Michael's Reflection In Baby Teeth By Layla Merritt

Michael had some failures and obstacles in his life so far. Michael wanted to be a professional hockey player but he couldn’t because he was too small in height and he never grew large enough to play (Mills). In 1991, Michael was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. He had a rough time dealing with it and he kept it as a secret for 7 sevens until he told the public in 1998 in New York

The primary influence our perceptions is our Self Concept. While watching this film, I noticed some perceptual errors that the characters made. One of the common perceptual errors is the tendency to assume that others are like us. A lot of the people that interact with Michael make this error. The students at school tend to not interact with Michael because he is a different race and also has a different personality than they do. The teachers also are guilty of this same perceptual error because they’re not used to having students that don’t know the fundamentals of learning at Michael’s

Michael was brought up in poor project housing that was consumed by drugs, alcohol, and gangs. He was pushed in and out of foster homes forcefully being separated from his mother and siblings. As the movie showed in harsh flashbacks, Michael is deeply affected by the forceful separation from his mother. This constant absence from the mother or other supportive figures leaves Michael unable to make a secure attachment to any strong base. Erikson’s stage of trust versus mistrust is displayed due to Michael’s inability to count on the kindness and compassion of others which leads him to withdraw from his surroundings (p 248). This abrupt memory in life affects Michael in his idea of family and commitment. The harsh environment also kept Michael from attending school, and the times he did there was no support for him to even try in school.

Without the natural protective instinct of Michaels personality and the compassion Leigh Anne shows towards her adoptive son. the movie would not be as compelling and emotional as it is. Michael, coming from a rough background of a poor family and low education, learns to trust and love Leigh Anne and her family as she treats him like her own son. The only reason Michael gets to where he is on the football team is through Leigh Anne's constant motivation, support, and love. Michael feels as though it is his duty to protect not only her family, but also use this motivational instinct on the field to help his team win. This outlook is cruicial to Michael's amazing football abilities. Before he knew his self worth, Michael did not have much to defend in his life. The love and support from Leigh Annes family encouraged Michael to take his powerful defensive qualities and use them in every benefiting way he can in

In the beginning of the book, Michael was an all-star baseball pitcher. Game after game he pitched very excellent even though they’re only allowed so many pitches a week because they are in little league. Michael is a twelve-year-old boy that can pitch eighty-miles per hour. Michael saw this bad kid running from the cops, so Michael throws the ball from home plate all the way past the field and hit the guy in the head knocking him to the ground. Michael meets this wonderful girl one day and later on founded out that she was his hero’s daughter and wasn’t too happy with her when he found out because she didn’t tell him.

Leigh Tuohy is the mother who adopts Michael; her character is a caring person which makes her very believable. Parents have a certain love for their child that is indescribable to words in which she displays that well in this movie. You start to learn the characters more when they went shopping for Michael’s cloths. Big mike is the name Michael went by until Leigh learned that he hated that name because of his home life and where the name came from. That was the first time Michael had opened up about his homes life to Leigh. I love the character Michael in this move because of his ambition to aspire in life. Despite the obstacles life put in the way he found a way to overcome them regardless of the people or situation he was faced with. For Leigh, I love the will and courage to go out on a limb for a teenager she didn’t know. The time and money she invested in someone who was not able to pay her back, such a compassionate act of

With his family and his passion for football, Michael has become more of a man. He finally speaks for himself as he did with the inspector lady and speaks for his family as he did when he beat up the gangsters that were insulting his “mother”. He is now more confident than before shown by

The lack of ability of creating friendships when he was a child could explain why he always surrounded himself with children, and preferred to be in the presence of children than adults. He always stated that children were pure in the heart and less manipulative than adults. The Id of Michael struggled with the ego. The ego was never able to keep under control his desires and pleasures, allowing his Id to take over. His creation of the amusement park shows how the Id overpowered his ego. The amusement park wasn’t only for children to enjoy, but for him to enjoy and relive his childhood. Freud would analyze this gratification as becoming a core aspect of Michael’s personality.

Through the use of low-key lighting, long-shot and dialogue, Hancock made me recognize the significance of friends and family by revealing to me the positive influence one young teenager can have on a range of people - in this case Michael is having a positive influence on Sean, his football team/coach and Leigh Anne. Not only did Michael influence these characters in a positive way, but they influenced him as well and changed him for the better. I'm concerned about the fact that our society is not improving instead it is becoming much worse with all the stereotyping that is rumoured. Avoid stereotyping others because you are not going to receive anything from it apart from putting others down. A million people did not believe in Michael at the start, but I am certain they changed their view on him

Michael struggles making friends. one way he does is in paragraph 21-28 it says Michael hadn’t made any friends the teachers barely notice him. This is probably because his parents dead and he is being quiet in class. But one day Michael went to the pet store looking for something small and living and hermit crabs where a dollar. When Michael got home he showed the hermit crab to Aunt Esther. “Where is he” says Aunt Esther. Then some eyes poke out of a shell.

In How to Read Literature like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster uses physical imperfections to tell a story about the character’s past. The writers use deformities to set the characters apart and give them a uniqueness. They try to make a thematic point by using deformities. Physical imperfections can symbolize the character’s morals. Some characters do not use their imperfections as a crutch.

As a young child Michael suffered abuse and enforcement to succeed by his father. Michael has said that this has affected his physical development as there had been times when his father would come to see him and he would be sick. This was just from the fear he had of his father hurting him if he did not do well.

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

I feel as if this scene would have been more historically accurate 20 years ago, but there are racially insensitive people all over, some just hide their insensitiveness better than others. Another scene was where in Michael’s first football game, the referees only threw flags on plays that he made, when there was no reason for a flag to be thrown. This I feel is very accurate historically, football and the South are hand in hand, and anything out of the ordinary or anything that threatens a team will not go overlooked by anyone. The referees most likely felt that Michael had an advantage over the other players just because he was African American, not knowing that a few weeks prior Michael couldn’t even tackle another player, and still had to think that the person he was to tackle was a threat to his family.

“All behavior is our constant attempt to reduce the difference between what we want (the pictures in our heads) and what we actually have (the way we situations in the world)” (Glasser, p. 32, 1932). If Michael and Taylor do not make a life change they will be incapable of forming a relationship outside of the current sibling one they hold. Taylor screaming at Michael when he addresses the issue of her HIV is a sign of denial and embarrassment. Because she chooses not to move forward from her divorce she will continue to live an unhealthy lifestyle and struggle to find her self-identity and self-worth. Her role in life will always be that of a helpless child. Michael consciously chooses to change his diet in moderation showing improvement and change.