Tangerine Case

Tangerine

Confidence thrives on honesty-Franklin D. Roosevelt. Honesty is like a a ladder you have to start at the bottom and work your way up if you hold on too loosely you'll fall off if you hold on too tightly you'll never be able to get any higher . In the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor, Paul Fisher, the main protagonist, has to go through many challenges to test his honesty. Paul test his honesty in three ways one is he tells the principle the truth about what happened at the carnival, second Antoine Thomas, another character in the book Tangerine, decides to come clean and tell everyone about something he lied about which makes Paul tell everybody about something a lot worse involving his brother, third Paul's parents decide to tell Paul something they should of told him a lot earlier.

The first way Paul shows honesty is by telling on the people that vandalized part of the carnival. When Paul got called down to the office he didn't know what was going on then his principle told him that he was getting in trouble for vandalizing the carnival, but Paul decided to say who it actually was even though it might affect him in the long run which it did but only by a kick in the but. He didn't know then but that choice would affect him in so many ways that was the first rung in the ladder of him being as honest as he could be.

Another way Paul became more honest is not a choice that Paul made it was made by a different person Antoine Thomas. Antoine Thomas was the star on the Lake Windsor High School football team but there was one bad part about that he didn't live in the right area to go that school. Because f that he had to keep it a secret and not tell anyone even his sister who made the all city soccer team and skipped the photo just to keep it a secret. Then on senors night for the football team he told the whole school what he did. He was punished but happy about it. When Antoine said that it really made Paul think about all of the things he didn't tell anybody about, But Paul did tell people about one huge situation that happened a little while before the Antoine Thomas incident. One day Paul was at the High school when he saw Erik, Paul's Brother, arguing with this person named Luis the Erik's friend Arthur comes and hits Luis with a baton type weapon and