The book,
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, features Michael Oher as the main character. To most people, he was a big and dumb person, and that was true. He had barely moved from grade to grade, with teachers barely giving him a passing grade. He had been in 11 different schools, and had repeated 1st grade. When others would 1st meet Michael, he would be quiet and shy. For example, he was barely audible when he had to talk to the NCAA people about his college eligibility. However, as the books moves on and Michael becomes better acquainted with people such as the Tuhoy family, he interacts with the Tuhoy's children like they were his siblings from their births. Michael was also initially dumb. Going into his senior year of high school, according to the book, Michael had a 1.56 GPA and was 161st in his class of 161. By the time Michael would graduate, he would have a 2.05 GPA, and was now 154th out of 157 in his class. Michael's development as a complex character impacts
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game's theme, which is "Don't judge a book by its cover", or don't judge someone because of how they look and the stereotypes associated with those traits. Michael is the reason for this theme, and can only enhance the theme of this great book.
The article below is a review of the book from "The Washington Post". They give some background information about the people involved in the book, whether it be Michael Lewis, the author, or the actual characters themselves. The review of
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game is a fair and honest review and gives a general summary of the book.
The Blind Side Review
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Hey Jacob I like how explained how Michael develops into a complex character over the course of the book! One part of your post that I did not fully understand what that the improvement Michael went through in the book seems kind small, I would expect this book to show Michael having a huge improvement? p.s. our video on the post is messed up!
ReplyDeleteHey great post. You did a way better job than me on the summary. This is one of my favorite books and movies.
ReplyDeleteI've seen this movie and it was a great one, and the way that you are describing the book makes me want to read this book even more. I really like how you describe how Michael's character develops over the book.
ReplyDeleteI too saw the movie and loved it. I also like how you added statistics in you post, it literally shows how the characters developed.
ReplyDeleteI really like how you showed Michael changing by using statistics from the novel. Also, I like how specifically you described Michael at the beginning of your post which helped my understand your post better.
ReplyDeleteHey Jacob, I thought you really did a good job on this post. I liked how you managed to use the old saying, "Don't judge a book by its cover" and connect it to the theme of this book.
ReplyDeleteNice job on this post Jacob. The way that you explain the way that Michael is not one of the perfect characters, and that he has troubles makes me want to read this book.
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