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“Based on a book by journalist Michael Lewis chronicling the real life Oher’s experiences, “The Blind Side” manages to inspire despite its broad-strokes approach to characterization.”(VLM, 2010) The Blind Side is based on a true story, the story of Michael Oher, a homeless boy with a traumatic past until one women, Leigh Ann, took him in as her own son and changed his life for the better. Michael is now known as an American football player, that was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens. The film, “The Blind side”, produced by John Lee Hancock, demonstrates that a tragic childhood does not necessarily mean one is destined for defeat, as long as there are those who care enough about you. “The Blind Side” uses rhetorical appeals by illustrating ethos, logos, and pathos to teach the audience moral lessons on learning and coping with traumatic life experiences and defining oneself socially through personal actions.

According to BIneham, the Blind side is a post racial text with a white hero with tokenist narratives. It strives to share the belief that racism is in the past and anything considered racist now is in people’s heads. He also goes over how the American dream is said to provide for you if you work hard enough, no matter who you are. In general Bineham explains that this movie is set in a post racist time period, which is not what we live in. The movie persuades us the American Dream is still possible if you just work hard enough. But the undertone of the story is that he went to a predominantly white school, where they felt bad for him so they gave him a chance. As noted in the article, the white people are seen as parent figures and the main

    Working hard plays an extremely important role when attempting to achieve a goal. Hard work is demonstrated in the part of the quote where Jackson says,”...don’t stop till you get there..” This quote was said by one of the hardest workers of all time, Bo Jackson, therefore this definitely plays a key role in success.  Not only did he say this, but he meant every single word in this quote, as one

For some students the only way to succeed is to play sports professionally. College football helps students who are not very good in school succeed. "Very few college athletes go on to play professional sports. But the social networks they develop through athletics, and the team-building skills they learn on the playing field can give young athletes a head-start in the business world. Having been a team leader or a good team player in college not only prepares a student for the business world, it says volumes to potential employers about a student's readiness for the professional community"(Durham). College football helps athletes learn how to win and lose with dignity, and how to handle themselves on the field. Football player learn life lessons

In the Academy Award Winning movie The Blind Side, Michael Oher starts off as a homeless, poverty-stricken teenager. Over the course of the film, he transitions into a college-bound successful athlete. Similar to this bildungsroman story is Duong Thu Huong’s novel, Paradise of the Blind. In this narrative, the author uses this convention to highlight the main character Hang’s growth into an independent woman. Through her clear journey, Huong

Why should you read the Blind Side? The Blind side is a very emotional and inspirational book that will really make you think about your life choices. Its help teaches multiple life lessons that you might and most likely will have to face one day in all of our lives, but it’s up to us to make the right choices as Michael Oher did. So it would greatly benefit anyone to read this wonderful book.

With the promotional poster depicting a picture of a woman holding the hand of an oversized football player leading him onto the field, the movie “The Blind Side” made skeptics of moviegoers. Challenged by most energy-packed movies that hit the screens in 2009, the movie at hind sight did not do much visual stimulation. However, being a movie that faithfully represents the real life experience of famed football star Michael Oher, it did not fail to raise a lot of eyebrows from both movie fans and critics. The fact that it is a success story of an African American who did good in life despite a tragic background did much for the marketing aspect. But what spurred the most intrigue and added to the mass appeal of the movie is the fact that

The Blind Side come across like a movie about how the rich helped the poor. It just so happens that the poor is black people and the rich is white people. However, when looking at the film a little deeper, it exposes a bias idea that strengthens the notion that whites are better than blacks. First, it is made to seem as if the film deconstructs the stereotype of the two races. Mike as the representation of blacks and is made to show that he can ignore the “good for nothing” ghetto traits of youth by receiving education and becoming an athlete. Leigh Ann is depicted as an upper class white woman who adopts a black son. In this movie, it shows how White Americans like the Tuohy family accept Michael for the guy he is and what he wants to be.

People often listen to certain music because they can relate it to themselves. The Blind Side is a book about an extraordinarily generous family who take in a homeless boy named Michael. Michael is given the necessities of life and a future in football. Michael and the Tuohy’s work hard to educate Michael and prepare him to play college football. I will be relating Michael, his new brother SJ and his new mom Lee Anne to three different songs.

“The Blind Side” is an inspiring movie based on the true story of Michael Oher. The movie shows both the hard times and good times of his life and how he got to the place he is now. Michael’s story begins with him being homeless and alone. His mother was an alcoholic and his father was never there for him. He had to grow up on the streets and survive. Leigh Anne Tuohy is the woman who changes his life. She takes him into her home where she lives with her husband Sean, son S.J., and daughter Collins. The family quickly accepts him as one of their own and they adopt him. They send him to high school where he struggles with his grades and meeting friends. Michael then joins the football team and works to become their best player. This movie is

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.

Michael Oher had a struggle in tenth grade. He went through tough obstacles and distractions but still graduated. He said, "I just didn't have a lot of the resources that everybody else had. ... It was tough for me to catch up." (10) At first, Michael Oher was not in a good situation in the neighborhood that he was living in with his mother. Michael didn't have a permanent home but then the Tuohy family took him in.

Lots of successful people today did not just get to where they are today by luck. Chris Rock, a comedian said, “I wasn’t the funniest guy growing up, but I was the guy who worked on being funny the hardest”. Arthur Benjamin, a math professor also known as “America’s best Math Whiz” said “Talent is just due to the time, hours, and work that you have put into it”. These people succeed only because of their hard work.

On the surface, The Blind Side may seem like a great feel good movie, but once the movie is analyzed, it’s apparent that the movie is filled with blatant stereotypes as well as racism. The Blind Side, based off of a true story, shows the protagonist escaping poverty against all odds and growing up to be very successful with the help of a select few. Although some may argue that escaping poverty and becoming successful like Michael did is very possible this connotation of escaping poverty depicted in the movie is highly unrealistic, contributes to derogative stereotypes, and would also be very unlikely to happen in real life.