Michael Oher Transformation

As infants grow up to be adults, they succeed and surpass phases in their development that prove mental growth has occurred. These phases, such as learning to be independent and being able to make decisions on their own or being persuaded by others, are well explained within theories created by theorists and psychologists such as Jean Piaget and Erik Erikson. These theories were created to show a unique psychological outlook on ones’ personal developmental growth. One of the most crucial phases is the adolescent stage; this stage sees a growth and development in the biosocial, cognitive, psychosocial and moral aspects of an adolescent’s life. The Blind Side’s Michael Oher is a great example of someone who is experiencing the adolescent stage. Michael Oher is a seventeen-year-old African American who grew up in the housing projects in Memphis, Tennessee and was separated from his drug-addicted mother. As a result, Michael went from foster home to foster home until he was adopted by the Touhy’s. Throughout the movie, Michael demonstrated various cognitive and psychosocial developments. Even through his struggles and experiences, he was able to overcome the obstacles and become successful as a student and as an athlete.

In the book Michael ohre has hit rock bottom, But he finds a good family to live with. He starts studied to get good grades and starts practicing football to get better at sports and then he gets into college and then gets in the NFL and later wins a super bowl.

This movie-The Blind Side talks about how Michael Oher achieved his self-esteem during his adolescent time. Between the plots of the movie, we also included some development theories such as Erik Erikson’s psychosocial cognitive theory; Maslow’s hierarchy needs theory and also the operant conditioning theory that associated with Michael’s development.

An Analysis of the Roles of Different People on Michael Oher in The Blind Side

Unfortunately, his father was murdered in prison so he could not overcome that obstacle. However, he was taken in by a foster family named the Tuohy’s who made him happy and treated him like real family. Biography.com says, “The young boy was finally taken in by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy when he was 16, and the Tuohys became Oher's legal guardians when he was 17”. In his junior year of high school, Oher began to excel in football. By the beginning of his senior year, Oher was the starting left tackle on the varsity football team. He quickly became a top football prospect in the state of Tennessee, which led to multiple scholarship offers from Division 1 schools.” This means that when he was taken in by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy and they became his legal guardians he began to excel at school and football. His mother was taken into a rehabilitation center, but this was an improvement since at least Michael was able to see her sometimes. His other siblings were all taken to foster care. It’s amazing that while he had all of these obstacles he still overcame them with a determined attitude and the help of some special people.

At the time Oher was a senior in high school. His mother, Denise Oher, was always on crack cocaine, at times Denise would tell Michael to close his eyes so she can put a drug in her body. Later, Oher was taken by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy. At the time, Oher was seventeen and soon the Tuohy´s were his legal guardians. Sean and Leigh both write books and does motivational speaking. The Tuohy’s have two sons and a daughter including Michael. They both attend ‘Briarcrest Christian School’. Leigh Tuohy had an interview and she stated, ¨I love Michael Oher as much as I love my two biological children. There's no difference between them.¨ (Peters). The Tuohy’s are able to provide very much of everything Oher has needed. For example, love, a home, family, and support. “If you know where your next meal is coming from, are you not poor.” ("Michael Oher Biography." TheFamousPeople.com).

Oher is a great example of how a character’s past does not define him or how successful he will be in the future. Michael is scarred by his upbringing, but now has a new

But as the lights went off and the world grew dark, Michael lingered on the gridiron until he was the last person left on the practice field. Looking around him to make sure no one was watching, he began to sprint up and down the field, pretending he was the starting running for the Texas Longhorns. He made sharp cut after sharp cut, juking imaginary defenders and stiff arming would-be tacklers. He celebrated his way toward the end zone, pretending that he won the championship for the Cowboys, his favorite team.

Nate Jackson is an NFL player. His dreams became reality. He didn’t come from a big Division I school. He didn’t come from a Division I school at all. He came from Division III

His grade point average is tremendously low, and this becomes a problem since he is being recruited to play collegiate football. Oher needs at least a 2.65 grade point average in order for him to play football in a division one college. Michael takes easy online courses to be able to raise his grade point average high enough to play football collegiately. Michael gets into a fight with one of his teammates at Ole Miss University.

At the beginning of the novel there are a couple key of events. One being when “Big Tony” helped Michael Oher leave from the ghetto and move to Memphis, Tennessee to enroll into Briarcrest Christian School. Without “Big Tony” Michael would have never had been able to make it out and would have eventually dropped out of school or worse. That leading to the most important event so far, Sean Tuohy beginning to notice and help Michael. That moment changed everyone's lives as shortly after Michael became a part of the family. For the most part, this story takes place in the early 2000s between various places in Memphis, Tennessee. Honestly, the first two chapters had my attention on and off. Although, by the third chapter my interest spiked when

The challenges a person faces in their everyday life prepares them for hardships in the future. A person who beats these challenges and overcomes adversity is prepared to succeed in any circumstances. One of the greatest examples of a person overcoming adversity and succeeding is Michael Oher. Michael Oher is a NFL football player who overcame a lot to get to where he stands today. On May 28, 1986, Michael Oher was born into a life of poverty with 12 brothers and sisters, a drug addict mom, and an incarcerated father. Correspondingly Biography.com, a popular online database for biographies, states, Michael was in and out of multiple foster homes; leaving him homeless for more than a quarter of his adolescent life.(Biography.com 1) The lack

The main character Micheal Oher’s, who is introduced to us through his rough life growing up. Micheal never knew his father and his mother was a drug addict. HIs mother gave birth to a total of fifteen children, who of course due to her drug addiction raised themselves basically. Michael spent his teenage years running away from a string of foster homes and situations. Michael got tired of foster care

The plot drops deeper into Oher's mind by reflecting how alienated he feels in the society. Another scene, after a Thanksgiving school play, Leigh Anne notices Michael walking on the road,

Michael Oher is an important character in the film, The Blind Side. Throughout the film this important character changes because of the love and support he gets from a family. At the beginning of the film we see Michael Oher as a big black boy, who's homeless, is uneducated, he's poor, unwanted, quiet, shy and has no confidence. One freezing, wet night he has nowhere to go. Leigh Anne Tuohy, a white, wealthy, well-dressed, confident, happily married mother, finds him on the road and invites him home with her and her family. This is when Michael Oher begins to change. Leigh Anne Touhy gives him a bedroom, home, food, clothes, education and a future. Most importantly, she give him love, and a family. Michael Oher changes when he gets a new family, and he is able to overcome obstacles with hard work, and the love and support from his new family. The message that it delivers is that you don’t have to be blood to be family. At the end of the film, the director shows Michael Oher as the opposite person of who he was at the beginning of the film. We see that Michael Oher gets offered scholarships by many universities because he learns how to play football, and by the hard work and determination he became a pro at it and therefore becomes a football star.