As Paul bridges the divide between the communities, we come to see the problem of discrimination and how it negatively impacts people’s lives.
The effects of this discrimination include a deep rift between the two communities and ultimately the violence that breaks out. While football scouts come out to the Lake Windsor team, nobody goes to Tangerine team. The Lake Windsor Housing Association assumes that the people vandalizing their development are Tangerine kids. We see Erik make fun of Tino and Theresa for being field workers. In a number of incidences the people of Lake Windsor reveal their prejudices against the poorer families of Tangerine. Once he stands up to Erik, he becomes free of Erik’s power over him. Overcoming fear is important to Paul’s success.
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His fear is debilitating and it means that he doesn’t know how to stand up for his friends when Erik attacks them. Throughout the novel, Paul is terrified of Erik. He sees Lake Windsor-and particularly Erik-as the more aggressive side. Paul ultimately sides with the Tangerine kids in this battle. This tension ultimately plays out when Erik and Arthur attack Tino and Luis Tino and Victor then take revenge. One difference between the two communities is their economic status while this may seem superficial and unimportant, it has the effect of causing a violent rift between the different groups. The people of Lake Windsor often discriminate against the people of Tangerine in response to this, the people of Tangerine are defensive against the Lake Windsor community. While Tangerine is a poor community of field workers, Lake Windsor is upper middle class. One of the major themes in Tangerine comes from the tension between the two communities-that of Tangerine and that of Lake Windsor.
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