Tangerine Character Anaylais

In most people's lives, there comes a point in time where their lives changes abruptly for them. In Edward Bloors' "Tangerine" is a story about a boy named Paul that has a vision disability and he goes from a boring life to having many friends and confidence life. In the story, Paul goes to having no friends, no support from his parents, no one caring about him and having no self confidence to having his parents supporting him, many friends, and having all the confidence in the world.

As the book "Tangerine" progresses Paul gets more confidence. One of the major events that shows that Paul is getting more confidence is when the sinkhole happens at his school. When the sinkhole happens many of the portables go into the ground and Paul and Joey are one of the many students that help students and teachers get out of the portables. Paul doesn't just get his clothes dirty he also gets his glasses dirty. As he was going to the cafeteria where everyone else was, people were saying,” good job” and congratulating him for what did. Then all of a sudden he sees his old soccer teammate and he grabs Paul's glasses and cleans them while saying," Your the best four-eyed Martian soccer goalie in the county." One of the reasons why this is an important event is Paul’s soccer teammate doesn't make him feel bad because he was kicked off the soccer team. When he was first kicked off the soccer team he started to get a little teary eyed because soccer is Paul’s passion. This quote from the book also shows that he is starting to get a feel for his new school since he just moved from Houston, Texas. This is one of the major changes that Paul goes through in the novel.

In the beginning of the book Paul is always shy about his social life but as th...

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...from every public school in the county but by letting Tino go he only got three weeks of suspension. As the story develops, Paul transform from being a self conscious and cowardly boy to a more self confident boy.

In the beginning of the novel Paul was extremely self-conscious about himself, didn’t have many friends, didn’t take risk and extremely afraid to conquer his fear. As the novel progresses he changes by getting use to the county and being the team captain on the Tangerine soccer team. In the beginning Paul would never tell Sargent Rojas about his brother Erik and Arthur but by the end novel he told him and he as all the confidence in the world. By the end of the novel Paul’s life dramatically changes from being a coward, not having any friends, no one caring about him to having countless friends, all the confidence that he needs, and conquering his fear.