Sociological Concepts In The Bind Side By John Lee Hancock

The world is far from a uniform system. Each and every individual is placed in a different situation depending on everything from location, race, beliefs, and economic status. Psychology looks at how individuals come out of these specific environments and how they transform into an adult through the trials and tribulations of their growth. In The Blind Side, director John Lee Hancock focuses on an athletically skilled African-American teen, Michael Oher, who is transformed from a homeless orphan from the projects into a highly sought after college football prospect through a positive change in family, school, and supportive surroundings.

The Blind Side is a movie that depicts the story of a young African American homeless teenager named Michael Oher. Michael falls out of the education system at a young age and has no parental guidance to lead him in the right direction. Michael eventually meets a rich white family who decides to take him in as their child. Throughout the duration of the movie society’s gender norms are placed upon him. This movie portrays how the rich help the poor; the rich being a white family and the poor being a black male.

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.

The movie The Blind Side is a film about real life events that happened to an upcoming football player. The film features a young African-American man named Michael Oher who is taken in by a white family named the Tuohys. The family helps Michael to overcome his difficulties and become a successful football player. This movie includes many situations that incorporate psychological principles. Some of the main principles that stand out are prejudice towards Michael, motivation from Michael, and altruism from the Tuohys.

The Blind Side is a movie based on a person who has gone through these events in life named Michael Oher. This African American teenager is homeless and lost because he was abandoned at a young age which led him to have a very poor education and no one wanting him because he was a different skin tone to everyone else. The author shows a different type of techniques such as close-up camera shots on faces showing emotion, sound and how it shows Michael Oher to be seen shy in the film as an unfortunate African American individual. Themes such as Kindness, overcoming obstacles, and stereotypes are interconnected from the real-life world and the movie that Hancock directs.

Through out the novel racism, poverty, and domestic violence are practically their own characters. These themes not only effect many characters but also manifest themselves symbolically within them. This creates a literary work that typifies the horrors that existed during the early twentieth century. Thus, laving a handprint on society that will never be

The Blind Side is a movie about a seventeen-year-old homeless African-American teen, Michael Oher who has drifted in and out of different schools his entire life(“The Blind Side”,2009). With the troubling past he had with both of his parents, he grew up without having a healthy relationship with both his parents. A woman named Leigh Tuohy, and her husband Sean Tuohy take Michael into their own home. Leigh, after spending time with Michael starts to feel like a mother to him, and Michael feels the same way about her. After they both create a bond with Michael, both Leigh and Sean become legal guardians of Michael. With Michael growing up in poverty, and not having a positive relationship with his parents, he gets introduced to a positive

The Blind Side, written and directed by John Less Hancock, is a nonfiction sports film based on Michael Oher, who is an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens. In this biographical film, Oher was a homeless African-American teenager and had little formal education. He grew up in the Memphis’s projects and his mother was a drug addict while his father was never in his life. Due to Oher’s family circumstances, he was in and out of foster homes. One day, Leigh Anne Tuohy and her husband Sean Tuohy decided to adopt Oher. The Tuohy’s provided Oher with a home, a tutor to improve his grades, and invested in his football career. Oher signed on with the University of Mississippi and later got drafted as an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens of National Football League (NFL) in 2009.

Many movies and books have moral lessons or ethical dilemmas and the movie “The Blind Side” is no different. This movie will capture many hearts to those who are in touch with their own morals. It is based on a true life story of an African American boy named Michael who lives in a bad section of the city. Michael is slow at learning and keeps to himself for the most part. At school he comes across another boy in school named S.J. Tuohy, who is quite a bit younger but tries to talk to Michael. After S.J.’s mom, Leigh Ann Tuohy, hears of Michael and finds out he doesn’t really have a place to call home, she invites him to stay with their family. Everyone in the family eventually gets attached to Michael and

The Blind Side is a film released in 2009 that is based off of a true story about current football legend Michael Oher. It follows the story of a white family consisting of Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy with their children SJ and Collins Tuohy, who take in a homeless African-American teenage boy named Michael Oher. Michael grew up in the bad part of town in Memphis, Tennessee and was raised in foster care since his mother was a drug addict and he had no idea who his father was. Because of his enormous size, he draws the attention of the football coach at Wingate Christian School and despite his ridiculously low GPA, he is accepted. One day on the playground, a kid named SJ Tuohy comes up to him and befriends Michael. Later, it is SJ’s family who takes Michael in as one of their one and helps him to succeed and later adopts him into their family.

