“The Blind Side” is a movie based on the true events in Michael Oher’s life as he went from being homeless with no father and a mother addicted to drugs‚ to a star football player in the NFL. Before Oher became number 74 on the Baltimore Ravens‚ he had little to no schooling. However‚ Oher also gained support after the Tuohy family provided him with a home and an opportunity. Michael Oher and his character‚ as portrayed in “The Blind Side”‚ both struggled with education for many years before attaining
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Discuss in relation to the behaviour of Michael Oher in the film.’ Some settings we encounter in our lives are both familiar and dangerous to us. John Lee Hancock shows this particularly well through the character of Michael Oher in ‘The Blind Side’. Settings such as the Touhy house‚ the Christian school and the suburb of Hurt Village‚ where Michael’s mother lives‚ serve as examples of these contradictory places. Briarcrest Christian School is a place where Michael originally feels threatened‚ but
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MATTHEW HOOGVELD PERIOD 1-2. 1. After a late night Thanksgiving school play‚ Leigh Anne notices Michael walking on the road‚ shivering in the cold; when she learns he intends to spend the night huddled outside the school gym‚ she offers him a place to sleep at her house. The next morning‚ when she sees Michael leaving‚ she asks him to spend the holiday with her family. Slowly‚ Michael becomes a member of the Tuohy family‚ even as Leigh Anne’s rich friends wonder what she is doing. One even
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foster houses‚ Michael Oher choose to be homeless rather than meet new family strange for him. Being taken by the Family Services because of his drug-addicted mother makes him being a shy person. He become a quiet person with low self esteem‚ he had no courage to do anything. Except for his atletic talent. Everybody has the unpleasant impression about him because he shows the scary face with his huge size of body. Perception of others always selective and sometimes distorted. Michael perceive himself
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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: Michael Oher: The African American who is taken in by the Tuohy family. Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy: The couple that help Michael fulfil his potential
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life of the main character‚ Michael Oher‚ and his journey from a sense of dislocation and alienation from those around him‚ to feeling acceptance and a sense of self identity towards himself. Aspects of belonging explored in this film include the relationships that are developed throughout the film which create for Michael a sense of identity‚ acceptance‚ understanding‚ and the potential for Michael to take a further journey in his life. The connections that Michael develops with Leigh Anne Tuohy
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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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whole family possessed is what made Michael Oher finally feel as if he was at home. The Tuohy family was overall accepting towards Michael Oher‚ they brought forth unconditional love and so did he‚ and lastly they made him feel secure. These characteristics are characteristics that I believe all families should possess in order for a member of the family to succeed in society. It was evident that the Tuohy family was overall exceptionally accepting towards Oher. Besides the fact that he physically
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character who overcomes being homeless. According to Michael Oher‚ (2016)‚ Michael Oher was born on May 28‚ 1986‚ in Memphis‚ Tennessee. He came from a broken home and his estranged father was murdered while Oher was in high school. Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy became Oher’s legal guardians and he developed into a college football star and a top NFL draft pick. Michael Sr. was frequently in prison‚ and Denise was addicted to crack cocaine. As a result‚ Michael Jr. was in-and-out of foster homes and frequently
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SUMMARY Seventeen year old Michael Oher‚ an extremely large‚ physically imposing black youth‚ grew up in Memphis. He is no longer living with his drug addicted mother‚ but is in a foster care when he isn’t running away to sleep wherever else he can find. Out of circumstances including Coach Burt Cotton’s belief that he would be an asset to the school’s football program based solely on his size and seeing him move‚ Michael is accepted into Wingate Christian School - an exclusive private school -
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