Persuasive Essay On Tangerine

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be temporarily blind and have to wear a certain type of glasses for the rest of your life? In that case you have come to the right place because this book we read called tangerine has many ups and downs but is a phenomenal book. This book takes you on a journey throughout the life of a kid name paul’s life, but as it may seem, it is hard for him in this world for many reasons, but there’s one that stands out above the rest. Paul is temporarily blind, now I know you guys may say “wow,I feel so bad, but how?”. Well, I would not insist on spoiling this part, but the reason why is because he looked at a solar eclipse and it affected his sight for the rest of his life. He has gone through school being bullied,
“Mama said Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get”(tom hanks, actor in the movie Forrest Gump).This sort of tells us how life is unique and the quote tells us how anything can happen like the world being taken over for example. It is something we have to go through while living like how Paul has to go through having those glasses because of his decision to look at the solar eclipse without the proper protection. Paul goes through a lot of things in this book like he witnesses a sinkhole in his school and he decides to be brave and save other instead of thinking for himself. This brings me back to the quote “mama said life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get”(Tom hanks, actor Forrest Gump). It brings me back to that quote because he did something amazing instead of saving himself. Just imagine you pick a chocolate box with a bunch of different types of chocolate in it and you don't know what they are so you just pick one and it could be a kind you don't like which is a bad decision and it could be one you do like which is a good