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Edward Bloor's Tangerine: Literary Analysis

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“It’s time to start telling the truth, little brother. Do you understand what I’m saying?”(269). The truth, something that takes many people to reveal in a person. In the story Tangerine, by: Edward Bloor, The truth takes a family and set of friends to help Erik Fisher, Arthur Bauer, and Paul Fisher to reveal the truth about themselves and each other, like shapes. Shapes reveal each other’s flaws and imperfections. Each of these characters has to reveal the truth about each other to create the main plot of this story. In the novel, Tangerine, by: Edward Bloor shows how the truth is a hard pill to swallow sometimes, but sometime the answer might be a 50 yard field goal away.

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