How Does Bloor Present The Theme Of Tangerine Change Throughout The Novel

Not only does Luis Cruz’s choices substantially affect Paul’s development in Tangerine, but he impacts Paul’s personality and choices too. To explain, one of the countless choices Luis chooses is to talk to Erik about punching his younger brother: “Erik and his group had gathered up their gear and were preparing to leave. Luis stood in their path, like the brave sheriff of a town full of cowards” (Bloor 211). When Luis decides to stand up to Erik, Paul is influenced to be undaunted by his elder brother. Continuing, Luis also improves Paul’s life by showing him his family’s tangerine nursery: “He said, ‘Look around you. This is a nursery’” (Bloor 164). As Paul journeys through the nursery, he becomes passionate about the trees and loves the

One thing Paul does not know he is looking for though, is the truth to why he is blind. In this novel, Tangerine, Edward Bloor uses flashbacks and impeccable symbolism to shuttle the theme of change and growth. To begin with, Edward Bloor uses flashbacks to show change. When Paul finds out the reason to why he is blind from a flashback, his attitude changes

Bloor used flashbacks to snow now Paul grew or changed from a certain event. The quote, “... saw it- a black car- just an outline as first, then clear and detailed… the gears ground, the tires squealed, and the car leaped forward at an impossible speed. I swiveled back, terrified, and pedaled as hard as I could… He pulled the bat back and up… dove to my right… ‘Erik tried to kill me’” shows how Paul, at the end of the book, would have reacted differently the new Paul would have not ran away from the three but encountered it. The quote shows that Paul was afraid of Erik. At the end of the book, Paul proves that he is not afraid of Erik. The quote gives a deeper example on Erik and Paul’s back story. Flashbacks give an example of ‘growing and changing’ by comparing how much the characters of the story change throughout the

When Erik and his friend sprayed the paint and Paul’s eyes, His mom found Paul unconscious and took him to the hospital. Then chose to not tell Paul about what Erik did, because Paul could not remember since the flashback, his mom said ‘we didn’t want you to hate your brother!”, which made Paul angerer, resulting to him responding “And you thought that was right for me?!” This choice influenced Paul the most in my opinion because throughout the book Paul and Erik had a lot of drama around them and knowing that in the end of the book that Erik was the reason Paul is blind, really mad Paul

One of the greatest football coach named Knute Rockne once said, “One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.” In the novel Tangerine, the novel show sportsmanship when a visually impaired child named Paul moves to new home in Tangerine florida. He plays soccer while his brother Erik is seen as a football star. He finds out about the secrets about Tangerine, Florida and also find out the secrets about his past that his family has been hiding from him for far too long.. The novel shows how the characters show sportsmanship to other characters in the story. In the novel Tangerine, Edward Bloor uses the motif of sportsmanship to show that show sportsmanship doesn’t always mean you are a good athlete.

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.

This all ties back to how Paul finds out about his friends’ true personalities and furthers his understanding about

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.

A choice made by Erik affected Paul by making Paul hate himself for letting him feel dumb for staring at the solar eclipse. Which Paul didn’t ,do that made it worse. “And I remembered Erik’s fingers prying my eyelids open while Vincent Castor sprayed white paint into them.”(pg 263-264). “I answered, “ So you figured better if I just hated myself ?”(pg 265). This affected Paul because he grew thinking he was a freak and an idiot for looking at the solar eclipse and being visually impaired. It also affected Paul because he was made fun of and it was hard to make friends cause they said he looked like an alien. Erik had made this choice because he and Vincent wanted revenge

In Edward Bloor’s Tangerine, Paul, the main character, makes choices that affect him greatly, because he gets hurt physically, he gets expelled, he gets rid of feeling scared of his older brother Erik, and he finds out a secret his family has been hiding from him for his whole life. In this story, the main character's family moves from Texas to Florida because Paul's father gets a new job as the Deputy Director of Civil Engineering. As the days go by, he notices some very unusual things about his new home in Tangerine. On November 4th, Paul makes the choice to confess to Tino that he “ratted” him and his friends out.

