STEPS TO CREATE A CHARACTER ANALYSIS ESSAY

Thesis Statement for Literary Analysis of Tangerine Character

  1. Look at the choices and consequence charts on pages:

182, 196, 207 and 220

  1. Pick THREE of the choices that are related that you can use in your essay. Write these down on paper, or type them on WORD.
    3. Begin writing your paper by creating an introduction and thesis with the below information. (use the embedded assessment and p.226 to help you organize your thoughts)

Introduction for Tangerine literary analysis

  • Anecdote

Imagine being a part of family where you feel like you don’t matter at all and your father barely pays attention to you. You look for him at your soccer games, but he’s not there. You ask him about your childhood, but he leaves out information to protect you. This is the family dynamic for Paul Fischer in the novel Tangerine.

  • Question

Are some people born evil? In Tangerine, Paul Fisher probably asks that question when thinking about his own brother, Erik.

  • Quote

“I am all right. I’m more than all right. Finally.” Paul Fisher writes these words in his journal near the end of the novel Tangerine. His journey up to this point was filled with many choices: some made by him, and some made by his brother, Erik.

  • Statement of Intrigue

Some things in life are just out of your control. You can control your own words, actions, and beliefs. You can control your own choices, reactions, and attitudes. What you can’t control are other people’s choices. In the novel Tangerine, Paul Fisher learns this lesson when his life is turned upside down by the choices of his parents—choices that he could not control.

Thesis Statement for Literary Analysis of Tangerine Character

In the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor,

______makes several

(Character name)

______choices that

(Adjective)

______.

(Impact on Paul)

Examples

  1. In the novel Holes by Louis Sachar, Zero makes several surprising choices that help Stanley uncover the truth about himself and the curse on his family.
  2. In the novel Holes by Louis Sachar, Zero makes several dangerous choices that put his and Stanley’s life in danger; however, those choices ultimately help create a strong bond between the two characters.