Do you have any siblings? Do you like them? If not, don’t worry, things could always be worse. For example, Erik from the novel Tangerine. The novel Tangerine centers on a middle school soccer player, who moved to Tangerine County in Florida, the move being caused by his brother, Erik, and his football dream. Even though Paul is passionate and very good at being a soccer goalie, his eyesight, caused by him looking straight into a solar eclipse when he was six, is poor. And he has to overcome how people believe he can’t see anything. Erik is feared for most of the novel, even though he stays silent and it seems to just be Paul’s paranoia in the first few chapters. Through the novel, though, it is proved that Erik Fischer is a horrible brother to Paul, yet Paul still overcomes his fear of his older brother in the end, because his brother is truly a coward. …show more content…
After Paul had run away from the scene of having assisted Tino and Victor in attacking them, Arthur, Erik’s lackey, and Erik followed Paul in a Land Cruiser and threatened revenge for the incident. For example of the threats, on page 261, Erik says “You’re gonna pay for what happened tonight.”. Erik tried to threaten and corner Paul in this way because he was angry and scared of losing his power, but he thought he could regain it by trying to scare and threaten him into submission. The way things always had been. He didn’t want Paul to feel like he had gotten away with what happened scot free, because that would mean that he would no longer have power over