The movie Blind Side begins with the author, Michel Lewis explaining the incident of Joe Thiemann in which he broke his leg into two parts. He then explains the importance of a left tackle in the game of football. After a brief description author introduce Michael Oher; tall, beefy, quiet and athletic guy who is being interviewed by what it seems like a government officer. Michel who was abandoned at very young age and didn’t knew much about his father nor his mother, although he wanted to stay with his mother who was an alcoholic and struggles to find an orphan house or a good family that can take care of Michel. Despite not having much a family nor someone who takes care of him, Michel never gave up on the situation and lived most of his …show more content…
life on street or at someone’s house. He showed us the many ways to fight against the situations and problems that life threw at him. Despite the fact that Michel’s mother never looked after him, the film based on Michel Lewis’s The Blind Side: Evolution of a game showed us how a teen overcomes his obstacle and reaches his dreams. The film starts by showing how Michel was failing his classes much of the time, despite knowing that fact Big Tony enrolled him and his son into the Briar crest Christian School. Although Michel didn’t want to attend a school nor he liked to study. Which didn’t make him quit the school. The movie showed us many lesions about life. But in my opinion one thing the author tried to tell us throughout the film was to never give up on something that is difficult. Always fight against whatever the situation life throws at us. Always stand tall and go with the flow. Once, Michel was walking on the street on the cold evening that’s when he was spotted by a Tuohy’s family. A family who were really gentle, caring and so loving that they took Michel to their house from street. Leigh Anne Tuohy, a caring mother who ask Michel about where he is headed in this cold evening. Michel’s responded by saying a gym because it is lot warmer then outside. Those lines touched her feeling and without any further questions she decided to take him home. He didn’t mention or show any sign saying that he is homeless and he didn’t have a place to go. Soon, Michael started living with Tuohy’s family where he became a part of the family.
The fact that many people questioned Michael and Tuohy’s family about their culture and race, neither of them cared about other people’s thinking especially Tuohy’s family. Sean Tuohy, who pays a Michael’s tuitions and became an adoptive father enrolled Michael in a football tryout. Where Michel despite not knowing anything about the game tried much harder to and became a part of the team. A period where Michel coach gave up on him after teaching him the game many time, but Michel didn’t give up on the game and learn the game showed one of the strongest reason that teach us not to give up on anything. Another strong example we saw in the movies was when Michel was doing everything he can and didn’t give up on the time when he had to graduate in order to attend a university and also to try out for the pro football league. He was very law then GPA level requirement and no one expected him to graduate. He showed a great confidence in himself and decided that he will try hard in order to get higher grades and graduate from high school. With lots of effort in studies and help of only few people he ended up graduating from high school and went on to The University of
Tennessee. There were many parts in the movie where it shows Michel as a strong person mentally. Throughout the movie he faced many challenges in his life. But didn’t gave up on single challenge. He put maximum effort at each challenge he faced and as a result he was selected as a first round draft pick from Baltimore Ravens in 2009. He knew success don’t come easily. He needed a help which was offered by Tuohy’s family throughout the movie. Despite knowing very little about Michel they adopted him and helped him achieve what he deserved.
Being bold is crucial when exemplifying heroism. Leigh Anne Tuohy steps out of her comfort zone multiple times in the movie The Blind Side to positively affect Michael Oher. Michael Oher is a homeless African American teenager who grew up in the projects around Memphis, TN. Micheal comes from a drug centered and broken family, which lead him to be controlled by Family Services. SJ Tuohy, the son of Leigh Anne, formed the first relationship with Micheal when they bonded over their grade school habits. One
When Michael was a sophomore in high school he tried out for the varsity team and was cut. Michael was devastated when he got the news. Michael was determined to get on this team and he never gave up. Michael grew taller and expanded his game as his hard work paid off. Michael would perform so well in his final two years of school, he was
The famous retired basketball player Michael Jordan sees eye to eye with Gladwell vision of success. According to Michael Jordan “ I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career.I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 Times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again that is why I succeed.” by using facts and figures Michael Jordan highlights all his failures and how he grew from them and that to get to success you need work and
The Blind Side is a heartwarming and compelling story of the NFL player Michael Oher, who is adopted into a family that is a significantly higher social class than he. The story is a true account of a boy that went from rags to riches and depicts eloquently the social stratification in the United States.
The movie The Blind Side is about a homeless young man named Michael Oher, who was from one the worst
In this paper will be talking about the three sociological perspectives as it pertains to the fraternities and sororities in today’s world. I have chosen this topic because it can be easily understood in all three perspectives.
Many Hollywood produced films glorify the life of a certain person to make the given individual seem more interesting and appealing to the audience. However, in a few cases, the film actually degrades the person in hopes of telling a “rags to riches” story. This was most certainly the case in the film The Blind Side, based on the life of African-American football player, Michael Oher. The Blind Side negatively displayed and affected Michael instead of benefitting him and displaying him in a positive light. In his book, I Beat The Odds, Michael reflects on his life :
In the blockbuster movie The Blind Side, director John Lee Hancock brings to light an emotionally charged and compelling story that describes how a young African American teenager perseveres through the trials, tribulations and hardships that surround his childhood. The themes of class, poverty, and also the love and nurturing of family encapsulate the film mainly through the relationship that Mrs. Tuohy and Michael Oher build during the entirety of the movie. This analysis will bring together these themes with sociological ideas seen throughout the course.
