This paper will provide an introductory description of the film’s character Michael Oher and the rationale for the selected personality theories by supporting reasons with professional literature. An analysis of the character's personality according to two personality theories using specific theoretical constructs from each theory supported by specific examples from the film will be provided. Next there will also be an analysis of how internal and external factors influence the character's personality
Michael Oher was an under privileged teenager who bounced from foster house to foster house and ended up at his mom’s house who was a drug addict. Shortly after he moved in with her she passed away. Michael was enrolled into a private school called Briarcrest Christian school. He was barely able to read and write when he began at the school. Michael met the Tuohy family and they took it as a blessing. They invited him to stay the night, but this turned in to much more. The Tuohy’s started treating
by the Baltimore Ravens, Michael Oher, holds an inspiring and heartfelt story about his life and journey from the midst of poverty to a rising football star. The popular film “The Blind Side” directed by John Lee Hancock is an accurate film over Oher's life and stays true to the time period of his childhood and upbringing in which his life took place, the facts about his life, as well as the history about him growing up into adulthood as a football player. Michael Oher went through many obstacles
Blacks from gaining success. Approximately sixty years later, writers John Lee Hancock and Michael Lewis bring the story of Michael Oher, a young homeless Black man who achieves success through the help of his adopted White family, to the big screen in a movie called The Blind Side. If Richard Wright was able to travel to Oher’s time period he would be pleased with his story because of where Oher came from, how Oher was able to achieve success, and the reactions from those in Oher’s time period to his
goals. The Blind Side is a football story about a 16 year old African American homeless teenager named Michael Oher. His dad was murdered while he was in high school, and his mom has some very bad addictions to crack and cocaine. As a result, Michael does not live with her anymore. Throughout the story, the Tuohys, a family that attends the same school as Michael, notice multiple times that Michael does not have place to stay or food to eat. The Tuohy family begins to welcome him into their home and
The movie chosen to write a character analysis on was The Blind Side. Michael Oher, the protagonist, was a teenage boy who was taken away from his mother at a young age. After being transferred from one foster family to another, he would still run away and go search for his mother. At last, the Tuohy family legally adopts him and provides him with food, shelter, education and all of his needs. In terms of Oher’s physical wellness, he would rank towards a high level of wellness and vital life for
passage will show you two prime examples of perceptive people Michael Oher and Marshall Mathers or Eminem. Michael grew up in the slums of Memphis TN. His dad gone, mom in and out of jail. He lived in a foster care home for most of his young years. He had very little schooling in fact he failed 1st and 2nd grade. This is before he met the Tuohy family. He had no place to call home until one cold rainy night when the Tuohy family saw Michael walking down the street walking to the high school because
Michael Lewis’ The Blind Side suggests that independence is not a factor of success. In the game of football, players need their teammates in order to succeed. Michael Oher shows that when he has a family to depend on, he becomes more successful than when he was independent. The Tuohy family depends on Michael. Michael and Sean Junior become closer, as well as making them happier, which is a success. Everyone needs someone to depend on for guidance, support, and encouragement to be successful. In
family and friends around him. Set in United States, Michael Lewis's September 2, 2006 novel, The Blind Side, The Blind Side is based on the remarkable true story of Baltimore Ravens' offensive left tackle Michael Oher. At a young age, Oher had already been abandoned by his dad, and his mother struggled to find him a good home. He also had countless siblings to take care of. At that point in
larger-than-life terms than the larger-than-life Michael Oher. Where he "came from" was, in many ways, a living nightmare. But as the biographical film "The Blind Side" clearly illustrates, Michael Oher did a lot with "what happens," doing so with the help of a surrogate family who refused to let the young man's early life dictate his future. Directed by John Lee Hancock, "The Blind Side" is based on a true story of a homeless African-American teenager, Michael Oher. Michael has no idea who his father is and
consequences on childhood development. The importance of this early childhood nurturance is evident in the story of Michel Oher as described in the movie The Blind Side. Due to his neglectful upbringing, Michael has many academic deficits including language problems as well as having limited social and stress management skills. However, when taken in by the Tuohy family Michael begins to thrive and flourish due to the encouraging attention he receives and the positive environment in which he now lives
Blind Side is a true story about the hard life of Michael Oher, and how he turned his life from being basically homeless to starting in the NFL. Michael Oher, a 6’4 African American male, was homeless. He was taken in by a nice couple named Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy and they turned him around in life and pushed him very hard to be good at football. And then in 2009, he was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens. The Blind Side was written by Michael Lewis, about a young man who was living in a bad home
University Media Analysis: The Blind Side John Lee Hancock directed the true story of a journey taken by Michael Oher, a homeless black teen, who was discovered and taken in by a wealthy, Southern, white family. The inspiration for the movie came from not only the true story, but also from the book written about this story called, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, by Michael Lewis. Oher was constantly in between foster families due to his drug addict mother and absent father. The Tuohy family
a few lucky stars such as Michael Oher, athletics provide an avenue to reach stardom. “The Blind Side” is a 2009 film following the true life story of Oher, his rise from a tough upbringing in Memphis project housing to his eventual fate as a first round draft pick to the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens. Growing up in a broken family, Michael was separated from his crack-addicted mother at the age of 7 and never knew his father. After bouncing to multiple foster homes, Michael finally is given an opportunity
Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher. The title of this film has two different meanings. The first, is a quarterback’s dead zone, which the left tackle must protect in the sport of football. The second, is the dead zone of good intentions, which we might just pass by carelessly. Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) is a student at Briarcrest Christian School who is an under privileged African American teenager living in the streets of Memphis who is shuffled between the welfare system. Oher was rescued and taken
story, the life of Michael Oher, a homeless teenager who was able to defeat great obstacles in order to achieve his goal- to be a first round draft pick in the national football league. Michael Oher had an extremely tough upbringing, as he had an absent father and his mother was hooked on drugs. Oher was in and out of foster homes and sometimes even living on the streets. The head football coach at Wingate, a very exclusive private school, saw the possibilities that lay inside Michael and got him accepted
above was said by Michael Oher, the main character in the movie, The Blind Side. This phenomenal movie portrays a real life story about a young man who was affected by racism, discrimination and social class challenges. Michael’s childhood consisted of many foster care homes and life without education. It wasn’t until Michael’s height, race and size was noticed by a school football coach, for him to potentially see a future starting for himself. Briarcrest Christian School gave Michael his first chance
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
Blind Side is about an African-American 17-year-old named Michael, “Big Mike”, Oher. Michael is predominantly identified by his size, hence the nickname, but he is also a sensitive young man. Growing up in the foster care system, he runs away each time he is placed in a new home. Michael has been sleeping on his friend’s couch until his parents decide it is time for him to go somewhere else. Not feeling comfortable with the idea of kicking Michael out onto the streets, his friend’s father goes to a Christian
The Blind Side: Achieving the American Dream Michael Lewis’ The Blind Side centers around a homeless sixteen-year-old African- American boy named Michael Oher (known as “Big Mike”), who was taken in by the prosperous Southern family, the Tuohys. Oher was six-foot-five and weighed 330 pounds, but every time he plays football he moves “like he’s a hundred sixty-five pounds” (Lewis 76). His astounding speed and immense strength in football attracted many college coaches across America. To have