Blake LoCicero
Professor McGinn
Writing 102
5 October 2017
“The Blind Side”: A Story of Triumph “The Blind Side”, directed by John Lee Hancock, shows the struggle of a black man to become apart of the white society. The main character in the film, Michael Oher, provides a first person point of view to audiences of how he received mistreatment and disdain from the white community. Along with showing us the struggles of Michael, Hancock also wants to abolish the notion towards white Americans by using the Tuhoy family as his prime example. He shows how the Tuhoy’s accepted Michael and all of his past experiences for who he is as a person and what he aspires to be. The Tuhoy family becomes part of who Michael is and he looks to them for strength, guidance and just about anything a child would look to a family for. From our perspective, it can be perceived that Hancock’s main goal of the movie was to emphasize the different issues of the society like racism, cultural interaction, and cultural differences. The goal of the film is to portray how Michael gets accepted as a social norm through the Tuhoy family. Michael comes from a troubled background where he has lived with multiple foster families, but has left all …show more content…
The attempt to help Michael can go one of two ways, he will fit in perfectly or he will not. This is what keeps the audience interested. Since Leigh Ann and Sean Tuhoy are both influential individuals given their profession, people close to them think adopting Michael tarnishes their good reputation. This is one of the major struggles of the Tuhoy family and Michael as well. Despite all the negativity surrounding them, the Tuhoy’s come together and fight against the criticism and prove to everyone around them that Michael is more civilized and gracious than anyone who criticizes
Professor McGinn
Writing 102
5 October 2017
“The Blind Side”: A Story of Triumph “The Blind Side”, directed by John Lee Hancock, shows the struggle of a black man to become apart of the white society. The main character in the film, Michael Oher, provides a first person point of view to audiences of how he received mistreatment and disdain from the white community. Along with showing us the struggles of Michael, Hancock also wants to abolish the notion towards white Americans by using the Tuhoy family as his prime example. He shows how the Tuhoy’s accepted Michael and all of his past experiences for who he is as a person and what he aspires to be. The Tuhoy family becomes part of who Michael is and he looks to them for strength, guidance and just about anything a child would look to a family for. From our perspective, it can be perceived that Hancock’s main goal of the movie was to emphasize the different issues of the society like racism, cultural interaction, and cultural differences. The goal of the film is to portray how Michael gets accepted as a social norm through the Tuhoy family. Michael comes from a troubled background where he has lived with multiple foster families, but has left all …show more content…
The attempt to help Michael can go one of two ways, he will fit in perfectly or he will not. This is what keeps the audience interested. Since Leigh Ann and Sean Tuhoy are both influential individuals given their profession, people close to them think adopting Michael tarnishes their good reputation. This is one of the major struggles of the Tuhoy family and Michael as well. Despite all the negativity surrounding them, the Tuhoy’s come together and fight against the criticism and prove to everyone around them that Michael is more civilized and gracious than anyone who criticizes