I watched the movie 23 Blast, it was based on a high school football player going blind. Playing football has always been his dream and when he becomes blind it was the worst thing that could happen to him. Travis, the football player had a lot of anger in him, that caused him not to get out of his room or see anyone. Although Travis may be blind, he overcomes the judgments and tribulations. In this movie you see and learn what being blind is like. You hear and see the different beliefs of people, on how they treat people with this disability. Some characteristics this movie displayed about being blind is not being able to do certain things you couldn’t do before, for instance, drive, walk, eat, or go to a normal school, but this movie shows …show more content…
He explained to his best friend what it’s like and he said: “Imagine not being able to see anything anymore, it’s scary.” He didn’t want to have someone to teach him how to walk with a crane, change, and feel things, he felt embarrassed. Although Travis loses his sight, he’s still able to walk, eat, play football and not always have to have someone around him. I feel like in this movies the individual with a disability should be treated equally like everyone else no matter their difference. You see that not everyone is going to treat someone that has a disability the same way, for instance, put them on a sports team or school. Travis himself believed he was going to be homeschooled or put into a special school. He and many others also had no idea he was still going to be on the football team. Many people in his community were very angry for him to be on the team, they believed he would bring down the team. But all of this made Travis stronger, he became more religious, and realized who was really by his …show more content…
This movie portrays a positive light on Travis because it changed people’s perspective on being disabled like the student’s athlete director of the high school himself judged Travis just by being blind. He believed that Travis should not be on the team because he could pull them back from going to the playoffs, but turned out to be the opposite. Travis actually made the final play to go to the playoffs. Travis changed a lot of people’s view on disabled people, his situation made people open-minded and made them realize that he and other disabled people are not different. People became more accepting and patient with disabled people. For instance, Travis’s mother was very weak, not accepting the fact that her son was blind and won’t be able to do some things he used to do. People from his own football team was treating him differently in beginning, for example pushing him down during practice or talking to the coach to kick him off. His team wasn't the only people that were treating him differently, his girlfriend stopped talking to him and didn’t even visit him once. People in the hallways of his school were all staring at him the first day he got back, it was like he was a different
Suddenly losing his eyesight at a young age and having to deal with living in a whole new world, Marcus Engel tells his story of how he coped with losing his eyesight. Marcus Engel described his hardships and struggles after he became blind in his book, After This…An Inspirational Journey for All the Wrong Reasons. The book begins with Engel mentioning his college life and how he was excited to be going back home for vacation. While he was with his friends he got into a bad car accident that left him blind. The rest of the book tells his emotional life changing story of how he learned to accept his blindness and to do daily tasks. In his stay at the hospital he made a goal to get back to college.
High school is a big time for change in a teenagers life. They go through problems with friends, family, grades, and sports. For Andy Jackson, a 17 year old student at Hazelwood High School, he went through all of those troubles. He plays for the basketball team with his friends Rob Washington, Tyrone Mills, and B.J. Carson. One night after basketball practice, Andy was drinking alcohol and driving which led them to get in a car crash. Andy, Tyrone, and B.J. escaped the car with a few cuts and bruises, but Rob got stuck and burned to death. Rob’s death brought Andy to blame himself. He turns away from his friends, his girlfriend, Keisha, and his family. Andy changes negatively after the car crash; he becomes insecure, he closes up his feelings, and he turns emotionally weak.
In conclusion, I believe the movie had a wonderful way of inspiring children that no matter what their disability is, whether they are deaf, have autism, are visually impaired, so on and so forth, they can do anything they put their mind to. I really enjoyed the way the movie included emotions into explaining the disability at hand. It shows many realities of being hearing impaired. The movie would be great for children to watch and grow empathy for those who are different at a young
The story line in this movie holds the audiences interest by involving real life situations. Majority of kids that come from poverty do not have the options of better schools because of where they are from and the schools that are in their district. In the movie Michael Oher is the homeless teenager that lived a hard life and was eventually
Although the two men have very different situations, their blindness helps them to see what child of theirs was really there for them and who wasn’t in the end. What the whole theme of blindness really comes down to is the fact that both men needed to be blind in order to really know anything about the loyalty and dedication of their family members. The similarities between the plot and subplot deepen the story of the play, and overall give readers and viewers multiple parallels to figure out and connect together, making it more interesting to read and/or watch the
The movie The Blind Side was released in 2009. It is about a young man, named Michael Oher, who grew up in a poor environment. In the beginning of the movie, Michael was homeless and not currently attending school. All of that changed when a woman, named Leigh Anne Tuohy, offered Michael the chance to stay with her and her family. The Tuohy family was well off, unlike Michael, so it was an adjustment for both the family and him to live together. However, the family was very warm and welcoming to Michael, which differed from many of the other people Michael encountered. In the movie, Michael experienced racism, discrimination, and prejudice towards him from a variety of people.
