He says he lost his vision because he looked at a solar eclipse but HOLD ONTO YOUR BUTTS turns out Erik merced him with the Tangerine spray paint and almost blinded him. Speaking of Paul, I gotta talk about this boy. The only use I'd have for this goddamn garbage is pitching it in the fire at the back of Paul's house where it can burn forever and scar the earth with its horrendously putrid scent. Florida in this story is like a whack ass Texas with more rain and that's not true at all, so on behalf of the the State of Florida, I say fuck you, buddy. It felt like a really bad modern take on Hamlet (I've never read Hamlet) just with lightning strikes wasting fools left and right like it's the Old Testament up in this bitch. The author evidently tried to write a adult drama about kids friggin bludgeoning each other to death but failed so he called it a kids' book and sold it as it was. Reading this book was like eating chicken shit infected with avian flu, with the writing being the chicken shit and the story being the avian flu. Hell, if I could give it two middle fingers I would. This piece of shit is an absolute and utter perversion of the English language. A great self-reflection in what it means to be growing, to be be giving, a piece of fine citrus upon the tongue. You're ahead of me all of a sudden." But I couldn't slow down. until Phoebe had to rip it from my cold dead hands. But this 7th grader is far from boring, he has a spine, a heart, and pair of glasses about an inch thick that become a lynchpin to a much darker deeper secret that had me turning the pages. So I dug in and was immediately swept up in this story about a 7th grader who moves from the boring suburbs of Houston to a strangely overdeveloped region in Florida - another suburb once proudly occupied by tangerine groves, the best in the world. I can't believe you want to read it too." Which is something I'm trying to do: read all the books my two daughters are reading, which is surprisingly easy since kids these days don't do much reading it appears at all in school. She's in 7th grade up here in Washington State and she brought it home and laid it down with a big thud and a groan and "Here it is, Dad. GradeSaver, 10 January 2017 Web.What can I tell you except my daughter Phoebe is reading this. "Tangerine Symbols, Allegory and Motifs". 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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