Stages of Development: a Review of the Movie, the Blind Side
This movie-The Blind Side talks about how Michael Oher achieved his self-esteem during his adolescent time. Between the plots of the movie, we also included some development theories such as Erik Erikson’s psychosocial cognitive theory; Maslow’s hierarchy needs theory and also the operant conditioning theory that associated with Michael’s development.
As an introduction, Michael Oher was a famous Black American football player that came from a poor family that consist of thirteen children, an absentee father and an alcoholic plus drug addict mother in the village of Memphis, Tennessee (Bell, 2009). In Michael’s childhood, he did not enjoy any love or caring from his parent as both of them do not want to be in charge of him and the other siblings. Thus, Michael was taken care by many foster homes; but, he always ran away from those foster homes and back to his own house to take care of his mother. Because of that, he was called as the runner by others in his village.
The movie starts on with when Michael knew his father was shot and killed how he was promoted into Briarcrest Christian high school by his Black friend’s father when he was already seventeen years old Before this, Michael have been studied in eleven schools including his primary and secondary as all of the schools rejected him because of his poor attitude towards studies. At first, the teachers of Briarcrest Christian high school do not want to accept him; but, the school’s football coach convinced them to accept him with the reason of he was so talented in sports after watching the big size Michael playing basketball with his Black friend in their school’s basketball court. Then, Michael has become the only Black student in that school.
In the first day of school, Michael had scored zero for the quiz that given by his class teacher because he did not study those knowledge before. In school, Michael had no White friends except for Sean Junior Tuohy because of his body colour;
As an introduction, Michael Oher was a famous Black American football player that came from a poor family that consist of thirteen children, an absentee father and an alcoholic plus drug addict mother in the village of Memphis, Tennessee (Bell, 2009). In Michael’s childhood, he did not enjoy any love or caring from his parent as both of them do not want to be in charge of him and the other siblings. Thus, Michael was taken care by many foster homes; but, he always ran away from those foster homes and back to his own house to take care of his mother. Because of that, he was called as the runner by others in his village.
The movie starts on with when Michael knew his father was shot and killed how he was promoted into Briarcrest Christian high school by his Black friend’s father when he was already seventeen years old Before this, Michael have been studied in eleven schools including his primary and secondary as all of the schools rejected him because of his poor attitude towards studies. At first, the teachers of Briarcrest Christian high school do not want to accept him; but, the school’s football coach convinced them to accept him with the reason of he was so talented in sports after watching the big size Michael playing basketball with his Black friend in their school’s basketball court. Then, Michael has become the only Black student in that school.
In the first day of school, Michael had scored zero for the quiz that given by his class teacher because he did not study those knowledge before. In school, Michael had no White friends except for Sean Junior Tuohy because of his body colour;
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