Tangerine Paul Fisher Quotes

The Rivaling Brothers In the book Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, Paul and Erik Fisher are rivaling brothers who don’t get along very well. In the book, Paul and Erik have diverse personalities so they are opposite geometric characters. Erik Fisher is very bold, he stands out on the football field and in the neighborhood. Erik is also very popular and cool, because of these characteristics Erik is defined as the shape is “pow”. On the other hand, Paul Fisher is very abstract and much less than his older brother Erik. So he is the beginning of a “pow” which is a “blob”, a blob is the worse version of a pow. Paul Fisher moved from Houston, Texas to Tangerine County, Florida. He played soccer in Texas but when he moved to Florida he tried out for soccer at his home school Lake Windsor Downs. That school would not allow him to play soccer because he has horrible eyesight and he has to wear glasses. Although, because he couldn’t play soccer at Lake Windsor Downs he transferred to Tangerine Middle School. This represents a blob because he is trying to do something …show more content…
Erik plays football for Lake Windsor Downs high school, and he has a larger amount of care for himself bigger than a football field. Erik is a field kicker, thief and a mean older brother. Erik is very mean and cruel like the sharp points on the pow because in this quote he confesses that he ordered one of his “sidekicks” to murder someone he didn’t like, “I saw- I heard Erik Fisher tell him to do it.”(284). Erik is also like a pow because he was the thief behind the stolen items in his neighborhood, “It didn’t take a genius to figure out the rest. These items were stolen by Erik Fisher and Arthur Bauer.”(280). Erik also treats his younger brother Paul horribly, because Erik was the reason Paul had to get glasses. Even though his parents were always aware he was a bad kid, they just let it slide off their