When I was in middle school, my family and I would always cozy up in the living room to watch a good movie on Sunday nights. One night, my mom chose the movie The Blind Side directed by John Lee Hancock. It instantly became my favorite movie. It portrays a young, black man, Michael Oher, who is adopted by a wealthy, white family, The Touhys, trying to succeed in academics and his football career. It shows how he basically comes from nothing and grows up to become a successful football star. I had always wanted to read the book the movie was based on, The Blind Side written by Michael Lewis, ever since I first saw the movie, but I hadn’t ever gotten the chance to. This assignment finally gave me the opportunity to read it. Both the book and
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In the book, Sean is the main person in Michael’s life. He is the first person to help Michael, which eventually leads to Micheal trusting him. The first thing Sean does to help him is to make sure that he has enough money for lunch since the lunches at his new private school (Briarcrest) aren’t free: “Sean went to the Briarcrest accounting department and arranged for Michael Oher to have a standing charge card at the lunch check out counter” (66). Sean has been in his place before because he too has been the poor kid at a private school, which is what makes him want to start helping Michael. Sean also tells Michael to call him first if anything bad ever happens to him. Michael gets into a fight with one of his teammates and ends up hurting a little boy in the process. After the fight happens, Michael flees. No one is able to find him. When he finally calls Sean, he says, “Pops, you’re my first call. Just like I promised” (316). This shows how prominent Sean has become in his life because Michael is coming to him for help when he’s in trouble. It shows that Michael trusts him. Leigh Anne isn’t a huge character in the book. She is someone Michael can talk to and someone he can trust. He also comes to her for help from time to time. She helps him find clothes to wear when they go on a shopping trip together as well. In the movie, these roles are reversed. Leigh Anne is the more prominent person in Michael’s life. She is constantly helping him and giving him things. She gives him a place to stay on her couch and eventually a permanent room in her house, and she even gives him a truck. Before Leigh Anne and Michael go shopping in the movie, she takes him to Hurt Village (he lived there before going to Briarcrest) to try to find his birth mother so they can get some of his clothes. Once they find out she isn’t living there anymore, Leigh Anne proceeds to
In the book, Sean is the main person in Michael’s life. He is the first person to help Michael, which eventually leads to Micheal trusting him. The first thing Sean does to help him is to make sure that he has enough money for lunch since the lunches at his new private school (Briarcrest) aren’t free: “Sean went to the Briarcrest accounting department and arranged for Michael Oher to have a standing charge card at the lunch check out counter” (66). Sean has been in his place before because he too has been the poor kid at a private school, which is what makes him want to start helping Michael. Sean also tells Michael to call him first if anything bad ever happens to him. Michael gets into a fight with one of his teammates and ends up hurting a little boy in the process. After the fight happens, Michael flees. No one is able to find him. When he finally calls Sean, he says, “Pops, you’re my first call. Just like I promised” (316). This shows how prominent Sean has become in his life because Michael is coming to him for help when he’s in trouble. It shows that Michael trusts him. Leigh Anne isn’t a huge character in the book. She is someone Michael can talk to and someone he can trust. He also comes to her for help from time to time. She helps him find clothes to wear when they go on a shopping trip together as well. In the movie, these roles are reversed. Leigh Anne is the more prominent person in Michael’s life. She is constantly helping him and giving him things. She gives him a place to stay on her couch and eventually a permanent room in her house, and she even gives him a truck. Before Leigh Anne and Michael go shopping in the movie, she takes him to Hurt Village (he lived there before going to Briarcrest) to try to find his birth mother so they can get some of his clothes. Once they find out she isn’t living there anymore, Leigh Anne proceeds to