The Blind Side" is the genuine story of Michael Oher, homeless teenager who was able to overcome great obstacles with a specific end goal to turn into a first round draft pick in the NFL. Michael Oher had a rough childhood as he didn’t know his father and his mother was addicted to drugs. He was in and out of foster homes and now and again living in the city. The football mentor at Wingate, a non-public school, saw football potential in Michael and got him conceded into the prestigious school. Be that as it may, he had learning inabilities and still did not have a perpetual home. Leigh Anne Tuohy, the mother of a Wingate understudy, Collins, and wife of the proprietor of a few Taco Bell eateries, gets some answers concerning Michael's problem and welcomes him to keep with it at their home. When Michael is in the Tuohy home, a cozy relationship creates in the middle of him and the Tuohys. The one night stay transforms into a lasting living circumstance for Oher. Leigh Anne makes it her own main goal to verify Michael has all that he needs candidly and scholastically to move on from secondary school and to get

The film focuses on two despondent people who are caught between the haves and have-nots, where social class rank was based on educational background, income, and work level status. The American economy of the 1950s was a booming explosion of capitalism and a constant growing infrastructure that demanded new workers to fill the gigantic office buildings of corporations and service workers to handle the support of public needs. America during this period in history was a bustling and busy atmosphere full of innovation, new occupations, suburban living, and rapid mobility. Social class distinction was on everybody’s mind and social equality was at the top of the list.

“The Blind Side” is a true story about a young black teen named Michael Oher, who went through things that most teens don’t go through in most movies. His home life was a very rough home life and most of the time he had no mother, she had abandoned him. As the movie goes on it shows how he was accepted into not only a family but a very wealthy family that did numerus things for him. Michael was an extremely good athlete in the movie, he loved sports and football as much as anyone. During high school, in the home life he grew up in Michael didn’t always show up to his classes and had much trouble in school. Michael had one saving grace that happen to him, that was the Tuohy family. The family took him in and adopted him. At this point in the movie he started to turn things around for himself. Not only did Michael being to make something of himself he began to love himself. He began showing up to all of his classes on time while making good grades. This movie is a strong commentary film. In this movie, it shows many different issues that are in our society that happen all around on a daily basis; foster care, poverty, racism, growing up in an unsafe environment and living with a nonexistent mother are just a few of the very tough situations that Michael went through on a daily basis.

In our world, almost everyone can be grouped as either an outsider or an insider; they may lose insider status, but one’s society makes it nearly impossible to lose outsider status. This theme is represented in Nathanial Hawthorns novel, The Scarlet Letter, as well as the articles, “The First White President,” by Ta-Nehesi Coates, and “American Schools Are Failing Nonconformist Kids, Here’s How” by Elizabeth Weil. Some may disagree with the idea that culture reinforces one’s stutus, as shown in Weil’s article’s support of the idea that society could change the struggling students state of being an outsider. In reality, one’s status is directly caused by their society, for example in The Scarlet Letter, Hester is demoted to the outside when she violates the strict Puritan doctrine, which prohibits adultery. Similarly, Coate’s article tells that his society’s support of the white supremacist leader, President Donald Trump, is a major contribution to African American’s permanent outsider status. In all, as shown in these sources, it can be seen that the zeitgeist of the people in a particular period has a profound effect on people’s classification as an insider or an outsider.

The Blind Side is a movie based on a true story about a high socioeconomic status (SES) white family that takes in a homeless African American boy. Michael Oher came from the very poor ghettos where his father vanished from his life and his mother was known to be a drug addict. He struggled to meet everyday needs such as food to eat and fresh clothes to wear. Child protection services took it upon themselves to remove him from that environment and placed him into group homes which he repeatedly ran away from. It was luck and the need for a football player with Oher’s body proportions that allowed him to enroll in a private school where he met the Tuohy kids (Netter & Hancock).