Tangerine Part Three: Nov. Summary and Analysis. Summary. Nov. 2. 0 Paul invites his friends over to his house for the first time. Theresa, Tino ,and Henry get dropped off by Wayne.
The plan is that they’ll use Paul’s computer to work on their science project. Tino is uncomfortable in Paul’s big house. Theresa is amazed. Paul is happy to share. After working on the project, Paul invites them out back to kick the soccer ball. As they’re playing, Paul hears a disturbing sound: Erik and Arthur have pulled into the driveway and are arriving home. ![]() Paul doesn’t know what to do. He doesn’t have time to get his friends out of the yard, but he knows there’s going to be trouble. Sure enough, when Erik and Arthur come through the gate and see his friends, they start making fun of them for being farm laborers. ![]() Paul is furious but he doesn’t know what to say. He tells his friends to ignore them, but Tino stands up to Erik. As he does, Arthur takes his blackjack out of his gym bag. Erik tells him to put it away. But then Tino tells him that he saw his flop on the field. He starts to make fun of Erik. Erik hits Tino across the face so hard that Tino spins around before he hits the ground. Paul is horrified, but he’s still paralyzed. He doesn’t know how to stand up to Erik, who looks into his eyes for a moment in a very strange way. Paul thinks he sees fear—or maybe even sorrow. Erik walks away, leaving Paul and Tino on the ground. Tino is bleeding. He doesn’t want any help from Paul. Paul glances up and sees something move on the balcony—like a white shirt. He wonders if his dad saw what happened. Paul’s friends leave upset. Wayne picks them up. Paul is left alone, wondering what he could’ve done differently. Nov. 2. 1 Paul and his mom go to their storage box to drop off some things. ![]() While they’re there, Paul’s mom locks her key into the box. She panics for a moment, but then remembers that Erik also has a key. Paul asks why Erik has a key. She shrugs and says he asked for one. Paul and his mom drive to Lake Windsor High where Paul’s mom has a meeting with a counselor. It turns out that Erik’s grades are slipping. Fisher goes in to talk, she tells Paul to go watch the football practice. But Paul doesn’t want to face Erik, so he hides under the bleachers. Practice is over and a bunch of players are hanging around—Erik and Arthur included. Antoine Thomas is sitting on the bleachers with some other friends. While Paul watches from under the bleachers, Luis drives up. Plot summary, trailer, cast and crew information, and user comments. A Second New Beginning. The focus of the summary of Tangerine by Edward Bloor shifts as Paul enrolls in a new school. Readers should pay close attention to how Paul. PinkMonkey.com - 460+ Free Online Book Summaries. Hundreds of Study Guides on Demand 24/7. Tangerine study guide contains a biography of Edward Bloor, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory (Metropolis Part 2) (1999) CD NEW/SEALED: USD $6.88: Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory - Dream Theater (Vinyl Used Very Good). Calcium in the Vegan Diet. Summary: Calcium, needed for strong bones, is found in dark green leafy vegetables. He comes over to the players and asks which one is Erik. He confronts Erik about hitting a kid. Erik says something to Arthur, who takes out his blackjack and hits Luis across the head. Luis falls to the ground. He starts bleeding. ![]() Erik and his friends walk away laughing. Antoine Thomas, who saw it all, isn’t laughing. Antoine helps Luis up, checks if he’s okay, and walks him back to his truck. Paul’s mom comes out, oblivious to everything. She and Paul drive back home and she cheerfully says that the counselor thinks that Erik’s grades will improve after football season. Nov. 2. 3 The temperature drops suddenly, and Paul’s mom wants to get the family their warm clothes from the storage bin. Erik says that he left his key to the bin in his locker. Paul’s mom decides to ask the maintenance people at Lake Windsor Downs if they have a spare key. When Paul goes to school he sees that a lot of the kids are absent. Henry tells Paul that they’re all at their groves, fighting the freeze. Henry explains that families that depend on citrus and vegetables need their kids to say home to help them fight off the cold. They build bonfires, he says, among other things to fight the cold. Paul wants to go help the Cruz family save their tangerines. He asks Henry if he wants to come with him after school. Then he leaves a message with his mom, telling her that he’s going to the Cruzes. After school Wayne gives Henry and Paul a ride over. When they arrive they see that there’s ice all over the Golden Dawn trees. Paul doesn’t understand, but Wayne tells him that they spray the trees with water to encase them with ice, because the ice keeps them at 3. If they go any lower, they die. The ice acts like a protection. But they don’t have the ability to spray all the trees because they need pumps that take diesel fuel, which is too expensive. It’s also risky because the ice has to stay slushy: if it freezes hard, the trees can crack. Luis comes up and asks what they’re doing there. Paul says they want to help. Luis is cautious. He asks why. Paul says that they’re War Eagles, which Luis accepts. Paul calls his mom, who sounds strangely upset about something. He can’t figure it out. Paul tells her that he’s at a slumber party; he doesn’t explain what he’s actually doing. He and Henry go with Tino to the Quonset hut that’s filled with baby trees covered in protective dirt. Tino explains what’s going on: his dad and uncle are starting a huge bonfire in the Cleopatra grove. Luis will run the pumps to keep the new grove iced. Paul and Henry can help doing everything. They set out and begin dragging brush and tires to the fire. Then they haul dirt. Then they help to hack ice off the braches. When they’re in the middle of one thing, they get called over to another place. It’s freezing cold. They work in the dark. One grove is already dead and they start to use these trees as fuel. There are smudge pots in the fields, and Tino says these need diesel too. Tino has a big thermometer, and he’s paying attention to the temperature to keep Luis posted. As the night goes on and Paul works intensely, running