Has weather ever affected you or your community in any way? Have you ever felt a way about weather that makes you uncomfortable. Paul, the residents of Lake Windsor Downs and Tangerine have tried to control weather and tried to stop it from affecting their community and they still have problems. The homeowners association have tried to stop the effects of weather with no success. In the novel the motif of weather is used to show that man cannot control nature no matter how hard they try.
In Edward Bloor's novel, Tangerine citizens try to stop the effects of weather on their community. The freeze has brought lots of bad things to the groves in Tangerine. They have to ice the trees by covering them with water. They said that “32 degrees won’t