Akaash Nayak MBC-08 UPenn 7-8-12 Character Analysis for The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game: MICHAEL OHER African-American Michael Oher’s story started when he ran away from home‚ escaping his drug-crazy mother who was fighting her own battle of maintaining a husband-less family and retaining money for drugs‚ food‚ and other “necessities.” Although he kept poor grades up until the year he graduated from high school‚ Oher showed an aptitude in sports from an early age. This would play a major
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Blind Side Summary: The blind side directed by John Lee Hancock is based on a true story about how a couple Leigh Anne and Sean take on a homeless African American boy names Michael. Michael is not very educated and so at the beginning he fails all his subjects. Leigh Anne starts to help Michael with his grades and also with his football. She sees the potential in him. Living in this totally different environment‚ Michael faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome. Main Characters:
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he reminded himself of the one thing that helped him through it all‚ his wife. He made the decision of knowing he was locked in a place that there was no where out he would change his views and his mindset. He had to change himself. The movie The Blind Side shows
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mother)‚ the sense of self develops appropriately and affects their social life. If there’s too much mirroring‚ the child won’t be able to deal with frustrations. If there’s too little‚ the development of the self is stunted. In the movie “The Blind Side” Before meeting Tuohys‚ Michael was reserved and had very few friends. It is apparent that he did not receive sufficient mirroring from his parents while growing up which resulted in his ‘psychosocial dysfunction’. At school he was ridiculed because
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With the promotional poster depicting a picture of a woman holding the hand of an oversized football player leading him onto the field‚ the movie “The Blind Side” made skeptics of moviegoers. Challenged by most energy-packed movies that hit the screens in 2009‚ the movie at hind sight did not do much visual stimulation. However‚ being a movie that faithfully represents the real life experience of famed football star Michael Oher‚ it did not fail to raise a lot of eyebrows from both movie fans and
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EMC1 #142426 The Blind Side During our Physics class‚ it was my second time to watch this movie. The first time I watched it‚ I didn’t really focus on the movie but when we were required to watch it during our physics class‚ I fully focused on the movie and I’m glad I did. The Blind Side shows the value of loving your neighbours and helping those in need. I really enjoyed the movie because of the values
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Six Discipline Lessons Used by Leigh Anne Tuohy from “The Blind Side” Leigh Anne Tuohy from the movie “The Blind Side” embodies what it means to be a passionate‚ strong‚ and loving mother. She’s no bullshit‚ and it’s obvious on screen. When she speaks‚ she means it. She doesn’t want to raise spoiled‚ bratty kids; she knows better than that. When she gets tough‚ it’s not out of anger or hate. It’s coming from a deep place of love. She not only demonstrates her passionate-about-life demeanor to
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Blind Side In the film‚ Michael Oher was born and raised in the projects of Memphis‚ Tennessee. He grew up poor‚ not knowing his father‚ and was the son of a crack-addicted mother. Oher did not have a consistent place to live and sometimes stayed with his neighbors. He went along with his neighborhood friend and his father who wanted to enroll his son into a school with a good reputation‚ Wingate Christian School. While attending the school‚ he befriends S.J. Tuohy and later welcomed into the
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The Blind Side is a tear jerking‚ heat warming story about acceptance‚ however‚ it lacks the suspense that audiences crave. Just when the movie starts to get good and you start to feel the suspense the scene changes to another hart warming part. Based off of the book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis the movie represents the life of Michael Oher. Tears are bound to flow during this extremely emotion story. The Blind Side implies that the movie will be all about sports‚ however
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web page that you will be compiling for year 11 students based upon inspirational journeys. An inspirational journey is a journey that is moving‚ stimulating and touching to the audience and this is exactly why these two texts‚ the movie‚ ‘The blind Side”‚ written by John Lee Hancock and Peter Skrzynecki’s poem‚ “Immigrants at central station”‚ should be included in your webpage as they provide to the audience these exact emotions. Obstacles and struggles faced by characters in both texts must be
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