This theme is very present in the book throughout the whole story but none other than the final race in Berlin. The race itself was not looking up for the boys with race odds getting worse and worse and the race continued. They had the worse lane, the boys were feeling extreme pain in their bodies, they got off to an extremely late start, and Don Hume was in terrible racing conditions and dozing off in the boat. All hope seemed lost for the boys but instead of throwing in the towel and giving up but they persevered and grinded out the rest of the race. With nobody giving up and nothing mattered to them but getting that gold rowing medal. With this determination the team won gold by the slimmest of margins but if they gave up earlier in the race they would have had shame on them plus the fact that their determination was for nothing. This idea can be applied in real life with the fact that everyone has to go through hardships and overcome some of the toughest challenges have to be after a person’s hardest drawbacks. However, this lesson can give us insight of how to survive these
The Blind Side by John Lee Hancock intended to idealize the social rejection which tensions the perception on how people are sighted “different” or “other”. The first hindsight depicts the acknowledged tourist of a black, homeless teen (Michael Oher) impacted disconnection of environmental surroundings despite his structure of aggression and primal instinct capability on the football field. Hence, his absolute value contradicts the endured hardship on unity within the white community established in the Long Shot provokes the impulsive grouped teachers in the table whilst Michael is isolated on his own. Michael instigates himself to question presiding his alienation from lost disaffection signalling symbolic gesture from the direct speech of the teacher’s opinions on “I don’t think….” reveals the reputation of Michael considered an outcast. The sarcastic tone when “he writes his name…. barely” socially rejects him. His supplementations of childhood obstacles ratify the contradiction of freedom and equality in contrast to the Civil Rights Movement based on colour discriminating the repetition of the word “white” effectively speaks “I look and see white everywhere, white walls, white floors and a lot of white people” optimizes his vain separation and feelings of isolation to project his empathy. The director plays an authentic appreciation to
I was especially interested in this movie because I am, myself, a college athlete. This movie brought out the importance of having a life and goals other than playing a professional sport. Too many young athletes these days have unrealistic goals of going to the pros, while in actuality the chances of them doing so are next to impossible. Many athletes are in college just to play their sport, and do not care about their academic performance. Eventually, the limelight will fade and professional athletes will become has-beens left to reminisce about their “glory days.”
The Blind Side is a film that follows the life of Michael Oher, an underprivileged high school football player that is supported by an upper class family, the Tuohys, and taken into their home. They provide him with shelter and a bed that he says he has never had. As the Tuohys are driving down the street one night, they see Michael walking alone in the cold. Mrs. Tuohy tells her husband to stop the car and she lets Michael inside. The couple discusses later that night about whether it was a good idea or not to allow Michael into their home. They ultimately decide that they are doing what is best for him and they can sacrifice a little bit of their life to help Michael. They support him in school, on the football field, and when he is
The movie we watched showed all the emotions that can come from sport. Whether it would be a gratifying moment with a win for your team, or a devastating moment with a loss. That is what makes you grow when you are a younger kid growing up. A kid who can handle a loss in his life with the same dignity as a win will become a better person in the future.
Even by just watching this movie, I felt the strong understand of challenging yourself for the better instead of going with the status quo of failure. Instead of accepting what seems to come for you, change your future, because every moment counts. And just because you may not win every time, doesn’t mean you didn’t learn anything. You could’ve learned education, self worth, and individuality within a team. Now you’ve won something that could change a person for a lifetime. And that’s why I really enjoyed this movie. I enjoyed the opportunities to interpret the obvious messages differently. That’s why someone else might get a different vibe out of the Coach Carter. And that’s more than I could hope for in a movie.
Before I started taking the course of sociology I wasn’t really expecting to learn anything, it was just supposed to be an easy online class. However, that was not the case. It challenged my mind. I started to see sociology all around me, starting with family, then friends, and how I see things overall in general. The fact that we have an everyday life in which there are patterns in ways of living is what sets a platform for a sociological breakdown and for being a part in what we do. A better way of understanding ourselves. We use sociology in many ways every day. One central and important study of sociology is the study of everyday social life. Everyday life and sociology are definitely two different words and situations, but they tend to hold a close relationship. While sociology is the study of the human interaction, everyday life consists of everyday human interaction. Everyday life is filled by human beings interacting with one another, ideas, and emotions. Sociology studies the interactions with all of these and shows how mere interaction resulted in things such as ideas. For an example, race and ethnicity are important concepts in the field of sociology and are ones that are studied a great deal. Race plays a large role in everyday human interactions and sociologists want to study how, why, and what the outcomes are of these interactions. Current sociological theories focus mainly on how there are many different factors in our everyday items of life, like movies. We were assigned a final to write a review for a movie in sociological form. The movie that was on the list that also happened to be one of my favorite movies, Toy Story. When we were assigned the assignment, I never thought about how in-depth it was with sociol...