Role Of Luis In Tangerine

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Have you been leaded in the wrong path?You did something you’re not supposed to?This is the opposite of mentor,but in the novel Tangerine,where Luis is the mentor and guides paul in the right direction to make paul feel like he’s invisible to others. Proving to be the mentor,Luis helps paul build self-esteem and helps paul by sticking up for himself.The backstory to this that Luis brought paul under his wing in when paul went to the nursery and was so fascinated of how beautiful it smelled and looked.Luis let paul come back to the nursery kind of trying to be friendly and wants to know paul better Luis says ‘you should come back sometime’’ Luis says.Paul needs someone like Luis to understand what paul is going through with his family with

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