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Tangerine… “The good times of today are the sad quotes of tomorrow” by (Bob marley) at brainqoutes.com. Paul’s mom and dad had to move from Texas to a new state named Florida. Before that happened Paul saw things that anyone else couldn't so he kept having visions that erik his brother was trying to kill him. His mom thought that it was just his vision because he couldn’t see very well. So mom let it fly and told blamed his visions on paul’s eyesight and paul got upset because nobody would listen to paul and if they did they wouldn’t believe paul all they would do was blame it on his eyesight. so paul got upset and he wasn’t very happy with his mom at the moment. After that, Mom calls the fire department. The reason why she did that is because she thought the house was on fire. The fire department came and they told paul and his mom that it was the muck fires and that they would never stop burning. …show more content…
Paul and his mom were having a conversation about paul moving to Tangerine middle school. And not Lake Windsor middle school because they had a sinkhole and paul and one of his friends had to go save a lot of people and it was really scary to paul. So now paul doesn’t want any more sinkholes where he has to save people again and paul. Another reason why he would like to attend Tangerine middle school is just to play soccer because paul tends to love soccer. After that paul started telling his mom that she ruined pauls life at the Lake Windsor middle school and it all started when his mom turned in that IEP (Pg. 93-94). Paul wants to attend to Tangerine middle school so he can play
No doubt, his friends make a big impact on Paul’s perspective and the process of understanding. Joey, one of Paul’s good friends at Tangerine, transfers to Tangerine Middle with Paul after the sinkhole at Tangerine. Once joey transfers to Tangerine Middle his attitude changes and he talks to Paul about leaving the soccer team and joining football in high school. “I took the ugliness of Joey’s words,
Paul does feel guild of abandoning his mother but handles it by running away, opposed to Dunny who is trying to pay off his guilt or not by forgetting it even happened like Boy. To accomplish this, he lives as a new person and takes on the persona of this great and mysterious magician.
In the high criminal neighborhood where the other Wes lived, people who live there need a positive role model or a mentor to lead them to a better future. Usually the older family members are the person they can look up to. The other Wes’s mother was not there when the other Wes felt perplexed about his future and needed her to support and give him advises. Even though the other Wes’s mother moved around and tried to keep the other Wes from bad influences in the neighborhood, still, the other Wes dropped out of school and ended up in the prison. While the author Wes went to the private school every day with his friend Justin; the other Wes tried to skip school with his friend Woody. Moore says, “Wes had no intention of going to school. He was supposed to meet Woody later – they were going to skip school with some friends, stay at Wes’s house, and have a cookout” (59). This example shows that at the time the other Wes was not interested in school. Because Mary was busy at work, trying to support her son’s education, she had no time and energy to look after the other Wes. For this reason, she did not know how the other Wes was doing at school and had no idea that he was escaping school. She missed the opportunities to intervene in her son’s life and put him on the right track. Moreover, when the author was in the military school, the other Wes was dealing drugs to people in the streets and was already the father of a child. The incident that made the other Wes drop out of school was when he had a conflict with a guy. The other Wes was dating with the girl without knowing that she had a boyfriend. One night, her boyfriend found out her relationship with the other Wes and had a fight with him. During the fight, the other Wes chased the guy and shot him. The guy was injured and the other Wes was arrested
In the book, Tangerine, written by Edward Blur, Erik is the main character's brother. Erik is a successful football player and he always has mom and dad supporting him. Erik might be very good at football, but he also has some “not” special things about him. He is selfish, but along with it is rude and soul-less. His parents help him keep his place as a star football player by trying to cover up all the mistakes he has made and making him perfect in almost everyone's eyes.
Paul in “Paul’s Case” wanted to get away from the reality and the hostile environment he faced. He was sick of Pittsburgh and the middle-class, Cordelia Street, which he lived on. Although his mother past away, his home life was as normal as could be. This is something Paul hated, normality. At school he would tell other students false stories to try to make his life seem more interesting than theirs. This ultimately caused none of the other students like him, even the teachers lash out at him. Paul was suspended from school, but he didn’t mind. He found an interest in music and in art, although he knew his father would not approve. Paul’s father wanted him to be a business man, have a normal family and have an ordinary life. Although, having a normal, ordinary life was not what Paul had in mind for his future. He dreamt of much more which caused him to believe he would never get his father’s approval.
