Tangerine By Paul Fisher Character Analysis

In a GCA, each character has different personalities, traits, and attributes that are distinguished through different shapes, sizes, and colors. Each of the characters develop different relationships with each other, that help tell the story, which are shown through lines, arrows, and squiggles. The characters are the most important elements in a narrative story, and their relationships can help tell the story without directly saying it. In this GCA, Paul Fisher, Erik Fisher, and Luis Cruz were described as a blue-violet heptagon, a dark red pow, and a light green cloud, to symbolize the essence of each of these characters in Edward Bloor’s book, Tangerine.

To begin with, Paul Fisher is the blue-violet heptagon, to represent his different sides of himself throughout the book. In the beginning of the story, Paul was

Clouds represent kindness, friendliness, and thoughtfulness, but when something brings them down, they take action and rain down on everything. In comparison, Luis seemed nice and friendly, but “rained down” when something happened to Tino “faster than Tino thought he could, Erik lashed out, smashing the back of this hand across Tino’s face, smashing him so hard that Tino spun halfway around in the air and landed on the grass” (205). Clouds also symbolize having ideas, idealism, and imagination, like how Luis had an idea for creating a new type of citrus and successfully created it. (developed by [their] brother, Luis. It’s a new variety of citrus that he has named the Golden Dawn Tangerine”(152). The light green color symbolizes nature, calmness, creativity, and sometimes hard work(when you grow plants, you work hard sometimes). As well, Luis creatively worked hard to create the Golden Dawns, which is now part of nature. So, the light green cloud represents his ideas, personalities, and is similar to the top of the Golden Dawn trees he