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What Is The Role Of Choices In Bloor's Tangerine

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Brothers are bonded by blood, but that doesn't mean they are the same. Erik Fischer and Paul Fischer are siblings in the book Tangerine by Edward Bloor, but they are not the same. Erik’s choices affect the development of the main character, Paul. This is shown when Erik spray-paints Paul in the face as a child, Commanding Arthur Bauer to hit Luis on the head with a blackjack, and when he slapped Tino across the face.4444 A major choice In Tangerine by Edward Bloor is when we see that Erik Fischer impairs his brother's vision by spraying him in the eyes with spray paint when he was 5. Paul says, “I remember Erik’s fingers prying my eyelids open while Vincent Castor sprayed white paint into them” (Bloor 263). This leaves Paul legally blind with special glasses to see and Paul being completely oblivious to the truth. …show more content…

Erik's choice to blind his brother has caused emotional damage and physical damage to Paul. 4444 Choices made by Erik in Tangerine by Edward Bloor can significantly impact Paul and other people. We see this in the second choice Erik made when he ordered Arthur Baeur to hit Luis with a blackjack. “Arthur reached Luis, turned, and whipped the blackjack around with a loud whack against the side of Luis's head.”(Bloor 211)When Luis is killed by the head trauma by the blackjack causing a brain aneurysm to burst, killing him. Paul is upset over the loss of a friend but his guilt for not saying anything about him getting him is the worst for him. This all goes to show that the choices that Erik made effects Paul greatly. 4444 The final choice that Erik made, that impacted Paul was when Erik slapped Pauls's friend, Tino across the face. Tino and Paul were at Paul's house and Erik and Tino got into a

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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.

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When Paul was young, Erik and a friend of his put spray paint in Paul’s eyes, which left Paul a visually impaired person for the rest of his life. “And I remembered Erik’s fingers prying my eyelids open while Vincent Castor sprayed white paint into them. ”(Bloor 263) Erik accused Paul of telling on the teachers and getting Castor in trouble.

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The first big choice that Erik made that affected Paul was when he hit Tino in the face.(205) “Immediately, faster than I thought he could, faster than Tino thought he could, Erik lashed out, smashing the back of his hand across Tino’s face, smashing him so hard that Tino spun halfway around in the air and landed on the grass. Erik did this because Tino made fun of him and he got angry. This affected Paul because he didn't do anything, it made him feel small. Paul says, “ I just stared back at her, paralyzed with fear, while the scene rolled on.”(204) This shows that Paul knew Erik was going to do something bad, he did nothing.

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