The 2006 fictional novel, “Tangerine” written by Edward Bloor is about the mystery of Paul’s eyes and the secrets to unlocks the truth behind Paul’s vision. Edward Bloor uses Paul’s eyesight to show the understanding of the character's family and friends. It shows his viewpoint on things and how Paul sees his problems. Through the motif of vision Paul, the main character, grows his understanding on his friends, family, and himself. 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, …show more content…
“‘I gotta tell you, you’re comin’ in here with the wrong attitude’” (151). In these quotes, Paul is noticing that Joey is changing and that the death of his brother changed how Joey sees things. By Joey’s comments, it affects Paul and hurts his feeling by the darkening words as he talks to Paul. Also, Gino, one of Paul’s friends at Tangerine Middle, recognizes Paul for his bravery during the sinkhole and the unfairness of Coach Walski decision. “ Someone snatched my glasses away from me, right out of my hands. It was a big guy, with a towel, and he proceeded to wipe them clean. He said, “Mars, my man! Good work out there.” … “They should have bent the rules for you, Mars. They bent the rules for the other guys, lots of them, so
The main character, Paul, joins the Lake Windsor Middle School soccer team, and Joey becomes friends with Paul. He thinks that him being friends with Paul would be a normal friendship. With what happens later in the story proves that it wasn’t any usual friendship. The friendship led to Erik, Paul’s big brother, making fun of Joey. Mike Costello, Joey’s older brother, was struck by lightning at his football practice. Joey was trying to help the already dead Mike by taking off Mike’s shoes. Erik first made fun of Mike, calling him mohawk man. He called Mike mohawk man because the lightning singed off half of the hair on his head, making it look like he had a mohawk. Then he made fun of Joey for getting Mike’s shoes off.
Tino gets mad at his rude and impolite comments, so he makes fun of Erik and his humiliating play in football. Erik can not handle the humiliation and disrespect that he is getting and punches Tino. After punching Tino, he goes back into the house and turns back to face Paul. Throughout the story, he makes fun of Paul by calling him a martian.
When Paul and his comrades have to experience Kemmerich's suffering death, they all knew that Kemmerich will pass away, yet they still told him that it was going to be okay and that he will get to go back home and meet his family. In that part of the chapter, Paul really shows a lot of support towards Kemmerich, and it shows how good of a friend Paul is. Sadly, they were right about Kemmerich’s death, but Paul they still tried to make him
As previously stated, in the beginning of the book, Paul was super quiet, shy, and lonely. In fact, his only friend was his mom. Paul never tried to change anything, and never made his voice heard. He had terrible self esteem - mainly because he felt it was his fault he was blind, and had to
Joey’s social relationships have also been impacted by his behavior. He has experienced social rejection and even social isolation. The other students call him Zippy due to his hyperactivity. When moved to the special education classroom, Joey befriends a boy named Harold and meets another friend, Charlie, when sent to the special education center. Making new friends with others that also have disabilities gave them something in common.
His parents lied to Paul his whole life. They said, “ We wanted to find a way to keep you from always hating your brother.” Erik is a bully and blind to appropriate social behavior. Erik thinks he has discretion over everyone else. He is a star kicker for the High School football team, and hopes to play in college and then professional ball. He jokes about a football teammate being killed by lightning. Erik tells Arthur, his ball holder and sidekick goon, to punch Tino’s big brother Luis, and hits him on the head with a “blackjack” club. Luis then dies of an aneurysm about a week later. Erik is blind to how his actions affect others. He is not able to take accountability for what he does to other people. He is not accountable for the harm he has caused Paul, Luis, or anyone else. If he is good at football he acts like he can be an exception to the rules of
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.
...onas which cause him to overlap his personas making him overlap his names with his different personas. Paul who has now lost control feels powerless and obediently listens to Ousia about going to the police serving his time and then coming out of prison to live a happy life with her and Flan.
Within Oliver Sacks, “To See and Not See”, the reader is introduced to Virgil, a blind man who gains the ability to see, but then decides to go back to being blind. Within this story Sacks considers Virgil fortunate due to him being able to go back to the life he once lived. This is contrasted by Dr. P, in “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat”, Sacks states that his condition is “tragic” (Sacks, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat (13) due to the fact that his life will be forever altered by his condition. This thought process can be contributed to the ideas that: it is difficult to link physical objects and conceptualized meanings without prior experience, the cultures surrounding both individuals are different, and how they will carry on with their lives.
Pauls's Case is the story of a young man who struggles with his identity. Paul feels that he knows where he belongs, but his family and teachers refuse to support his choices. In the middle of Paul's Case, there is a switch in narration. At this point, the reader can associate with Paul and his problems. Paul struggles with both internal and external conflicts, causing him to be quite a puzzling character. From tha perspective of his family and teachers, Paul seems abnormal. From his perspective, however, he seems misunderstood.
In Raymond Carver's "Cathedral," the husband's view of blind men is changed when he encounters his wife's long time friend, Robert. His narrow minded views and prejudice thoughts of one stereotype are altered by a single experience he has with Robert. The husband is changed when he thinks he personally sees the blind man's world. Somehow, the blind man breaks through all of the husband's jealousy, incompetence for discernment, and prejudgments in a single moment of understanding.
Don’t judge a book by its cover. We have all heard this cliché at least once in our lifetime. But how many times have we ever followed through with this expression? The author Raymond Carver writes about an experience where a couple is visited by the wife’s acquaintance Robert, whose wife has recently passed. The fact that Robert is blind belittles him in the eyes of the narrator, causing tension and misjudgment. In “Cathedral”, Carver uses irony, point of view, and symbolism to show the difference between looking and truly seeing.
conscious and subconscious mind. In a novel, the emotions of an author are manifested as a story of a protagonist and his world. The protagonist is created as the author’s persona, and the setting of the story parallels events from the author’s past. In Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, the protagonist Alex DeLarge is a direct projection of Burgess’s psyche. Analysis of Burgess’s childhood confirms the psychoanalytic theory that Alex and his fictional experiences within A Clockwork Orange are the result of thoughts, fears, and desires that were suppressed by Burgess’s conscious mind throughout his life. Just as Burgess did, Alex struggles with developing and maintaining healthy relations, the choice between what is “right” and what is “wrong”, and the challenge of growing up.
When defining the word blindness, it can be interpreted in various ways. Either it can be explained as sightless, or it can be carefully deciphered as having a more complex in-depth analysis. In the novel Blindness, Jose Saramago depicts and demonstrates how in an instant your right to see can be taken in an instant. However, in this novel, blindness is metaphorically related to ‘seeing’ the truth beyond our own bias opinions.