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The Blind Side
When you think of hero’s who are the first people you think of are? Superman? Batman? Spiderman? Those would all be the common responses. Have you ever wondered “what is a hero?” A hero is a person who is admired for great or brave acts or fine qualities. “There are five qualities that truly heroic leaders have in common. Courage, selflessness, humility, patience, and caring” (Murphy) When I think of hero’s I think about the normal people playing there part into making this world a better place to live. I always went by the saying “not all hero’s wear capes” because when you say hero you think about the comic book hero’s and not the ones at live in your community. The Blind Side is a movie that shows how you can be a hero with …show more content…

The thing about this movie is that Michael was one of his worst villains. Michael wasn’t use to people actually caring about him so he was easily discouraged. Not a lot of people liked that fact that a white woman was taking in a black boy south down at that time. The kids and even the adult would say rude remarks to Michael to make him feel bad. And Michael was a big bear therefore on the outside he appears to be this big tough guy but on the inside he was actually hurt and the things that people would say actually affected him. He was a very insure young man because he didn’t have the moral support of a family to be his backbone when things went bad. The one thing he knew how to do was give up. Therefore it made it hard for him to succeed when he was the main person bringing himself down. Sadly Michael the only wasn’t the only one who didn’t believe in him. The people that discouraged Michael wasn’t because of something that he did it was mainly because of the color of his skin. They lived down south where there are still a lot of white people that still believes in segregation. Therefore they never truly gave Michael the chance to show that he is a nice and a well-mannered young man because the only thing that they would look at was the color of his skin. Michael had to endure physical and mental abuse by his teammates and their

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