Paul In Amy Tan's 'The Scarlet Letter'

Many kids suffer from their family not working out. It’s a hard thing to overcome if you’re family doesn’t support you. Also, many people don’t really know who they are or where they belong in society. They spend their entire lives trying to figure out who they are like Paul did.

Also, the story ends with some casting of the first stone and Jackson (1948) prefers to leave the gruesome details to the reader’s imagination. Nevertheless, in The Rocking-Horse Winner story, after Paul’s mother learns where her money comes from, the boy claims to be lucky, but sadly he died soon afterward. Oscar tells his sister “My God, Hester, you’re eighty-odd thousand to the good and a poor devil of a son to the bad. But, poor devil, poor devil, he’s best gone out of a life where he rides his rocking-horse to find a winner.”

First, Paul shows a firm disconnect with his parents. For instance, During Paul’s leave he returns home to his mother who is fighting a battle against cancer. When Paul's mother asks him “Was it very bad out there”(161) he lies to her and explains that she “would not understand”(161) nor “realize it”(161). Also, when Paul is having a conversation with his father he describes that he has “no real contact”(165) with his father, he becomes frustrated, gets up and leaves. Meanwhile when Paul is out in the city streets he is startled by societies main source of transportation “tram cars”(165) “which resembles the shriek of a shell coming straight for one”.

Imagine, your own brother has blinded you on purpose and you now have to live with what he has curse with. Wouldn't it affect you?Other characters can and will play a part in the main character and even your life. In the novel, tangerine,Edward Bloor uses the concept of character choice and consequences to develop the main character, Paul Fisher. In part one, Paul was insecure due to the choices his kin have made.

She gave more preference on money than her family and she declared that her husband was unlucky. Paul health was deteriorating day by day and his mother got worried about his health and she suggested spending some time to seaside but Paul did not agree as he had to know the name of winning horse. This evil incarnation had taken the life of Paul as he caught with brain fever when his mother came back from a party and she found him unconscious by occurring ‘Malabar’ , ‘Malabar’, the name of winning horse. Exactly, the horse, Malabar got victory but Paul found dead on the bed.

Interpretation Paper AML2020 professor: David Hennessy student: Dany M. Lopez Self-perception of the protagonists in Paul's Case by Willa Cather and Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin Let’s compare the respective protagonists in these works according to the three stages of self-perception. First, there is sensitization and awareness when an individual begins to either feel or have homosexual desires but they are not well understood. Then, it is followed by the recognition and acceptance yet some people may not experience this phase. Finally, and perhaps in none of the cases, the integration of their sexual orientations in their new personal identities. Let’s also consider the background and the historical time of both authors Willa Cather and James Baldwin, so we can see that between theirs there were not marked differences to be highlighted.

“No fear, Mom. Show them no fear.” (page 296). In the novel, Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, the protagonist, Paul Fisher, is going through many changes in his life after moving from Texas to Florida. Those changes include external ones, his friends and the environment around him, and internal ones, his views and opinions.

From the beginning, Paul makes it known that he is unhappy with his mediocre life on Cordelia Street. Whenever “he turned into Cordelia Street he felt the waters close above his head.” (Cathers 94) Because of his unhappiness back home, he makes risky decisions such as stealing money from the company he works for and fleeing to New York City. When he arrived in New York, Paul bought himself a gun because he foresaw that he might need “a way out”. When Paul’s affair exploded in the Pittsburgh papers, he showed no regard to his father paying the firm for what he had stolen or that his father set out to go find him.

For the Fisher family to get along they have to work together but this family does not work out. The Fisher family moved to Florida and their neighborhood is a little weird ,well at least to Paul .Paul is the main character for this book. He has to wear special type of glasses ,his mom Mrs.Fisher says he looked at a solar eclipse but who knows that might not be the right information. In Edwards Bloor novel Tangerine,how Pauls choices and consequences affected his development and himself by.

Chapters 5-11 __________1. Hester chooses to stay in Boston even though she is permitted to leave. __________2. The cottage she moves into is located by the sea.

As an adult Paul still believes “it was [his] birth that made her like that” (Davies 266). His father who was the man responsible

So, Paul is convinced that by playing on his rocking horse will reveal to him the winning horse. The winning horse would be the horse that Paul would bet on and receive a sum of money. Which, he thought would make his mother happy but would only

Being independent wasn't something that Paul was able to experience, with being the oldest child out of three came with a plenty of responsibilities. In school Paul was considered a golden child he had excellent grades and was respectful of his teachers, he was well liked

Paul cannot control his behavioral outburst, and releases all his rage on the rocking horse. Paul becomes emotionally unstable, and lashes out at his mother when she catches him riding the rocking horse. The reason Paul acts this way is due to his inability to control his hyperactivity. Paul’s mental deformities are confirmation that his mother consumed alcohol while pregnant. Furthermore, Paul’s rocking horse symbolizes his delayed development due to fetal alcohol syndrome.

A cupidity of Paul’s mother. She forgets her most important role as a mother, cause she is cupidity it make Paul dead untimely. Paul is a boy and he is the main character of The Rocking Horse Winner. In this story, Paul is a boy who can do everything for his mother’s love. He is in a family that his mother believes in luck all the time.