The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

The Blindside is a film that deals with the life of Michael Oher as he grew up in a rough neighborhood and got adopted by a more affluent family. Michael goes throw many emotional turmoil and has a hard time fitting in at school and at home as his life with his new family is nothing he has ever encountered. The film shows the progression of Michael Oher throughout his senior year as he becomes one of the more attractive football prospects in the country and opens doors for him to have a future.…

What do you think of when you hear the word hero? Courage, perseverance, bravery? Well, in the book Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt published in October of 2015, I learned that heroes come in all shapes and sizes. The book is told from the point of 12 year old Jack who lives a quiet sheltered life on his parents' farm in Maine until his family takes in a foster kid named Joseph. Joseph, a normal looking black haired 14 year old with a past of hurt and abuse, became a father at 13 and was…

“The Blind Side” is a movie about not only football and new beginnings, but culturally ingrained racism and poverty, as well. The Touhy’s, a well-off white family living in Memphis, Tennessee, take in Michael Oher, an underprivileged black boy whom they save from wandering the streets one particularly rainy night. Michael is soft-spoken and introverted, but is gifted at playing football. The movie follows his life with the Tuohy’s as he becomes a part of the family. They give him new clothes, a…

Sidney Poitier is a famous African American actor and director who has earned many awards for his love of acting. Sidney had a hard childhood and did not have very good behavior in his early life. He saw plenty of racism and prejudice in his childhood and helped put a stop to it in his adult life. He never had a great education but he still had many significant accomplishments! Sidney was born prematurely on February 20, 1927 to a poor family in Miami, Florida while the Bahamian…

In the inspirational film The Blind Side, the rags to riches archetype is very apparent and has a great affect on the characters and plot of this movie. This movie is about a 17 year-old boy named Michael Oher. Michael has been in foster care in Memphis, Tennessee, since he was a young boy. He was separated from his family due to his mother’s drug addiction. At the beginning of the movie Michael’s friend's father asks the coach of Wingate Christian School to help enroll his son and Michael. The…

The Blind Side; Effects of Environment and Family Background on Education and Success Your environment and your family background have a greater impact or your education and success than you may realize. For instance, in The Blind Side Michael's childhood is horrible; Michael is raised by a mother who is a drug addict and lives in an environment where there is violence and gangs. As Michael grows up he is taken away from his mother and becomes homeless; he lives on the streets and has to fend…

Your surroundings don't define who you are. In The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace written by Jeff Hobbs, Robert Peace grows up in Newark; a community that increasingly declines in safety and rises in poverty and drug dealing. However despite his surroundings Robert shows remarkable signs of intelligence in which his mother sacrifices ⅓ of her salary to be able to feed his thirst for education by sending Rob to private school. However, Peace’s father becomes wrongfully imprisoned for the…

STORYLINE AND CONTEXT: In the movie of “the pursuit of happiness” we see the story of a young boy and his father going through the worst parts of life where people couldn’t imagine being in the same situation. In the movie, we are shown how the two struggle in their lives to survive and thrive in the society they are in as the two of them are left homeless for nearly a year, living off of small amounts of money made through selling the portable bone scanner that he has invested all of his money…

The Blind Side shows the readers multiple times throughout the story that, life has its ups and down, but you always have to stay positive. The Blind Side is a football story about Michael Oher. His life was challenging, but extremely successful. Throughout his life, he was homeless and wandered the streets at night until the Tuohys adopted him into their luxurious home. Now, Michael is a part of their family of four. He's an all star football player for his school, and eventually gets recruited…

In the two books I read this summer there are two unique protagonists. The first is Wade Watts from Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. The second is Michael from I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond By Michael Oher. These protagonists face different challenges and circumstances. Nevertheless, we can identify some commonalities between them. The positive qualities of these two protagonists are their perseverance and loyalty. The negative qualities include their…