Tangerine Theme Analysis

A theme from Tangerine can be “facing your fear and overcoming it”. An example can be on p.261-262 when Paul had to face Erik and Arthur in a 2v1, Paul tells him that he found out who killed Luis. Paul was thinking to himself that Arthur was an idiot for carrying the weapon and for killing Luis. Paul finally had enough courage to tell Erik that he saw him kill Luis and that he damaged all of the mail boxes. Another example can be in p263-265 when Paul had to talk to his parents about his eyesight. This is a big moment in the book because for the longest time Paul never knew about what happened to his eyes, but when Paul remembered about what happened he started to talk to his parents about it. Paul usually would never be able to talk to his parents about anything because they were also busy and Paul always

This affects me as a person because facing my fear and overcoming it is really hard to me because I usually don’t face my fear in person because I usually face my fear in dreams and I don’t like seeing it. I remember in the past when I got so mad and almost got into a rage mode which made me feel really bad in the inside. My sister got me really mad by doing something I told her not to do, but instead of myself getting really mad, I was able to handle my anger and not get really mad. I got really happy because I was able to overcome my fear of not getting really mad and not feeling really bad in the inside. A future fear is me not doing good in school or other sport activities. To me this is a big fear because when I do bad in swimming and school then I get in trouble by my parents but if I do good in swimming and school then my parents get proud of me. If I do good in swimming and school then it means I am overcoming my fear of my parents getting mad at