The Blind Side By Michael Lewis

Circumstance and choice very much affect the outcome of a difficult situation. Choices are often made by deciding between seeing the world through a glass half full, or half empty. In the short story Man who had no eyes by Mackinlay Kantor, Mr. Parsons is a wealthy man who came from tragedy. Despite his hardships he makes the choice to stay positive and keep trying to make it. Originally his quality of life wasn’t too great; he worked in a factory as nothing more than a skilled laborer. After a chemical explosion leaves him blind, he builds a new life for himself without help or motivation. ”…He had done it alone, unaided, struggling beneath handicaps…and he was still young”. (Mackinlay 328) This illustrates that he himself alone made the personal

The Blind Side is an award winning movie, based on a true story. It tells the story of an African American Boy, Michael Oher, who gets adopted by the Touhy family. The movie references the children’s book Ferdinand the Bull. After the Tuohy family reads this book Ms Tuohy says that Michaels her Ferdinand. The movie shows the similarities and differences between Ferdinand and Michael.

In How to Read Literature like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster uses physical imperfections to tell a story about the character’s past. The writers use deformities to set the characters apart and give them a uniqueness. They try to make a thematic point by using deformities. Physical imperfections can symbolize the character’s morals. Some characters do not use their imperfections as a crutch.

The Blind Side is an entirely different type of movie, while still being a “heart-warming football movie.” This movie focuses on Michael Oher and how he overcame adversity in terms of not only lifestyle, but also educationally and athletically. Michael Oher’s story was almost the opposite of Rudy’s. Oher did not have a place to live, while in high school. His size was to his advantage and he easily learned how to use it as that in terms of football. His friend’s father pleaded with a Catholic school coach to accept both Michael and Steven into their school on

The blind side, written by John Lee Handcock, is based on the story and events of the Tuohy family as they take in a young homeless boy by the name of Michael Oher. A fatherless Micheal Oher is left in the care of his drug addicted mother in the gang filled projects of Memphis. But soon things are about to change for him. Through a series of events he is accepted into Wingate Christian School, which is an exclusive private school, even though his education level did not meet their standards. During the attendance at Wingate he meets the Tuohy family who take him in and help him succeed in high school, college, and reach his professional football career as he became the first-round pick of the Baltimore Ravens in the 2009 NFL draft. The Blind Side uses detailed scenes amplified by dialogue and symbolism to portray the theme of judging a person by their appearance and past verses judging them by their character and abilities.

The Blind Slide: Evolution of a Game is a novel that was written by Michael Lewis in 2006. It is the life story of professional football player Michael Oher. This young man came from nothing to actually making it to the professional level of athletics. This is mostly in part to Sean and Leigh Ann Touhy of Memphis, Tennessee. This book shows the struggles of his childhood and how he became to be the person that he is now with Sean and Leigh Ann’s help. This novel was made into a film, The Blind Side in 2009. Although the novel and film have a lot in common there are also some differences. Many of these differences have their own set of reasons on why. Due to the nature of this story it is easy to see the Hegemony Theory and Critical Race

The Blind Side, a 293 page novel by Michael Lewis, is a sport novel about a young black teenager named Michael Oher. It is published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2006. Other books by this author include, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Liar's Poker, Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood and Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life. Some awards Lewis won are Los Angeles Times Book Award, The Big Short Alex Award, The Blind Side New York Times Notable Selection and The Blind Side 800-CEO-READS Business Book Award. Michael Oher, the main character in this story, grew up with a rough life.

Michael Oher showed a lot of courage and perseverance.When he was little his father was murdered, when he was in school. He didn’t have as good as a life when he was a kid. Oher hard a life until he was seventeen. The Tuohy family adopted him. Oher went to different foster homes till he was 17. He didn't have a mother because he was taken from her because she did drugs. Michael Oher showed a lot of courage. Not being able to have both his parents,Moving from house to house, Moving 11 different schools, and Repeating grades. Oher decided to start taking a different road to success. At the age 11 he turned away from drugs and gangs.”There has got to be something better somewhere” said Michael. “ I would have found my way out of the ghetto one way or another” he said.

