Have you ever felt like you didn’t fit in somewhere or wasn’t confident in yourself? In the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, the main character Paul Fisher struggles with confidence. He is legally blind but he can’t quite remember how that happened to him. As Paul struggles with his confidence, he feels like no one sees him, but soon he learns how to build up his confidence, and he begins to remember the story behind his eyes. Even though, Paul starts off nervous, with a low self esteem, he learns to not care what people think of him and to take every problem and make the best of it.
In the beginning of the novel Paul moves from Houston to Tangerine Florida. He moves to Lake Windsor Downs Middle School but isn’t sure about it. “Mom said, “So what do you think of Lake Windsor Middle School?” “I don’t know.” I mumbled.“ Soccer is the one thing Paul is confident about. Paul had also met a boy on the team named Joey Costello, and they …show more content…
He stared at his parents straight in their eyes and told them that he remembered what happened on that day he was blinded. Erik Fisher and Vincent Castor had sprayed spray paint straight into Paul’s eyes. No one wanted to tell Paul the truth because they didn’t want Erik and Paul to dislike each other. Paul had finally built up enough confidence to stand up to his parents for what was right thing to do. Luis Cruz had inspired Paul to become a different person, Paul looked up to Luis.
In life people go through ups and downs, people can choose to take their problems and mistakes and turn them into something bad, or they can choose to turn them into something good. Sometimes you’re just missing one little puzzle piece, and sometimes it can take a while, but once you’ve found it, the true colors show and you start to see things that seemed to be unclear, but they will soon start to become very