Character Traits In The Book Tangerine

¨All i ever wanted to do was hit people, is that so bad? Does that make me a bad guy?¨ (Lynch 1). Arlo disagrees that it makes him a bad person, but he agrees that Lloyd needs to change the way he plays football. At football practice the next day the football coach called Lloyd a career jay-vee player, and Lloyd took it too seriously and shortly after Lloyd quit the football for good.. Arlo still loved football so he kept playing and practicing, and he made the jayvee team as a freshman. This was a huge step for Arlo in

Which results in Boobie seriously injuring his knee and being pulled from the game. How Boobie acted in the scrimmage shows just how much successful in football means to him and the things he’s willing to do to succeed. The quotes I found that give insight into Boobie Miles are when he says " I won’t be able to play college

Introduction Marcus Dupree was a star high school football player who had a promising future in front of him. After being recruited by multiple universities and committed to the University of Oklahoma, he soon realized that he had made a mistake and started making bad choices. Thesis Describing experiences, and also stating the personal statements of Marcus Dupree and others in the documentary, injustice was done to Marcus Dupree but also to the head football coach of Oklahoma using “Letter from Birmingham Jail” as a source lens. Early age Marcus Dupree was a young, gifted running back on his high school football team. Quickly the word spread around about his talents and many football recruits from all over the country went to visit him in

The narrator longed for a brother to race, climb, and box with, but when he found out Doodle might not be able to do that, he planned his revenge: “It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable, so I began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow” (Hurst 464). Before the narrator could kill him, Doodle grins up at him, startling the narrator. Doodle was underdeveloped, any excess amount of strain on his heart could kill him. In the winter of his third year, he learned to crawl. Until Doodle could walk, the narrator had to push him around in a go kart.

Tangerine: it’s not only a citrus fruit, but a county in Florida, a middle school, and the title of an amazing book: Tangerine, written by Edward Bloor. The protagonist Paul Fisher “Eclipse Boy” or “Mars” has to fight through being kicked off the soccer team for being visually impaired, being bullied in school and not only in school, but by the antagonist, his dissolute brother Erik Fisher. He also has to constantly hear about how opinionated his dad is about his brother Erik and the “Erik Fisher Football Dream. In the beginning of the novel the readers can sense character traits that are different between Erik Fisher and Paul Fisher. Erik is very rude, disrespectful, dissolute, sneaky, and egocentric, versus his brother being very kind and caring to others.

Our next comparison concludes how the war in A Separate Peace and how Neil Perry’s parents in Dead Poets Society affects both stories deeply. The war had a constant pressure on the boys at Devon. All the characters in A Separate Peace knew that after they graduated from Devon, they would have to enlist in World War II. The character Leper Lepellier was the first to join the army and returned mentally impaired just from basic training. The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session was formed to escape this pressure, which later ended in tragedy from Finny’s death.

In the stories Lamar Loper’s First Case, How I Lost the Junior Miss Pageant, and the story Thank You, M’am, poverty is the cause of the characters problem and if poverty was nonexistent things would have been different for them. In the story Lamar Loper’s First Case the moral of the story was that money can make all the difference in someone’s life. This is because when Lamar came out of college he had to take up lower pay level cases and ended up with a man beating his wife and kid. Lamar could not believe people like this existed in the world and the only reason Simmie continued to do what he did was because his wife and son did not have the money to just up and leave. Lamar came from money and knew that he should not be dealing with stuff like his first case but in the end he did the right thing in protecting the mom and son from Simmie.

When he took Doodle to Horsehead Landing before the first day of school he fills shame of failure but he doesn't stop trying even when he knows it's fatal. (p.416) This is one of the reasons of how the brother causes Doodles death because he made him work to hard and by having little concern for Doodle and more about his pride from what he

If he escapes to another city, they will view him as a criminal and if his children came with him they would be viewed as foreigners. By breaking the law his soul would be ruined and a ruined soul is not worth living with. This goes back to when he said that the really important thing is not to live but to live well. Also, when he dies he would enter Hades as an outlaw and will not be well welcomed. Therefore, he believes that he should stay and face his execution because it is better to die than to live with a ruined soul.

Mr. and Mrs.Fisher finally found out who was robbing their neighbors and this lead to them finding out who Erik really is. And Paul finally got to find out that his parents knew the real Erik that Paul knows who he is. “I felt sorry for Dad at the moment. He had too much invested in the Erik Fisher Football Dream and he just couldn’t give up. I wanted to say, Look at Erik’s face, Dad.