Nature's Power In Tangerine

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“Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction,” remarks Jules Verne. Nature’s unpredictable destruction seems to be something man cannot control. The main character, Paul, and his friends put up a constant struggle against Mother Nature, but the latter always wins. In the novel Tangerine, Edward Bloor arrays Mother Nature is stronger than man displayed through Nature’s Power. Throughout Tangerine, Paul and his family and friends consistently fight a disastrous sinkhole, a big freeze, and mysterious disappearance of some expensive koi. At school one day, Joey and Paul return from the office and notice something quite unusual happening to the portables, “Then the walkways started to heave up and down, making terrible

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