Therefore, after the Cruz family and Paul near the end of fighting “The Freeze”, Luis tell Paul, “‘I’m just telling you this so you’ll know. You seem kinda scared of Erik and Arthur Bauer.’ ‘Yeah. I am. Who wouldn’t be?’... Luis’s uncle walked up and started talking to him, so I drifted back inside, thinking about my fear of Erik. How could I be so totally afraid, and Luis not be the slightest bit afraid, of the exact same thing?’(229) Paul becomes aware that not everyone is afraid of Erik and he begins to question his own beliefs about his feelings towards his brother. It puts into perspective that his “big and scary” problems are not such great conflicts when one takes the initiative to stand up to them. This influences Paul to lose his trepidation for when he confronts Erik. It reduces Erik’s power over keeping Paul silent when he witnesses his older brother committing something unlawful. Adding to that, after being reminded of a familiar name, Castor, and white spray paint, Paul analyzes what really led to the beginning of his terrible eyesight. He confronts his parents and they say, “‘You were five years old, Paul. There was only so much you could understand. All you could understand was that something bad had happened… I was so terrified that you would

Secondly, Paul experiences a growing understanding of his family. When Paul and his mom first move into Tangerine his mom doesn’t see the beauty of the area. She says, “‘Good Heavens! Look at that.’ Black smoke was pouring from a huge bonfire of trees” (8-9). Paul’s mom immediately notices the negative things in the area and doesn’t see the positive things. Also it affects how Paul sees things because his mom is changing how he thought of the place by saying negative things. On the other hand Mom and Dad don’t see the consequences of their actions when lying to Paul about his eyesight. Dad said, “‘The doctors told us that you might never remember. And we figured that that was the best way to handle the situation,” He shook his head sadly.’ We wanted to find a way to find a way to keep

In the beginning of the book, when eating dinner, dad talks about the Erik Fisher Football Dream. Paul abnormally asks, “How long did it take dad to get to his favorite topic, the Erik Fisher Football Dream?” (11) The quote shows how dad doesn’t have a sight/thought for Paul, and only cares about Erik. Dad is unable to realize that he doesn’t support Paul, thus leaving Paul feeling unnoticed and unimportant. Of course, Paul is also feeling neglected by other members of the family, especially Erik. “I remembered Erik prying my eyes open while Vincent sprayed white paint into them” (263-4). The quote makes the reader realize that Erik doesn’t see Paul as a kind brother. Instead Erik sees Paul as a little pest who means nothing to him, thereby treating Paul with a non caring attitude. The examples both use sight as a factor that is missing. This can greatly interfere with the character’s understanding of each

Paul’s emerging awareness about how his personal history continue to affect his relationships with his friends, teammates, family, and school. Erik earns revenge for Vincent, his sidekick, by, “... prying my eyelids open while Vincent Castor sprayed white paint into them. They left me screaming and rolling around on the floor of the garage” (Bloor 263-264). As a consequence of this choice, Erik’s selfishness is shown to imply that he has no emotion for Paul. This decision affected Paul’s life by making him almost blind, causing him to obtain an Individualized Education Program form, kicked off the Lake Windsor soccer team, and receiving mocking comments because of his ¨coke-bottle¨ glasses. In essence, Paul is influenced by Erik and infuriated that his life has been a lie, ‘‘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? Am I that idiot?’’ (Bloor 264). Paul is full of rising anger and has never considered that Erik actually was the cause of his bad sight. Paul’s glasses play a recurring role of demonstrating the inability to see the truth because sometimes, he notices things that others do not. Throughout the story, Paul is trying to find the truth of what actually caused his poor eyesight, relying on his visions to find his own identity to be part of the Tangerine society. Overall, Paul’s entire life

Paul struggles to remember why he has to wear his “coke-bottle glasses.” In the novel, Tangerine, Edward Bloor wisely uses flashbacks and symbolism to display the theme of growth and change. To start off, Edward Bloor uses flashbacks to show the theme of growth and change. On Page 262-263, “Erik was still in rage. He was talking to Arthur Bauer, but he was staring at me when he roared,