Persuasive Essay On Tangerine

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be temporarily blind and have to wear a certain type of glasses for the rest of your life? In that case you have come to the right place because this book we read called tangerine has many ups and downs but is a phenomenal book. This book takes you on a journey throughout the life of a kid name paul’s life, but as it may seem, it is hard for him in this world for many reasons, but there’s one that stands out above the rest. Paul is temporarily blind, now I know you guys may say “wow,I feel so bad, but how?”. Well, I would not insist on spoiling this part, but the reason why is because he looked at a solar eclipse and it affected his sight for the rest of his life. He has gone through school being bullied,
being called names, and his brother Erik makes fun of him. As Joseph P. Kennedy said, “When the going gets tough, the tough gets going”, but what that means to me and how it relates is because being bullied and made fun of so much it gets tough, but he keeps striding to bring the best to life even though life is tough.
This story is one with many bad things happening and they are tragic just like how we will all have problems.
“Mama said Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get”(tom hanks, actor in the movie Forrest Gump).This sort of tells us how life is unique and the quote tells us how anything can happen like the world being taken over for example. It is something we have to go through while living like how Paul has to go through having those glasses because of his decision to look at the solar eclipse without the proper protection. Paul goes through a lot of things in this book like he witnesses a sinkhole in his school and he decides to be brave and save other instead of thinking for himself. This brings me back to the quote “mama said life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get”(Tom hanks, actor Forrest Gump). It brings me back to that quote because he did something amazing instead of saving himself. Just imagine you pick a chocolate box with a bunch of different types of chocolate in it and you don't know what they are so you just pick one and it could be a kind you don't like which is a bad decision and it could be one you do like which is a good
decision.
A character in a book has to have a creative and unique personality right? Thinking about this question I come upon the character Erik fisher who is Paul’s brother. I come to him because he is one who plays football but starts to hang out with a bad kid named Arthur and he influences Erik to do bad things. In part of the book Erik and Arthur witness a person die by a strike of a lightning bolt. I know what you are saying, you probably are like who,what,when,how? Well they were at football practice and he grabbed onto a pole while resting then he got hit in the head.Erik and Arthur laughed about what happened to his head and where rejoicing to his death because now Erik gets his spot on the team. “The day of my birth,my death began its walk. Its walking towards me,without hurrying”(Jean Cocteau). What this tells us is how life can come at any moment in an instant and we won’t even know it. It is hard for us to cope with the death of people we are close to and maybe some we aren’t. It is sort of like when I lost my grandpa when I was three and it was five days before my birthday and it has been hard on me ever since. It can influence us to do bad things and make wrong decisions like what Erik did but really it is inconsiderate and immature doing those things even though we are weeping inside of us because of what happened. You could say Erik can be exasperate to Paul because of the things he has dont to him in the past of Paul’s life.