He has been bullied most of his life about being visually impaired. Paul is used to being judged by others. The injury to his eyes supposedly occurred by looking at a solar eclipse but there is more to this story. More than his parents have been telling him. Paul playing soccer is contradictory to his blindness. While playing soccer, he participates and plays like everyone else. He is moving beyond his disability. In fact, Paul is an outstanding goalie, “The ball stuck in my outstretched hand like they were Velcro.” The soccer field is the only place he is able to do this, not at school, not at home, and not in his community. Paul has to leave Lake Windsor to be able to play soccer in Tangerine. The kids in Lake Windsor are snotty, rich, and self-centered but the kids in Tangerine are hard working, resourceful, and proud. During their first soccer game, Paul described the game as, “The Palmetto players got down and dirty right away, and their fans cheered them on.” The Palmetto players were bearfaced when it came to playing rough. The kids from Tangerine were used to being picked on by others in society and not being treated fairly. Paul observed, “I looked at my teammates, the victims of all of this, and was amazed at how calm their faces were.” Paul learns through soccer how teams like towns may be mean or unfair to
As a child Paul and Norman were very much the same, for they both seeked love from their father but, growing up Paul strayed from his fathers teaching. We see that in fly fishing; Paul leaves the four tempo technique, and creates a technique called shadow casting. Paul seeks attention, for example when he danced with the Native American girl all eyes were on them due to the provocative dancing or Native American. Paul loves being in the center of attention whenever; he came home he would often tell stories with both parents giving him full attention. Paul’s character was very boisterous and quick-tempered. Paul tended to start fights and cause a scene. Paul is not reserved, and he will quickly tell you how he feels. Paul is a very independent person, and he does not like to receive help; for example after the gambling scene Paul tries to dissuade Norman away from helping him. Paul is not one to follow other people’s example, but rather sets examples like fly fishing. Paul has an alcohol and gambling problem, and he knows, but he refuses help due to his pride. Paul was equally loved as a child, but he craved for attention as an adult because he did not know what to do with the love that was given to him. In the movie Paul started to really act out when Norman came home, and perhaps this was because he felt as if he was in Norman’s shadow. Norman was called the “professor” in the family because he went to college, but Paul never left Montana, and he could never achieve what Norman achieved perhaps that is why he acted so immaturely to receive
Paul believes that everyone around him is beneath him. He is convinced that he is superior to everyone else in his school and in his neighborhood. He is even condescending to his teachers, and shows an appalling amount of contempt for them, of which they are very aware.
"Paul’s Case." Short Stories for Students. Ed. Kathleen Wilson. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 192-209. Short Stories for Students. Gale. Web. 21 Jan. 2010.
In the beginning of the story, Paul seems to be a typical teenage boy: in trouble for causing problems in the classroom. As the story progresses, the reader can infer that Paul is rather withdrawn. He would rather live in his fantasy world than face reality. Paul dreaded returning home after the Carnegie Hall performances. He loathed his "ugly sleeping chamber with the yellow walls," but most of all, he feared his father. This is the first sign that he has a troubled homelife. Next, the reader learns that Paul has no mother, and that his father holds a neighbor boy up to Paul as "a model" . The lack of affection that Paul received at home caused him to look elsewhere for the attention that he craved.
"Paul’s Case." Short Stories for Students. Ed. Kathleen Wilson. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 192-209. Short Stories for Students. Gale. Web. 21 Jan. 2010.
Besides helping his father, Paul went to school at the North Grammar School to learn to read and other basics. When Paul was thirteen, he became his father’s apprentice and he had to keep the shop clean and other simple tasks. As Paul grew older he learned how to make a teapot. Paul trained under his skilled father for six years and showed excellent skill. When Paul’s father died, he
Do you know the meaning of AU 6+12 or AU 1+4+15? To many people, these are simply letters and numbers that have no significant meaning, but to Paul Ekman, these are important codes used to describe facial expressions for particular emotions. AU 6+12 means happiness and AU 1+4+15 means sadness. These codes are part of the Facial Action Coding System which Paul Ekman helped develop. He has studied the importance of facial expressions and how these expressions can be used to know when someone is lying or not. Many of us have heard the saying, “Actions speak louder than words.” Paul Ekman certainly agrees and through his studies, he has discovered a person’s facial expressions gives away their real mood.
One quote that represents this is from the track “Home”, when Phillip Phillips sings,“The trouble it might drag you down, when you get lost you can always be found, just know you're not alone.” Here, Phillips seems to be saying that no matter what happens in life, someone will be there to assist. Another quote that illustrates this message is from his song “Gone, Gone, Gone.” The lyrics read,“When you fall like a statue, I’m gon’ be there to catch you.” Similarly, these lyrics indicate that even through hard times, you will be helped. In this first album by Phillip Phillips, he displays how he will write his next songs and albums to come. Broadly, his next album will likely be a mix of pop and rock with an uplifting
King, Stephen; Jensen, Richard,(1995) Bob Marley's "Redemption Song": The rhetoric of reggae and Rastafari Journal of Popular Culture 29.3