Tangerine Erik Fisher Character Analysis

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The shiny sun hit all of the students and teachers eyes as they went outside for an announcement. All the high school students sat on the cold metal bleachers waiting for something to happen. The principle walked out to the field looking down at the ground with a microphone in one hand. He slowly picked up his head looking at everyone, and it looked like our principle was going in slow motion, tapping the microphone, testing if it worked. The principle licked his lips, breathed in, and spoke, “Today we will remember our former student Mike Costello so can we all take a moment in silence for him.“ You can hear all of the normal sounds you would hear: whimpering, sobbing and crying. But one sound stood out among all of the sound: laughter. …show more content…
In the book Tangerine the antagonist or villain, Erik Fisher stands out in the novel as the worst villain. Erik was very sneaky for stealing all their jewelry and house belongings from innocent people. On the contrary, Paul would never steal anything from anyone, Paul would be trustworthy. Paul is trustworthy because, he would help his teammates no matter what. In the book it says “They pass by Paul, who jumps on the coach’s back” Paul did that so Tino can get away.Most of the time he tells his teammates what he done. In other words Erik is the worst a villain can get and by far a extremely deceitful villain. In the world we can get 1 million traits for every villian made like Erik,because he is extremely selfish.Selfish means all he cares is himself and Erik is very selfish. Erik is very selfish because all he cares is being the top on the football team and being the best. On the other hand, Paul is caring because he does things before him like helping people out of the sinkhole he could of fell in but he wanted to help others. To conclude is that Erik will kill to be the star of the team and be on top so Erik is one of the most amazing and selfish villain in a …show more content…
The book Tangerine Erik is extremely atrocious because he holds down his brother and sprayed his own brother in the eyes with paint. The opposite of Erik is Paul, is magnificent because he would've never done that. Paul does stand up at times if it is serious or his friend is being bullied but he is the best friend you could have. When people were being mean and bullying Paul he did nothing but walking away. On the contrary Erik is definitely atrocious which makes him an Excellent

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