Erik- Tangerine (Monday Write) 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. In the book, there is a part where it shows how the parents favore Erike. Erik is always perfect to them with his talent and perfect eyesight. “As usual when Erik appears, the attention switched from me to him.” This quote proves that Erik …show more content…
“When I finally looked right into Erik's eyes, I was surprised by what I saw. It was not hatred, or even anger. It was more like sorrow. Or fear.” In here, Erik is vulnerable, he is scared of what the consequences are. But he wouldn't have to worry because he is the star player and perfect in everyone's eyes and the dad is going to make sure of that. "’Hey, check it out. It's Mohawk Man's brother.’ Arthur stopped and started at Joey. He answered on their cruel wavelength. ‘I didn't know Mohawk Man had a brother.’ 'Yeah you did, butthead. The shoes! He was trying to take Mohawk Man's shoes!' The two of them started to laugh. Erik said, ‘It's the hair that fooled you. No family resemblance.’ Arthur picked up the banter. ‘No. No resemblance. None at all.’” in this quote, Erik makes fun of paul's dead brother and how he got struck by lightning and half of his hair burnt off. Erik is showing no respect for Paul's dead brother, therefore not having a sole. Erik is a harsh person, rude, selfish, and soulless. These character traits will cause evil to rise up in him and finally pushing away friends and family resulting in ending up alone. I know this because I once had a friend who only cared about herself, never saying thank you, always trying to draw attention to her things and her stories. She never told anyone how much she appreciated them for doing something or being their friend. After a year almost all of her friends, including me, left her because we felt like dogs trying to treat their
Paul Fisher endures a great deal of obstacles in the novel Tangerine, to him being kicked off the soccer team because of an I.E.P paper his mom filled out and a underdog in his own family, due to his athletic brother who plays football, Erik Fisher; as well as having a shaky memory. However in spite of all of that, Paul does his absolute best to hold his head high, have self-confidence, and overcome these
Paul’s parents prove to be threshold guardians when they favor Paul’s brother Erik, and hide how Paul really lost his eyesight. To start, Paul once, accused his father of favoring Erik, and Paul’s dad just makes an excuse for himself by telling Paul,”All I can say, in my own defense is that this was a critical season for Erik. College
Luis’ words motivate and show Paul that he should stop fearing flat people like Erik and Arthur. Bloor reveals through Luis’ advice that Paul is forming into a more dynamic character. Paul realizes that Luis can help him get past his fear of them. Luis emphasizes to Paul that the boys are not all that they make themselves out to be, and he explains that by calling them “punks”.
Each person has a distinct, identifiable personality. These personalities are the basis of who we are and how we live our lives. Growing up, these personalities are formed through associations and manipulations of the personalities of others. This is clearly evident in Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. In this novel, we follow Duddy Kravitz's life from early adolescence to adulthood. Throughout the novel, signs are given as to the development of Duddy's good and bad personalities. Even at the early stages, Duddy's uncle Benjy was the only one who could identify them and knew what the end result was going to be. Despite all this, we watch these personalities grow to the point where they are beginning to overpower each other and eventually, only one will remain.
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.
In this heart-felt novel, Reuben’s asthma greatly influences his character because he becomes troubled from the arduous effects of his ailment. A quote to show the troubles his asthma puts him through is when Reuben awakes to no breath. One alarming morning, he jumps conscious and explains, “…my breath was gone. Anyone would panic. I thrashed and lurched and arched my back,” (183). The previous quote reveals that he must suffer a sense of vulnerability, knowing not many eleven-year old boys his age have trouble to often find a breath of air. As a result, Reuben is forced to live life, knowing he is not as strong as others, physically. In addition, Swede and Reuben face a quarrel with one another while at their stay with Roxanna. This argument leads to them wrestling one another, and Reuben explains how, "She wiggled away and stood over me, and I was a gasping ruin,” (186).This quote sorrowfully explains how although Reuben Is older, he physically lacks dominance compared to Swede. She ends up overpowering Reuben in their physical brawl. From this, he would sorrow over the fact that Swede had tantalized him by observing his weakness. Being the healthier, vigorous sibling compared to Reuben, she often aids him, due to his asthma. Peculiarly, Swede has lost some vision towards Reuben as a older-brother figure, ...
