No one dies, but the school grounds are condemned. One day after a torrential storm, a sinkhole opens up at Paul’s school and swallows one of the portables. There are constant muck fires smoldering under the ground there’s constant rain and flash floods and the county, it turns out, has the most lightning strikes in the entire country. Paul sees Erik and Arthur laughing about the tragedy.
Another football player, Mike Costello, gets struck by lightning during practice. The first sign of Erik’s sinister ways comes when there’s a terrible accident. Paul can tell that Erik is going to get Arthur to do bad things for him. Erik, Paul knows, has a way of manipulating people. His parents, though, are more concerned with Erik’s life.Įrik makes friends with Arthur Bauer as soon as Paul sees them together, he knows that Arthur is going to play a bad role in Erik’s life. Paul makes friends with Joey Costello, but he’s still incredibly depressed by not being able to play soccer. Because of this, Paul ends up with an IEP (an individualized education program) and he’s not allowed to play on the soccer team. But when Paul signs up for Lake Windsor Middle School, his mother tells the principal that Paul needs help because he is legally blind. Because of his bad eyes, he has special goggles that he wears when he plays. Paul loves to play soccer he’s the goalie. They also don’t seem to pay any attention to Paul. Paul’s parents are obsessed with Erik’s football career-so much so that they don’t seem to notice the sinister things about Erik that Paul notices. Erik will be the kicker for Lake Windsor High football team. Fisher will be the new director of civil engineering for Tangerine County. Fisher joins the Lake Windsor Housing Association and becomes the head of the architectural committee. Many of the groves, it turns out, are being slashed and burned to make way for new housing developments like the one that the Fisher family moves into: Lake Windsor Downs, a sterile, wealthy development where all the houses the look the same. When they arrive, Paul sees piles of tangerine trees smoldering in great heaps. Paul and his family are moving from Houston to Tangerine County, Florida-a region known for its tangerine groves. He writes about the strange vision in his journal this mysterious journal entry is how the diary-novel of Tangerine begins. As Paul packs up his house in Houston, he has a terrifying vision of Erik leaning out the window of a car, wearing a ski-mask, swinging a baseball bat at Paul’s head. GradeSaver, 10 January 2017 Web.Paul Fisher, an eighth grader with bad eyes, is afraid of his older brother, Erik. "Tangerine Symbols, Allegory and Motifs".
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6 Summary and Analysis Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format Lynch, Molly. Next Section Metaphors and Similes Previous Section Part Three: Nov. While one of the star players (Antoine) has to lie to be on the team the other star (Erik) is willing to destroy all of his relationships to ensure his success on the team. It’s depicted as the aggressive sport it’s also the sport that is the center of most of the novel’s conflict. Football (Symbol)įootball, in Tangerine, symbolizes violence. Soccer in the novel represents a unifying activity where class differences evaporate and everyone cooperates. It’s what allows Paul to become close with kids from different backgrounds from him. Soccer is the game that unites people in the novel. While Erik derides the Cruz kids for being field workers, it’s by working hard together that the family stays united. Paul loves working in the groves-as though by spending time in them he feels connected to a more substantial and solid world than the one he lives in. Unlike the houses in the Lake Windsor development that are built on top of torn-up trees, the groves have a solid foundation. The groves in Tangerine are the one thing connected to the earth by roots. On the other hand it may symbolize a revelation-a bolt of knowledge or clarity-such as the knowledge that Paul experiences in the end of the novel when he finally remembers how Erik damaged his eyes when he was a small child. On the one hand it is a violent shock that shakes up the community, as Erik and Arthur’s aggression does. Lightning can symbolize a couple of different aspects of the novel.
Lake Windsor is built on destruction of orange groves its football team is built on the lie of Antoine Thomas the Fisher family is built on the lies of their past. They also symbolize the broader tensions of a community that wants to appear perfect but has major problem. They symbolize the violence smoldering under the surface of Erik’s character. These fires symbolize other forms of suppression and lies in the novel. In Tangerine, muck fires are constantly smoldering under the surface of the earth.
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