Tangerine Character Analysis

Whatever choice you make there is always a consequence. Like in Edward Bloor's book “Tangerine” Erik, Pauls older brother made many choices that affected Paul or somebody else, most of the time in a bad way. Although Paul goes through all of these bad choices, his brother makes he still seems to get over the challenges and changes. Erik has done many things that affected Paul, The biggest ones were when Erik spray painted paul in the eyes when he was five years old causing Paul to be legally blind (page 263) or when Erik told Arthur Bauer, Eriks friend to hit Luis across the face with the black jack later resulting in his death (page 211).
Erik had the most effect on Paul in this novel the most being when Erik spray painted Paul in the eyes