In the novel Tangerine, Paul Fisher is supposed to be a young man that became almost blinded by his brother and brother's friend spray painting his eyes. He is supposedly almost blind but actually, he can see more than what his parents can see. Erik Fisher, Paul’s brother, is a really mean boy who tries to kill Paul in a flashback, spray paints his eyes, steals a bunch of priceless objects from houses, and kills someone. Mom and Dad don’t see what a psycho Erik is. Through the motif of sight, Paul, the main character in the novel, has a growing understanding of his friends, family, and himself.…
Imagine this- you move to a new town that’s a little strange. Now, you have to make new friends and fit in, all while avoiding your menacing brother. This is the suffering Paul goes through everyday in Tangerine. This companion book will take you directly into the protagonist’s and antagonist’s similarities and differences. It’s about how the two brothers each went different ways from the family tree.…
Aaron Paquette’s Lightfinder (2014) and Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen (1998) are two novels that follow a set of siblings in a fictional context, focusing on their journeys, challenges, and accomplishments as Aboriginal youth. Highway’s Kiss of The Fur Queen revolves around the Okimasis brothers, Jeremiah and Gabriel, and the experiences they face as they were forced into the inhospitable environment of a Catholic residential school. Paquette’s Lightfinder revolves around Aisling (sister), her grandmother Kookum Georgia, Aunty Martha, as well as two young men, Matari and Jake, who set out a search with hopes to find Aisling’s brother Eric, who has run away with a friend, Cor. In this paper, I will compare and contrast the relationships…
In Tangerine, a book of lies, the main character Paul Fisher tries to find the truth but who can he trust? When his family moves to Florida, he must move to a new school and make new friends. Paul has always know his brother as a bully but his parents think Erik is the golden child. With his parents against him, Paul turns to his new friends on the soccer team. As weird things start happening, Paul has a hard time believing that he got his ‘coke bottle’ glasses by staring at an eclipse.…
Finally, Paul had a horrible incident when he got kicked off the Lake Windsor Middle soccer team. Coach Walski told Paul that he couldn’t play on the team anymore because IEP says that he is in a handicapped program so, the team couldn’t afford the insurance if Paul got injured. The author’s use of internal and external conflict makes the reader dig deeper into Tangerine. When people delve into this book they tend to have a better understanding of it, which makes it a lot easier to take in information especially all of the conflicts that are involved in the story. There are so many cliffhangers that make the novel more interesting than most books, it makes the reader dive into the book without…
Tragedy eventually strikes, and a daughter is lost to a poisonous snake bite. After this, the women of the family leave both the village and the preacher behind to embark on their own journeys. The last part of the novel covers their separate lives, with a focus on how Africa stuck with them. In the beginning, matriarch Orleanna seems to be the most important character.…
In Edward Bloor’s novel “Tangerine” the main character Paul goes through a lot of changes with many different people. One of them is Erik, Paul's older brother. He has affected Paul in many ways. Also Paul's characteristics showed many signs of Erik affecting his life.…
Mrs. Fisher ruined Pauls chance to play at soccer at Lake Windsor Middle by filling out an IEP for Paul. In the novel, “Tangerine”, written, by…
The novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor narrated the social development of up-and-coming soccer superstar, Paul Fisher, with underlying meanings contained in his simplistic thoughts. This young protagonist showed his growth as a character by way of childish reason. His quote, “But today I wasn’t a coward, and that counts for something,” provided the background that he was not an exceptionally brave teen. Paul’s view of society was limited because of a lack of attention during his childhood.…
Paul Fisher, the protagonist of Edward Bloor’s realistic fiction, Tangerine, shows his adventure of being legally blind yet seeing things others don't. The story uses the motif ( a theme in a story) of sight to show Paul’s growing understanding of his friends, family, and himself. One group of Paul's growing understanding is his friends. When first introduced to Victor, the captain of Tangerine Middle school's soccer team, Paul sees him as kind of a jerk, trash talking and getting up in people's business. “You?…
Before the story has begun, the African American is already accused of raping a white, nineteen year old Mayella Ewell. Many townspeople of Maycomb believe that Robinson is not responsible for his crime because he is a hard-working and well-respected man. On the other hand, they disrespect and distrust the prosecutor, Mayella Ewell, because she belongs to a poor, disgraceful “white trash” family who lives by the town’s dump. The second evidence that proves Tom Robinson’s innocence is found in Mr. Ewell’s testimony on the rape. Mr. Ewell, Mayella’s father and one of the witnesses of the incident, tells Atticus, the lawyer of Tom Robinson, that he does not call a doctor for Mayella on that day.…
Have you, or someone you know, ever been a victim of ableism? Ableism is the discrimination in favor of able-bodied people. Paul Fisher suffers through ableism. Paul along with his brother, Erik, mother and father moves to Tangerine, Florida. It this little town many odd occurrences happened, some of them unbelievable.…
“Othello” A Literary Analysis Little is known of Shakespeare’s life. According to the short biography written in The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature (Meyer, 2014, pp. 1145-1154), Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon on or about April 23rd, 1564. His father was an important person in the town. He held several town offices and married a woman from a prominent family.…
Have you ever been bullied? The character Paul Fisher has. For instance on page 74 when an unknown character said this “Hey! Give me one of those tickets!” At this time Paul was walking into a fair with his friend and this person decided he wanted his ticket.…
With very little investigation, one may think “The Lightning-Rod Man,” written in 1853 by Herman Melville, is a simple story about a man selling lightning rods who hopes people’s desire to stay safe during a storm and the closeness of the storm will help him in trying convince people to buy his product. Upon further investigation, I do not believe Melville meant for this story to just have one simple meaning. The complex style of writing leave many readers looking for more on what Melville means. In all of his works, Melville used elaborate sentences, imagery, and allusions like when talking about scripture from The Bible that help teach valuable lessons (Wikipedia, 2018).…