The Choices Joey Costello Made
There were many choices made throughout the book, Tangerine, by Edward Bloor. There is a character named Joey Costello. He goes to Lake Windsor Middle School, and plays on the soccer team. In the story, Joey makes many good and bad choices. His good and bad choices led to many conflicts throughout the book.
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.
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Paul and Joey both decide to save the kids in the portables that were sinking into the mud. For instance, Joey said to Paul, “No! Sinkhole, man! It’s a sinkhole! It’s opening up under the field. Look at 19!”... Joey shouted back over the din, “they must all be trapped in there!” (Bloor 81). They end up being part of the “Lake Windsor rescue brigade,” which was featured on the news. They weren’t on the news with the other kids, though. They left school early, with the majority of the other kids. They were still known as part of the “Lake Windsor rescue brigade.” Them rescuing the other kids gave them a good reputation, and were known as
Times got harder and more rough over time. Josh begin to worry about Joey, thinking he was going to get sick. Surprisingly Joey’ health was better than Josh’s health. Josh came down with a bad cough with everyday it got worse. Joey was the one who spent money to buy cough syrup for his brother. He would go to soup kitchens and beg to and bring the food back to his brother. It became harder and harder for them to stay alive each day. The only thing keeping them was that they were getting closer and closer to Lonnie. It was pretty risky for them, but
* Duncan, Vinny, and Wayne are all friends working - or wasting time - the summer before senior year in high school. Duncan is the soul, Vinny the brains, and Wayne the muscle. At the end of the previous summer, Duncan tried to save a drowning girl and failed. Not being a hero has really affected his life, particularly his relationship with his girlfriend Kim. Also, he is now terrified of swimming, especially when the nightmares come back. Duncan's summer job is with the public transit lost and found. While trying to make the hours go faster, Duncan looks through the items, especially the books and golf clubs. One day he discovers an unmarked journal with no name, which depicts sadistic animal torture experiments, boasts of arson fires, and the planning for the serial killings of three women. Duncan decides to make amends for his failure last summer by tracking down the owner of the journal by using clues left hidden in the diary. After talking with his friend Vinny, Duncan decides to turn the journal over to the police, but they do not take him seriously, so he decides to get help from Vinny, do some research at the local library, and find out where the killer works and lives so they can prove to the police the diary is for real. But in the process when Duncan finds the house of the serial killer, he decides to take a look in it but unfortunately at that very time the serial killer appears and chases Duncan to the subway station. They get into fight there and they both fell on the subway tracks in the station where they get hit by the train. Duncan luckily survives but the serial killer dies.
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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 Shane, the boy Joey was first to see the stranger riding over the edge. As he gets closer, Joey is in complete aw by the sights of the stranger Shane. Living on the land with parents that are always working for the family, Shane comes off as a gunslinger, something that Joey has always wanted to be. Throughout the story, Joey is always looking up to Shane, trying to emulate him. He wants to be just like Shane. Shane takes notice of this and plays along as not to upset the boy. He shows Joey how to shoot and to be a good gunner. His parents want Joey to not get too attached to Shane, but as a young boy, he's not intended on listening. When Shane gets into a fight with Starett, Joey becomes mad at Shane and yells to him "I hate you Shane." But when he realizes that Shane was keeping his father safe, he runs after him to apologize. In the closing scene, all Joey can do is to say goodbye to what will become a hero for his family. As Shane never looks back, we can tell that he helped out, but never really cared about Joey.
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Joey would also transfer to the new school and he would get into conflict with the other students because they would mistreat him. Joey would say something racist to Paul’s new friends which lead to Paul and Joey’s friendship ending and Joey’s transfer back to his old school (Joey wasn’t racist but due to his brother’s death he was under a lot of stress and he the other students teased him he lashed out in the heat of the moment). The two would become friends again by the end of the story after Joey repented for what he said. Paul and Tino were close friends. Paul would come over to Tino’s tangerine grove which Tino’s family owns and grows. Paul would even stay nights over at the grove helping Tino’s family keep their grove from letting their grove freeze. Paul would befriend Kerri and Tino’s older brother Luis. Luis was a kind and peaceful person so Paul and Luis would become friends rather quickly. One day, Tino came over to Paul’s house to hang out, but Erik was there to cause trouble. Erik would beat and bully both of them. When Paul and Tino went back to the tangerine grove Luis noticed their bruises then confronted Erik. While Luis’ intentions were peaceful, Erik’s wasn’t. When the two were talking Erik’s friend Arthur snuck behind Luis and hit him in the head with a steel pipe. Few days later Luis was found dead laying in the tangerine grove. This made Kerri very
One day after school Ponyboy and his friend Johnny took two Soc girls out to the movies, they were walking home when five Socs jumped them. The Socs were mad at them for taking their girls on dates. Bob (one of the Socs) was about to drown Ponyboy in a fountain when Johnny lost it and stabbed him. The Socs ran and so did Johnny and Ponyboy. After this incident they ran to a church outside of town. One day the church catches on fire.
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Macey gets involved with a Saturday group, where they go and paint a church in a bad part of the neighborhood. While they paint at the black church, an arson walks by smoking, and seeing the open cans of paint and turpentine, throws a match into the church. Setting it into blazes. The whole group, including, Macey, Austin, Venita, Lindsay, Grace, Chamique, and Davonn. They end up getting stuck because of a fire exit being blocked from the outside, because a few weeks before a 4 year old was stabbed by an intruder who got in this way. Macey’s hair caught fire while she was running out. Austin, put it out in time to save her face from burning with his shirt. Lindsay and Grace, Macey’s best friends, were very supportive when Macey’s hair all burned off and got her to a stylist to get it fixed.
In the summer of 1967 four friends were sent to the Wilkinson Home for Boys, in up state New York. In Hell Kitchen an old man was hurt during their childhood pranks of stealing a hot dog wagon and rolling it down to the subway steps. The four boys sentenced to serve six months up to one year in Wilkerson center. Where the guard molested them sexually and physically regularly. During the sexually and physical abused the boys try to avoid there family from visiting them. As for Michael he had try to void his family. In the other hand, Tommy's mother couldn't get it together to visit him and for John's mother she came up once a month. However, Father Bobby didn’t stop visit the boy in several occasion. (Sleeper) Since Lorenzo was released, thirteen years had past. The boys were now adult seeking for revenge. The trauma lead the four dealt with the trauma slightly different. As for John and Tommy were know to be the founding members of the West Side Boys and one of the deadliest member in New York.
Joey’s graduation was on a picture-perfect day. It was on one of those days where you could take a picture and slap it on a post card. It was a typical Amarillo, Texas day. It was 95 degrees Fahrenheit without a single cloud in the sky. Even the day after the graduation was scorching hot, though even the heat couldn’t dry up my ocean of sadness. This was the last day I would see my cousin.