The theory about being a by-product of your own thoughts, feelings and experiences would explain the need for Erikson to venture off in search of his father. He needed to fill the void and that is why he left home so young in life, searching for something he probably would never find. Being a wanderer, Erikson probably came across all walks of life that had influenced him in one way or the other and this can be a good thing, but the stories do not tell if anything negative had happened to him, which as well would have an impact on him. It struck me though that Anna Freud told Erikson to, basically let it go and give up the notion that he will ever know his real father. She may have been right, he may never have met his biological father and having the fantasies can lead to expectations of himself that he may never be able to uphold. Erikson felt that development functions on the principles of epigenetics (Boerre,2006). In that he says that if a stage is interrupted it will ruin the chances of the stage fully developing, losing a sense of self and missing the opportunities that come with each stage. I agree, and that Erikson was right in this respect. If a baby does not reach his milestones according to schedule, we look into possible delays and disabilities. So it wouldn’t be any different if in the later stages of life, when one misses milestones that we would do the same
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.
In the book Midwinterblood there are 7 short story's. If I had to pick one, I would have to pick the second story. The reason I picked the second story is because it is very mysterious and contains a lot strange things. One of the strange things that occur in this section is the little boy Eric. The little boy Eric is different because he carries around a rabbit that he portrays to love more then his mother. Eric is also non responsive to everybody, if he does he usually says thing that don't make sense to the other characters in the book. In the book Midwinterblood Erik is definitely the main character that all the stories revolve
Eric Erikson (1902-1994) was born in Frankfurt, Germany. He never knew his own father and was raised by his mother and stepfather. He struggled with his identity during youth as he never felt fully accepted by his stepfather. However he did adopt his
The short story, "The Rich Brother," by Tobias Wolff represents the same concept that everyday people all over the world encounter. This portrays how having siblings can be an enormous part of a persons life. The rivalry between siblings is often very competitive, but at the same time similar to magnets. When they are not connected it may seem they are independent and whole, but when examined closely it is obvious they are really relying on each other to function properly. Although Pete and Donald's life are separate and completely different, they are in fact very dependent on each other.
Erik H. Erikson was a significant psychologist that greatly changed the field of child development. In the 1950’s, Erikson advanced a Freudian approach in development. He viewed that social development as a series of eight challenges that people have to overcome. Each challenge has an outcome that’s either favorable or unfavorable. The outcome drastically affects a person’s personality. For example, in a favorable outcome, the result can leave a positive feeling. With a positive outlook, it’s easier for a person to cope with challenges in life. An unfavorable outcome can leave a person at a disadvantaged for the future. During the first couple challenges, Erikson believed that the caregiver has a great impact on a child’s development (Romero).
The first stage of Erikson’s theory occurs in infancy, which occurs roughly from birth to 18 months. Infancy is an important stage according to Erikson’s theory. In this stage, the individual learns how to trust other individuals. If all the individual’s needs are met in this stage...
The identity stage, in Erikson’s theory, precedes the intimacy stage so there are many similarities and connections between the two. The author will analyze identity and intimacy, which are two of the eight stages in Erikson 's theory that people normally go through in life.
Also as I was a toddler (play age), if I did a mistake my parents wouldn’t shame me about my mistakes, but they would do the right thing by showing me how to do it right, which promotes autonomy, which it would also help me to make the right decision. When I first started to go to school (school age), I was raised to be a hard worker, to work with industry, meaning that success doesn’t work with hard work, and that’s a method I use till now. And this where it gets harder for me, my adolescence years. In these year people find out who they are in life, to be honest I’m 19 years old and I still don’t know where I’m going in my life, I really don’t know what is the cause of this, I don’t like to blame people. Hopefully journey in college helps find where I belong at. I might be curious, confident in my choices, and a hard worker, but I’m still on the journey of finding myself, and that’s how I relate to Erik’s identity formation.