from one emergency to the next, he thinks of people in Lake Windsor drinking cocoa and sitting by fake logs. Then the temperature starts to drop. It goes down to 2. Luis tells everyone that if it stays this cold for ten more minutes he’s calling it off. Paul can’t believe it. As Paul stands looking that the frozen trees in the firelight, he realizes how tired he is. Luis sends the kids in to get warm. Theresa brings Paul coffee. He’s never had coffee before. His fingers are so cold he can’t hold the cup. Everyone is ready to go back out, but Luis tells Paul that he needs to rest. Paul doesn’t want to, but he agrees. Luis comes in at one point and Paul says that he saw what happened to him with his brother. He tells Luis about the blackjack. Luis didn’t realize that he was hit with something. Paul goes to sleep. When he wakes up everyone is coming back in. Tino thanks Paul. Paul says he’s sorry about his brother. They have a team hug. Then Luis takes Paul aside and tells him that Antoine Thomas and his friend are planning something. They want Luis to come to the school on Monday to get back at Erik and Arthur. Paul feels strangely satisfied by this idea. His mom comes and takes him home. Nov. 2. 4 Paul sleeps for eighteen hours. No one wakes him for Thanksgiving, or to go to Erik’s final game. It’s strange. In the morning Paul’s dad comes downstairs and tells Paul about the game. He’s very upset about it. The Lake Windsor Seagulls won, but Erik didn’t get any good plays. Antoine and his friend, Brian, kept playing to each other. Then Brian threw terrible passes to Erik. Fisher says that it almost seemed like they did it deliberately to make Erik look like a fool. Paul looks through the newspaper and sees a photo of the all- county soccer team. He wishes he was in the picture, but he’s happy to see Shandra there. Paul’s dad asks about the picture and he asks Paul if he made the all- county team. Paul bursts out angrily. He asks his dad what he even knows about his soccer season; he asks if he knows what position he played. Of course, Mr. Fisher knows nothing. But Paul asks how many field goals Erik kicked. His dad is ashamed. But he still justifies it: he says that this was an important season for Erik’s future career. Paul’s mom the mutters that Erik might not have a future football career. Fisher is horrified. Paul doesn’t understand her new attitude. Just then, the phone rings. It’s one of their neighbors telling them to look outside. All the mailboxes have been smashed on their street. And someone spray painted on the back wall of the housing development with graffiti saying that the Seagulls suck. When Paul goes and looks at the wall, he has an eerie flashback, but then something happens and he passes out. His parents bring him back inside. They’re worried about him. His dad is very upset, demanding to know what happened, but Paul feels fine. Nov. 2. 7 Today is the day that Luis and Antoine plan to get back at Erik. Paul’s mom has made him stay home from school and as he waits, he thinks about what’s going to happen to Erik. But when Erik comes home, he looks fine. Nothing happened, it seems. That night, Paul’s mom hosts another HOA meeting. Paul sits and listens and looks at Erik’s scholarship offers on the computer. There’s nothing. The people in the meeting talk about the missing koi fish. They’re all convinced that someone is stealing them. Paul walks into the meeting and interrupts. He says that their theory makes no sense. Who would steal the fish and how would they do it? He explains that it’s the osprey that are doing it. He says that he’s seen them. Everyone is surprised by Paul’s outburst. Paul’s mom asks if there’s anything else he needs to say. Does he know about the home robberies? Paul says that he doesn’t know anything. He leaves the meeting. Nov. 2. 8 Paul goes to school and finds out that Luis is dead. He collapsed in the grove and his father found him. They say that he died of an aneurism. Paul is horrified. He calls his mom to pick him up from school. He tells her that he’s sick. Nov. 2. 9 Theresa calls Paul and tells him not to come to Luis’s funeral. She doesn’t want her brother or other people to do anything bad to Paul. Paul realizes that Luis told the family about what happened with Erik. This is so different than his family members, who tell each other nothing. Paul goes and sits by the koi pond. A small boy rides up on his bike. Paul asks him if his parents told him about the alligator in the pond that eats kids. The boy shakes his head. Guide to the Novel and Summary of Tangerine by Edward Bloor. New Friends. As Paul becomes more comfortable at his new school, chapter notes for Tangerine by Edward Bloor reveal more about the problems in Lake Windsor Downs, a growing divide between Paul and Joey, and the beauty and importance of the region's citrus groves. Readers should pay close attention to these topics and the threads that tie them together. Tuesday, September 2. Tuesday, October 3. Tangerine Middle School wins its second game. When Victor has to leave the game with an injury, Paul takes his place and scores a goal. Paul gets a phone call from Joey's girlfriend and finds out that Kerri Gardner might be interested in him. After soccer practice, Victor starts making fun of Joey and Joey doesn't take it well. Paul's mom is impressed by the female members on the Tangerine soccer team and convinces the Tangerine Times to do a story on them. Several houses in Lake Windsor Downs are tented to spray for bugs. When they have to work on a group project in class, Paul learns that Joey quit the soccer team and that he's not happy at Tangerine. Joey and Paul form a group with Tino, Theresa and Henry D. Donnelly's house to meet some Florida college football supporters. Paul learns that his soccer coach, Betty Bright, was a champion track and field athlete. Paul remembers another moment after he lost his eyesight. Tangerine Middle School's last home game is rained out, leaving them undefeated as they enter their final game against Lake Windsor Downs Middle School, the only other undefeated team in the county. When Shandra Thomas gets sick, Paul plays goalie and stops a penalty kick that secures the championship for the Tangerine team.
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