Michael Oher played by actor Quinton Aaron was a big, tall, black boy, who never did have anything right in his life. He came from a broken home; when he was young, him and his brother were taken away from their mom, as she was drug addict. Things never seem to be right in Michael’s life, he lived in the projects in Memphis; an area filled with gangs a path to destruction for Oher. After he was taken away from his mom, he was sent in and out from many different foster homes but never found

The Blind Side Analysis The movie, The Blind Side, directed by John Lee Hancock, is known as a heartwarming film about a privileged white family taking in a black boy from off the streets, named Michael Oher. While The Blind Side is seen as an inspirational movie about Michael Oher rising against social and economic challenges to become a football player, the director centers the story around Leigh Anne, the white woman who took him in. Rather than displaying Michael Oher’s perspective of the events that occurred leading up to his football scholarship, the director purposely chose to use a white female’s perspective. This style of using Leigh Anne’s perspective makes it so the movie demonstrates more of the struggles of the white person

The Blind Side is based on the incredible true story of Michael Oher (a current NFL player). It’s a story of hard knocks and always persevering. To fight for another day and to hope something better is around the bend. As Oher did exactly that as he was determined and found a better future. Through racial bias and other trying times in his life.

He is black. He was a Homeless teen. He is living in Tennessee. He was moved from one foster home to another. Because of his big size, he gets into a Christian and started playing football. While he was walking on a cold night, Leigh Anne Tuohy and her family drove past him. The kids in the car are classmates of Michael’s, so Leigh Anne offers Michael to stay the night at her house. Leigh Anne takes pity on him and gives him a room to stay. Michael is a quiet, shy teen. He likes interacting with the kids and is protective at times. Seeing this as a strength, Leigh Anne tells Michael to play football and teaches him that this is what he is good at. Michael gets better at football, and to play at a more advanced level, he needs higher grades. He hired a tutor and moves his expectations further along. Leigh Anne and her family stood by Michael as he was wooed by top universities. He chooses the Touhy’s alma matter. His decision is investigated since officers think the Tuohy’s and the school wants to make money off his recruitment. As he is relentlessly interrogated, Michael comes out of his shell to defend his new family. He later becomes a successful offensive player for Baltimore Ravens, still strongly supported by Touhy’s

The Blind Side, directed by John Lee Hancock, is a semi-biographical motion picture sports film that is based off the book, “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game”, written by Michael Lewis. In both the motion picture and the novel, the true story of Michael Oher, a previously homeless African-American boy with a traumatic past turned professional football player is revealed. After having been sent foster home to foster home from a young age, Michael Oher was eventually taken in by the Tuohy’s, a wealthy upper-class white family who helped him overcome and reach his full potential to eventually become a well-educated, professional football player. The Blind Side was credited for amazing performances from Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock, as Leigh Anne Tuohy, and Quinton Aaron as Michael Oher. Through the deliverance of John Lee Hancock’s The Blind Side, numerous questions about the race and class

The Blind Side is about Michael Oher’s life and how he came from being homeless to living with the Tuohy family. It shows how Michael overcame adversities from not being able to read and coming from a drug infested neighborhood to learning how to be with a family who cared and would do anything to help him succeed. Watching the movie, one could see how Oher was able to rise above poverty and adversity and become left tackle for the Baltimore Ravens.

The Blind Side was based on the life of Michael Oher a teenage African American boy whose mother was battling drug and alcohol addictions, in the projects of Memphis Tennessee. Mike as he is know in the movie was in foster care several times and always ran away to his Mother, thinking that no one could ever love him the way his Mother could, even with her ongoing addiction. Mike often slept at his fathers friends home, but even he could not give Mike the support that he desired. He would wash his clothes in the sink at the local laundry mat, and often had to steal food from the local gas station just to survive. When his only caregiver whose couch Michael slept on every night took his