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The Blind Side Research Paper

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“Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter”(Michael Oher). Michael Oher is a very famous football player that came from a very rough background. With the help of the Tuohy family and hard work he made his life better. The movie The Blind Side tells the incredible story of Michael Oher and how the Tuohy family takes a man out of a really bad background and change him into role model for many other people that were in his situation. The Movie hits some huge similarities and also some major differences from the real story. In the movie The Blind Side, the director, John Lee Hancock, based the movie off of Michael Oher’s life. He chose events that are identical to the real story. He also made some choices that are different from what actually happened. For example, a similarity between the movie and real life is when Michael’s father died. In the real story Michael's father was killed on an overpass. According to Michael Lewis, “Michael Oher's birth father was murdered. He was shot and killed, then thrown off an overpass on the west side of Memphis”. In addition, Michael’s mother was horribly addicted to cocaine. …show more content…

According to Michael Lewis, “In reality, it took months after the roadside encounter before the Tuohy family welcomed Michael into their home. For months, Michael actually continued staying with Tony Henderson (aka Big Tony)”. Another example is Michael having eleven other siblings. His mom was a drug addict and had multiple baby daddies. According to Michael Lewis, “He was one of twelve kids growing up in a broken home in Hurt Village, a housing project located in crime ridden North Memphis”. Throughout The Bindside and Michael Oher’s life, there are many similarities between the

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