The use of symbolism such as the physical and emotional meanings of blindness can describe different meanings behind elements of the story. In the critical essay, the author discusses why an author might choose to make a character bling and what it means. Diane Andrews Henningfeld, the author of the critical essay explains, “clearly the author wants to emphasize other levels of sight and blindness beyond physical.” Blindness can be more than just the levels of physical sight and the author wants that to be understood. The author wants to emphasize and make it very clear that other levels of sight and blindness exist like not seeing the beauty in life and being blind to it beyond just being able to see with your eyes. The quote can feel something about the characters traits and how they can be so opposite from their physical abilities. This quote Conveys the facts. People can see in different ways. It is stated that,“although he is blind, he ‘sees’ how to get along with others in profound and important ways. By contrast, the narrator, although sighted, does not see how his isolation damages himself, his wife, and their relationship. He is
Planet of the Blind is brilliantly written by Stephen Kuusisto; he delves into his life story and gives readers exceptionally realistic descriptions of his experiences. Beginning the memoir, it is clear that Kuusisto is undergoing an obvious struggle between himself and his blindness. Born with retinopathy of prematurity, Kuusisto’s parents do their best to avoid his impairment. Due to this, Kuusisto describes himself as developing a sixth sense of giving off the perception that he could see significantly better than what he actually could. Throughout the memoir, Kuusisto chronologically tells of significant events during his childhood, teenage years, and adulthood and how he came to accept his disability and be confident in himself. During the course of these significant events, Kuusisto uses poetry to convey his emotions while also using the rhetoric of emancipation.
Many people make an assumption they are not blind to life itself whether ignorance plays a part or pride. In Cathedral by Raymond Carver, it describes a few myths that society has portrayed and opinions of the visual impaired. The main focus is getting to know the person before drawing a conclusion. Its not fair to anyone to be neglected whether you are visual impaired or have the functionality of what is considered to be a normal human being.
Troy Maxson has had a hard life especially growing up. One day, Troy was with a girl and his dad came looking for him a and his dad saw him with the girl, so his dad tried to "get with" the girl he was with. Afterwards Troy pushed and shoved his dad and ran away. For Troy to get money he was robbing and getting money. Troy has been through a lot in his life, but at least he feels responsible towards his children. He wants his son Cory to succeed in life, so he wants Cory to stop playing football and go get a job. Troy won't support Cory in football as Troy thinks it's a
The life we once knew changes before our eyes, and we start seeing what no one else sees. We may start seeing poverty, hunger, violence, and death, or we may start seeing beauty, life, and hope. The metaphor of blindness exist in our typical, everyday life through films, stories, games,
By saying that his idea of blind people came from the movies shows that he probably has not had any real life encounters with a person who is blind, therefore the only idea he has of blind people are the kind that are portrayed in movies. However, by saying that blind people “never laugh” and “move slowly” makes them seem dysfunctional as human beings. Blind people cannot see, but that does not correlate to how quickly they move. By saying that blind people move slowly, that indicates that they are “disabled” and not able to keep up at the same pace as others. Not only is the fact that the narrators perception of those who are blind awkward, but it makes it seem as if the blind have their own stereotypes—which is the foundation of discrimination and prejudice.
It was a dismal, January day when Jackson Edge first arrived at Lanceton secondary. Right away, everyone knew he was out to start trouble. However, no one knew what his first move was going to be. He always had a look, a look of hatred, that he carried with him wherever he went. He could’ve been upset by the fact that he was at a new school with no friends halfway through the school year. Or, he could’ve been upset for whatever other reason. However, we did know one thing; Jackson Edge was going to grow and make a name for himself at our school, and he will soon go from the depths of the high school food chain, all the way to the top.
(Ordinary World) There was a boy named Jordan, who was 18 year olds. He was raised by his mother in a fairly poor environment. He regularly attends school, but is lacking effort in his classes. Usually he is late to school, or just sits in his classes, sleeps, and doesn’t do any homework. The crowd he hangs out with has a bad reputation around school, during his free time, Jordan tends to hang out with these friends at the park, playing football, or catch depending on the day. Hangs out with bad people and he gets seen playing football with them at the park. Among this, they also smoke and do drugs, further proving their awful reputation.
The Blind Side is a 2009 American semi-biographical drama film written and directed by John Lee Hancock. The film took place at Memphis, Tennesse and featured Michael Oher, an offensive lineman who played for the Baltimore Raven of the NFL. For most of his childhood life, 17 year old Oher has been in foster care with different families yet runs away every time he was placed in a new home. His life change when his friend’s father asks Burt Cotton, coach of Wingate Christian School, to help his son and Mike enrol. Impressed by Mike’s size and athleticism, Cotton gets him admitted despite his abysmal academic record. At his new school, Oher was befriended by a boy named Sean Jr. “SJ”. One cold night, SJ’s mother Leigh Anne