Figurative Sight In Tangerine
In the novel Tangerine the motif of sight presents the difference between the literal and figurative sight in several different characters. As normal as this sounds, in Tangerine Paul a seventh grader with huge glasses has a horrible peripheral vision, while his senior brother Erik has wonderful eyesight and no glasses. Even though this is true, Paul notices all the little things in life that most people do not. For example, Paul watches all the osprey stealing the Koi when everyone else in Lake Windsor Downs is convinced people are fishing at night and burglarizing all the fish. In the book Paul figuratively see everything, from everyone getting “absorbed” into the Erik Fisher Football Dream to being close to the only person noticing Erik’s