The Blind Side Psychology

The Blind Side Film Analysis

AP Psychology

Kaitlyn L. Blankenship

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The Blind Side is a movie based on the true story or Michael Oher. Michael is a boy that hasn’t had the best luck in life. He bounces from home to home, living with friends when he can so he can afford “Hurt Village,” a dangerous part of town where his mom resides. One of his friends gets both his son and Michael into a school by appealing to the coach, showing him that Michael could play any sport. The coach pulls some strings and Michael is admitted. A young boy, SJ, and his sister, Collins, also attend Wingate Christian School. One night at a volleyball game, Sean Tuohy notices Michael cleaning up the bleachers after school. A few nights later, on

She asks him where he’s going, and he tells her he’s going to the school gym. She knows the school gym is closed and asks if he has anywhere to stay that night. He says yes. She responds and tells him “Don’t you dare lie to me.” Oher slowly shakes his head no. She brings him to their car, tells her son to make room, and tells Michael to get in. They go back to the huge and extravagant house the Tuohy's live in and Leigh Anne sets up sheets on the couch, because she said the bonus room has sample boxes all over it. When she comes up into her room with her husband, she starts asking if he thinks Michael will steal anything. Sean says simply “We’ll find out in the morning.” and turns out the light. The next morning, Leigh Anne is going downstairs and jokes to Sean “If you hear a scream, call the insurance adjuster.” and when she goes downstairs Oher is nowhere to be found. Leigh Anne runs outside, where Michael has his plastic grocery bag and is walking onto the street, leaving. She calls out to him and asks him if he is spending Thanksgiving with his family. He spends Thanksgiving with them, and Leigh Anne asks if he wants to stay with them long term. Michael responds that he “don’t want to go anywhere else” and Leigh Anne says “Alright, then.” She clears out a room for him, buys him a bed, desk, dresser, and clothes. She asks him if he

They conform to what everyone else is doing or saying and don’t necessarily think for themselves (Myers’ p. 653). Michael conformed to playing football. He didn’t have any objections against playing, but it also wasn’t necessarily his idea to play. His coach and the Tuohy’s encouraged it and he wanted to make people happy, so he tried. At first, he was really bad, but he kept working at it and getting help from his family and ended up a really good player that everyone in the country wanted on their teams for college. The Tuohy’s and Michael’s tutor, Miss Sue, went to Ole Miss and, of course, wanted Michael to go there as well. Michael wanted to make them proud, so he chose Ole Miss to go to school and follow in his family’s footsteps to make them proud. He kind of conformed to this decision as well. Michael really didn’t care where he went to school, but his family did and he wanted to give them something in return for being so kind to him and giving him everything he