Paul Fisher Quotes

Paul Fisher, the main character of Tangerine, moves from Lake Windsor Middle School to Tangerine Middle School. As you can tell throughout the book, Paul goes through jurassic changes after switching to TMS(Tangerine Middle School). Some examples of changes that Paul went through at TMS are that he becomes less nerdy, more friendly, better known, a better soccer player, and later even gets expelled from all public schools in Tangerine County for his friends.

In the book, "Tangerine" it shows that Paul is a good sportsman, because he had to leave his team to move to Florida he was still

Paul remembers why he has glasses, which is because, Erik sprayed paint in Paul’s eyes. Erik and Arthur later were arrested for manslaughter of Luis and robbing houses. In the novel Tangerine, Edward Bloor uses flashback and fear to convey the theme of overcoming obstacles and growth.

The novel, Tangerine, is full of suspense, secrets, and friendship. The protagonist, Paul, is a middle schooler, who just moved to Tangerine, Florida with his family. He is sick and tired of having to deal with his cruel brother, Erik, the antagonist. Not only that, but Paul wants to know the truth behind how he became visually impaired. In this novel, Tangerine, Edward Bloor shows ideal foreshadowing and symbolism to convey the theme of growth and change.

Can Paul finally find the courage within him to stand up to Erik while juggling his soccer career and figuring out who is behind all of Tangerine's troubles? In the novel,Tangerine,Bloor creatively uses flashback and symbolism to vividly display the theme of growth and change.

Everyone has been misunderstood at one time or another. It’s part of the human life. Difference. Difference is what brings us together. Paul Fisher is different. In the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, the protagonist, Paul Fisher, is legally blind. Misunderstood his whole life. While he legally cannot see, he can see what others can’t. Or won’t. This has plagued Paul’s life and throws a shadow over his memory. His memory is holding Paul back. He has been told his whole life that he became blind from staring at a solar eclipse for an hour. But he can’t remember it. Paul and his family are now moving to Florida to start a new life. Paul’s zombies are following, waiting to come out of the shadows and finally reveal what they’ve been hiding from Paul. As Paul struggles with the secrets in his family and changing schools, he feels intimidated and misunderstood, but he soon learns that he’s been a coward all his life, but there’s nothing to be afraid of, and he begins to stand up for himself and

For this essay, my chosen character is Paul Fisher. At the beginning of the novel, Paul is scared and tense. At school, Joey tells Paul how he is afraid of a lot of things and how people treat him like a dog. He mentions how he is afraid of Erik and the girls. This takes place in the present, talking about how he has problems all the time.

Through this first incident, Jeanette’s mother, Rose Mary, encouragingly said, “Good for you. You‘ve got to get right back into the saddle. You can’t live in fear of something as basic as fire” (Walls 9). Soon then, Walls became “fascinated with it” (Walls 9) as she passed her finger through a candle flame, slowing her finger with each pass, watching the way it seemed to cut the flame in half.

The evil character in To Kill A Mockingbird is Bob Ewell. The passage says, “‘Who beat you up? Tom Robinson or your father?’ No answer. ‘What did your father see in the window, the crime of rape or the best defense to it?

Because the windows had blown out of the children’s room, Hurst knew that the fire had reached flashover. With his finger, Hurst traced along Vasquez’s diagram the burn trailer that had gone from the children’s room, turned right in the hallway, and headed out the front door. John Jackson, the prosecutor, had told me that the path was so “bizarre” that it had to have been caused by a liquid accelerant. But Hurst concluded that it was a natural product of the dynamics of fire during post-flashover. Willingham had fled out the front door, and the fire simply followed the ventilation path, toward the opening. Similarly, when Willingham had broken the windows in the children’s room, flames had shot

John Rain is the main character in the John Rain series of novels authored by Barry Eisler. The first novel that featured the series’s titular character was Rain Fall that was published in 2003 and later renamed A Clean Kill in Tokyo. The series of books may be classified as espionage novels.

Have you ever considered or imagined that your life would be massively improved without any of your family members in your way due to the all the tremendous effects they have and the unbelievable stress they put on your life? In Tangerine, a marvelous novel released in 1997 by author Edward Bloor, the main character and protagonist of the book, Paul Fisher, has his already not ordinary affected to an enormous extent by his family members, especially his mother, father, and his athletic yet unlikable big brother, Erik Fisher. In the book this characters affect the way in which Paul views himself, his social life, and his relationship with his friends and peers by making them extremely negative.

“Ouch,” Surena jumped. She grabbed a piece of clothing to put over her hand so she could open the door. The door swung open and Surena picked up Belle and ran out the door. There was fire everywhere, she could barely see anything. She heard police cars out side the house with fire trucks. They were spraying the house. Surena felt very dizzy because of the smoke and her dog didn’t look so

" 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.

Nat pulled a stool forward and sat down, leaning forward put the cigarette up to the top of the flame, the flame lapped at the cigarette for a while until the end glowed red like the embers of the fire. Nat withdrew the cigarette from the flame, put it up to his mouth, hesitating then sighed and gently put the cigarette in between his lips. It hung downwards, as he drew in a deep breathe, allowing the smoke to fill his mouth, he gently blew out and watched the blue-grey smoke filled the air around him. “Tomorrow, during the next tide, I’ll have to go out and see if there are any survivors,” Nat sighed, “If we can find anyone maybe they’ll know of a safe place.”