Choices and Consequences How do you think your choices affect others and what are the consequences of those choices? In this book, Tangerine by Edward Bloor, every decision has an effect and a consequence. Erik makes several bad decisions throughout the book. For starters, he and his brother don’t have a strong relationship. Also, the Fisher parents don’t have a solid relationship with their children. Erik’s choices impact Paul by making Paul get glasses, making him scared of his own brother, and causing him to lose friends for a certain period of time. A choice by Eriks affects Paul’s life by making him get glasses. “And I remembered Erik’s fingers prying my eyelids open while Vincent Castor sprayed white paint into them”(Bloor 263-264). Erik decided to tell his friend, Vincent Castor, to spray paint into Paul’s eyes. Erik was the one that pried Paul’s eyelids open. The reason Erik got mad was because Paul “told on” Vincent for spray painting a neighborhood wall. The effects that this decision had on Paul was that he started crying and he had to wear glasses now for the rest of his life. …show more content…
This quote shows why Paul would hate his brother. Paul remembers that his brother let his friend spray paint into his eyes and that instead of protecting his brother, Erik pries open his eyelids so that Vincent can spray paint in his eyes. The reason Erik got mad was because Paul “told on” Vincent for spray painting a neighborhood wall. The effect it has on Paul is that now he has to wear glasses and is scared of his brother because of all the mean and horrible things he has seen him