This choice affected Paul negatively in many ways. Paul suffered a lot throughout his childhood. He was bullied, made fun of, and he felt left out. His eyes were always a big issue with him, all because his brother didn't make the right choice and in the wrong time.
(page 12) This infers that Paul is scared of Erik. In conclusion, Paul doesn’t want Erik to hurt him, so he stays in his room all day avoiding Erik. Erik calls Paul Eclipse Boy because Paul believe he lost his eye
I’m afraid Arthur now too.” Paul has a low self-esteem. He is weak and does not think that he can stand up for himself. “I can see things that Mom and Dad can’t. Or won’t.”
Eriks choices impact Paul majorly by, making him legally blind, lowering his self esteem, and killing his best friend. A choice made by Erik affects paul by making him legally blind. A while back when they still lived in Houston, Erik had a friend named Caster his previous “partner in crime” (Bloor 73). And one day, Paul got accused by Erik and Castor of snitching on them for spraying painting a wall, but Paul wasn't the one who snitched.
By remembering the incident, and the dissolute actions of his brother, Paul finally found the unflinching courage to speak about the event. After this flashback came to Paul, he irately demanded answers about why he actually lost his eyesight, and claimed that he wouldn’t actually stare at a solar eclipse for an hour like some kind of idiot, and why his parents did not expose him to the truth. In this moment, Paul found his voice and grew emotionally and mentally as a
Because of this Paul starts believing he will have to start doing things that may cost him his life in the war and may cost his mentality. “We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world, and we had to shoot it to pieces.”(pg 87). During the war, Paul loses so much, even control of himself that all he felt in the war was mostly insanity. Paul also experiences insanity by seeing so many of his comrades dying. “Besides us lies a fair-headed recruit in utter terror.
Paul felt “strange and remarkable”. Then, he remembered the real truth about his eyes. Erik pushed Paul over his limit. Paul was mad enough to tell on Erik, finally standing up to him. Erik made horrible choices.
At this part of the novel Paul finally is done with keeping quiet about Erik. In doing so, Erik comes to confront him telling him it wouldn’t work. Then, in the book, Paul says,” I raised my finger like it was loaded, and pointed it at Arthur. ”I saw you kill Luis Cruz””(Bloor 262). After saying this, Paul feels as if he is free and is no longer chained up in his lies.
From the beginning, Paul makes it known that he is unhappy with his mediocre life on Cordelia Street. Whenever “he turned into Cordelia Street he felt the waters close above his head.” (Cathers 94) Because of his unhappiness back home, he makes risky decisions such as stealing money from the company he works for and fleeing to New York City. When he arrived in New York, Paul bought himself a gun because he foresaw that he might need “a way out”. When Paul’s affair exploded in the Pittsburgh papers, he showed no regard to his father paying the firm for what he had stolen or that his father set out to go find him.
Around the same section, Erik says the name “Castor” which triggers a memory Paul had blocked for a long time, the truth behind his visual impairment and that Erik was at fault for it. This led to Paul accepting it was not his fault and he finally stopped blaming himself for it. In conclusion, Paul started off as a wimpy, fearful kid who ended up finding a lot about himself and turned out a strong, independent young man. He had an incredible arch of character development throughout the entire novel, with changes in himself and the outside of him.
At the start of the book, Paul Was too scared to confront his parents, but now he had finally gotten the guts to confront them. Obviously, Paul's choice to confound his parent about the reason he was blind affected his
By making this choice, Paul starts to talk to Luis who makes him doubt his fear of Erik, “How could I be so totally afraid, and Luis be not the slightest bit afraid, of the exact same thing? Which one of us saw it wrong” (Bloor 228)? This decision made Paul start to face his fears, which ultimately drove the ending plot and led to Paul conquering his fears. This decision is incredibly important to the plot and allows readers
(264) Paul was infuriated when he found out the truth about his eyes. Plus, even his parent’s knew but didn’t tell him. Finding out that you have been lied to basically your whole childhood really hurts, especially when everyone knows the true story except
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In addition, Paul was injured in the book and goes home and stays with her family while he recovers. He is no longer able to relate to his family, since it is very difficult to think and have emotions and at the same time with much death all around him in the war. There is much talk of how he and his friends do not think about deep things, but just think about eating and silly things. His father and people over all his people want me to tell them stories of war and hate Paul because their experiences are horrible. Paul has just returned to the fight and basically everyone in the book is wounded and dies.
