Tangerine Character Analysis

Imagine it is dark, and you're not able to see anything. You are blind and clueless in a dangerous world. But you are with your family, your sweet, sweet family. They will look after you, and will be your eyesight. Then, you feel a presence behind you. A figure shadowing on your back. You feel a hot breath, one a demon or a dragon would breathe. You scream in terror, not knowing who or what the monster was. You then hear the laugh, the joy, of your brother. He was the predator, and you were the prey. He's laughing at your fear. How could someone be so scary, creepy even? Well, Erik Fisher, from the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, did a cruel act almost exact to this situation. Erik is so two-faced, so creepy, and so overly forceful,
Many reasons make up the fact that Erik is a controlling monster. One thing Erik does, again when he was a young kid, was force his friend Castor to do something horrible to Paul. Erik was holding open Paul's eyes, while Castor spray painted in them. This is what caused Paul to need his thick glasses. Another thing Erik did, now older, was force his friend Arthur to hit Luis Cruz with a blackjack. Luis Cruz came to fight Erik, because he was making fun of his little brother, Tino. Erik told Arthur, like the Devil would tell a demon, to hit Luis over the head, when he wasn't looking. Later that week, Luis Cruz died from this incident. An aneurysm exploded in his brain. How could Erik force two of his friends to do such awful things? Arthur and Castor were probably bad kids before Erik came into their life, but maybe Erik's forceful attitude turned their hearts rotten, rotten enough to nearly blind a little kid and even kill someone. Erik has forced his sidekicks to do awful things, which makes him a true villain. On the other hand, Paul is a very respectful kid, and lets people do what they want to do, and doesn't force anything. One thing he does throughout the whole book is not tell his dad off about caring too much about "The Erik Fisher Football Dream". He keeps this opinion to himself, because he does not want to offend him. He doesn't mention to his parents too much about his soccer dream, because he doesn't want to be selfish. He is respectful about his parents' choice on caring more about his football career, even though he doesn't believe in it. Paul knows how to be respectful, instead of forceful and selfish like