Paul Fisher In Tangerine

Introduction Imagine moving to Florida. The first thought that probably forms in your brain is the perfect place - palm trees and sunshine, and maybe even some tangerines. Well that is not how the main character, Paul Fisher, experiences it at all. The protagonist in the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor has an entirely different experience. Whether it is the bad weather, his school, or his big-bad brother, he definitely isn’t living a paradise. This companion book jumps into Paul Fisher’s complicated life. In the first two chapters of the companion book, you analyze his first experiences in his new home where you can see his family and himself struggle and how they deal with certain situations which can tell the reader about their personality.
When it comes to the rain, she knows she can’t change the weather, but she can change the football practices so they are not playing in lightning storms. “On our way to the parking lot, she said, ‘These boys shouldn’t be out in a thunderstorm...Why can’t they practice in the morning, when it doesn’t rain? This is ridiculous. When you know it’s definitely going to rain at exactly the same time every day…’ ” (Bloor 29-30). From this line, the reader can see that the mom is very passionate. This line is a little bit of foreshadowing for the solution-to-come. After this personal encounter with the players in the rain she gets confused on why they still practice in the afternoon. A chapter or two later, you see why the mother was concerned with the safety of the football players. On page 49, you learn that Mike Costello had died. He had died because of a lightning strike as he was playing football in the daily thunderstorm. That is when the mother’s plan goes into action. She organizes a carpool for the boys so that they are all able to practice football in the morning with no