn't answer the question correctly, because he “used to tell people that [he] once stared too long at a solar eclipse” although he wondered “if that really happened why can't he remember it?” since he just did not believe that he was dumb enough to do that (pg 39). Paul realized that this couldn't have been true later on and once he figured out that his father had hid the truth from him the whole time just so Paul wouldn't hate Erick, it made him feel like he didn't matter.

One of the cruelest things Erik did in the book was damage Paul’s eyesight. Because of what Erik did, it ruined Paul’s child/teen hood. He couldn’t play on the Lake Windsor soccer team, he got called mean names, and he was seen as “handicapped” by people including his mom. This just shows how much of a sick person Erik is. Erik may be cruel, but Paul is very compassionate. He enjoys helping people. In the story, Paul helped Luis Cruz with his tangerine business. Even though Paul didn’t have to, he chose to fight the freeze and try to save the tangerines with Luis and his family. Paul may have gotten sick and had problems during the freeze, but he fought through it to be with his friends. Based on that, you know that Paul is a true

Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, is a young adult fiction novel about the unfortunate events and dark secrets of Paul and his family, which ultimately reveal that the truth may hurt but must be found no matter the difficulty.. Tangerine revolves around the motif of sight and it shows how the use of sight partially or fully can be beneficial or harmful. Through the motif of sight, Paul, the main character in the novel, experiences a growing understanding of his friends, family, and himself.

I could see Eric posing in front... I could see Eric working behind me in the shadows(168). this is a strong example proving how Paul, even though he's visually impaired, sometimes these things that others can't he describes his brother as a predator hunting his prey and seize the true side of people even though others might try to ignore it. this affects Paul and the way he sees his brother, his parents, his friends, and even himself. The way Paul sees things differently than others impacts himself and how he sees himself as different from everyone

After confronting Erik, Paul finally bursts. All of the police are at Paul’s house, and he tells the police about Luis Cruz, saying “I saw- I heard Erik Fisher tell him to do it.” (284) Paul let go of all of his fear right then. His fear to let others, mostly Erik, gain power because of him.For once in his life, Erik is going to get what he

throughout the novel Paul sees lies and pushes himself to find the truth. “I used to tell people that I once stared too long at a solar eclipse. But if that's the truth, if that really happened, why can't I remember it?” (39) This quote shows the time where Paul sees a lie in his past. because of this Paul is motivated 2 uncover the truth. this gives him a newly found confidence and he ultimately ends up understanding the truth in his past. Similarly Paul again these lies. he feels the need to go deeper, “ I yanked off my coke bottle glasses and shook them at him in Rage.’ There are questions that need to be answered about these! Am I such a stupid idiot fool that I stared at a solar eclipse for an hour and blinded myself? Is that who I am? And I am I an idiot?’” (264) Quotes all leave enormous live and demands the truth. Upon gaining this truth he get self appreciation and understands his past. Examples show site and how it helps Paul deepen his understanding of

This made Paul feel embarrassed, because Tino hadn’t done anything to deserve being hit and Paul was ashamed of his brother for hurting his friend. According to the text, “Immediately, faster than I thought he could, faster than Tino thought he could, Erik lashed out, smashing him so hard that Tino spun halfway around in the air and landed on the grass…. I tried to get Tino to come inside, but he wouldn’t. He wouldn’t talk to me, or even look at me…. What could I have done? What should I have done.” [Page 205-207]. This passage explains that this choice Erik made. Tino embarrassed Erik, teasing him about him falling on this butt in the mud at a football, so Erik, punched Tino in his ear, making it bleed. This affected Paul because the interaction made his friendship with Tino awkward. Tino thinks that Paul is like his brother even though he isn't. Also Paul feels embarrassed because he didn’t back up Tino and because he didn’t warn him of what could happen at his

That aspect of his previous life seems unreal and incomprehensible, perhaps even vague because since he came to the war he feels cut off from his early life. It is as if he has lost the person he used to be. Not only does Paul feel he has lost himself as he used to be, but he also believes that he would not be able to recapture his past, even if given the chance: "…these memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow…Once we had such desires-but they return not. They are past, they belong to another world that is gone from us." (Remarque, pg.106).  From this quote it is clear that Paul feels his childhood is out of reach. He has lost his desire to recapture his memories, perhaps recognising that they may not mean all that much to him now anyway, due to the fact that he feels he has already lost the world those memories originated from. When Paul returns home on leave, he realises that it may not be him losing a previous world of memories, rather the previous world is losing him: "I cannot feel at home amongst these things…There is a distance, a veil between us." (Remarque, Pg.139).  Paul feels out of place when he returns home, reinforcing his fears that the war has changed him irreversibly. As Paul recognises this occurring change throughout the novel, his thoughts and actions become reclusive. After killing an enemy soldier in battle, the effects of the war on his sense of

The character with Anterograde memory loss was able to remember everything else after his head banged up included the night when his wife got raped. After

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Paul's father had abused him emotionally, and probably physically, throughout Paul's life. He did so much to Paul's flagging self-image that he had to boast to others to make himself feel big, when he felt tiny inside. When he finally achieved that "bigness" that he always wanted, the glamour of "the good life," his father found him out and took that away from him, or rather, made Paul give it up. This made Paul feel even smaller and made him feel that he would be better off dead. So Paul decided to make his life "better off" and

Fuller especially have several traumatic memories that obviously still cause her pain, and because they will not go away, she can relate them more accurately. Some of Fuller’s more traumatic experiences are the attempted rape of her and her sister, the death of her younger sister, her getting lost in the forest and the list just goes on. Conway’s memories are a bit less severe, but she still lost most of her family in one way or another, was bullied and discriminated, and such events leave their mark. Of course, it is important to keep in mind that traumatic memories might actually not be as accurate as they seem since the involved party might build upon the event over time to better cope with them or because of guilt. Fuller, for example, blames herself fully for the death of her younger sister, though she can hardly be blamed. All of Schacter seven sins can give different explanations to memories’ inaccuracy, and as a reader, one has to be aware that no memory is objective as they are as much a feeling as a recollection affected by so many