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
Even though Paul hates his glasses, he thinks that they let him see see things that his parents don’t want to see because he is blind. “‘I saw him do
Regardless they came up with a brutal punishment, they spray painted his eyes. Which made him legally blind. And for his whole life paul was lied too on how he became blind, he was told that he stared into a lunar eclipse too long. So when all the kids asked why he had those big glasses on he told them what he thought was the truth, and for that reason they just laughed, pointed, and bullied him.
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
A moment when Paul encountered his insanity is when he talked with
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.
“‘Yeah. Why not?’”(Bloor 172). Paul’s character is now less afraid of Erik and Arthur, who have been mean to him for a while. Paul, when he told on Erik, is now hated by Erik, but is a hero to his parents. In conclusion, because of some reasons, like when Erik killed Luis, Paul tells on Erik, and his character becomes more
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.
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
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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.
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.
He talks about how Paul and Epaphroditus have sacrificed so much for the works of
