Paul Fisher is an outsider in the city of Tangerine and even in his family, in the book Tangerine by Mike Lupica. Paul moved from Houston, Texas to Tangerine, Florida which is a big change of environment for him and he will be forced to find new friends. In his family, his brother Erik steals the spotlight as a star football kicker. That has cast a shadow on him his whole life. Paul also is legally blind, which makes it hard to fit in at his school. Throughout the book Paul becomes more confident with himself and does not care what other people thought about him. In the beginning of the book Paul was scared to move and go to a new school with no one he knew. He started to like school better by being the starting goalie and meeting some people.