By the end of this story I wished Erik would give me the good old orange dream machine special so I'd never have to read anything as dogshit as this again. 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. With that said, books contain morals and it’s your job to figure out what it is.What can I tell you except my daughter Phoebe is reading this. Themes are things you could refer to in life to make you a better person. Along with symbolism, theme is a very important element to have. Symbolism is important because it makes the book have a deeper meaning and not even thinking. Because his parents told the truth, Paul could live knowing that he could trust his parents more.Īll of this points to the conclusion that, the theme that you should the truth is symbolized by the infestation which is connected to the all the lies told. And we figured that that was the best way to handle the situation” (257). But, when Paul interrogated his parents, they told him the truth, ‘“The doctors told us that you might never remember. By that happening, it shows that Paul didn’t want to tell who the people were which didn’t make the situation any better. I hit that red bar at full speed and never looked back” (252). In addition, an example of Paul not telling the truth was when Coach Warner asked who the people who crashed the Senior Awards Night ceremony were, “I didn’t hesitate. Thus, this shows that there is a reason for the infestation which means there is a reason people lie, but if you just tell the truth, there won’t be a problem. You see how that whole blue-tent street seems to be on a hill?’”(161). When they cleared this land for houses, they just set fire to all the trees and plowed them under. Also, on the same trip, Wayne said, “‘it was all groves around here. Take for example, when Wayne, a volunteer firefighter took Paul to deal with the infestation, he said, “‘it looks like that whole street has them, all along the west side’” (161).This is saying that all those termites are the lies told since there were a ton of termites. Edward Bloor uses the infestation of the mosquitoes and termites to symbolize all the lies told, which connects to the theme that you shouldn’t spend your life hiding from the truth. Overtime, Paul finds out the secrets of those around him. To summarize the novel, Paul and his family adjust to life in Tangerine. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” Tangerine by Edward Bloor uses symbolism to show that you shouldn’t hide from the truth. Spencer Johnson stated, “Integrity is telling myself the truth.
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