We first meet Michael Oher as one of thirteen children from a mother addicted to crack; he doesn’t know his real name or how to read or write. The Tuohys, a rich, evangelical family saves him from the streets and provide him with the opportunity to attend school and take up football. The family's love and the passion Michael feels for football come together to alter him as a person. Michael becomes a priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability, his blind side. The thesis describes the major theme within the book, evolution. Michael evolves from the boy from the ghettos to a professional athlete, while in turn the game of football evolves as well. Lewis creates bias by the information in the story. Biographies can show a lot of bias because the author has the ability to pick what they want the public to know. Arguing a point in this novel is hard because it is a biography. However, Lewis puts more emphases on certain events. For instance football and life after the Tuohys is emphasised much more than Michael’s background. The chapter “The Pasta Coach” is dedicated to the recruitment of Michael Oher. It describes the way that coaches try to woo Michael because of his physical and athletic ability, and the absurd extremes the individual coaches take to get Michael to advertise and attend their school. Michael Lewis has a gift with storytelling. The Blind Side is certainly no exception. Instead of reading facts and a lifeless biography of an overpaid professional athlete Lewis makes the story of Michael Oher a story of hope, determination and inspiration. If Lewis told Michael’s story any other way the book wouldn’t be as exciting or fascinating. A weakness would be the references to football. Although for the people that understand football it’s a different look into a special part of Michael’s life, the people who just want to read about Michael Oher would find the facts slightly frustrating. This novel wouldn’t stand in well with regular professional athlete’s biographies because of the way Michael’s life is told as a story. It also wouldn’t stand well with football history books because it’s about Michael Oher and football, not football and Michael Oher.
The Blind Side is an incredible story on Michael Oher which was one of thirteen children from a mother addicted to crack, also he doesn’t know his real name or how to read or write. The Tuohy’s, a rich, divine family saves him from the streets and provide him with the opportunity to attend school and take up football. The family’s love and Michael’s passion for football had changed his life. In time in the non-fiction book Michael becomes a priceless football player with the package of size, speed and agility necessary to guard the quarterback’s greatest weakness, his blind side. The thesis in this book best describes the major theme which was evolution. Michael evolves from the boy from the ghettos to a professional football athlete; while the game of football is more impacted with evolution the book as well .The author Lewis created a bias by picking the pictures and the information of the story. Also Lewis puts more emphasis on certain events that reflect on the major theme. For instance, where Lewis focuses on football and life after the fact that Tuohy’s is emphasized more than Michael’s actual background. The main strengths of this book was how the story was presented to the reader. It held my interest because instead of reading facts and a lifeless biography of a professional athlete, Lewis made the story of Michael Oher a story of hope, determination, faith and inspiration. On the other hand, the weakness of the book was how there was a lot of unnecessary linkage to football and not the story of hope of Michael Oher. This book was mainly about Michael Oher and his story of having hope and becoming a person out of nothing, it doesn’t really need to be necessarily related to football. Compared to other sports related non-fiction books, this novel wouldn’t stand in well with professional athlete’s biographies because of the way that the story is told in this book and mainly how Michael Oher’s story in it itself. It also wouldn’t stand well with football history because the story is a biography on Michael Oher and it’s related to football, the story is not based on football.
We first meet Michael Oher as one of thirteen children from a mother addicted to crack; he doesn’t know his real name or how to read or write. The Tuohys, a rich, evangelical family saves him from the streets and provide him with the opportunity to attend school and take up football. The family's love and the passion Michael feels for football come together to alter him as a person. Michael becomes a priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability, his blind side. The thesis describes the major theme within the book, evolution. Michael evolves from the boy from the ghettos to a professional athlete, while in turn the game of football evolves as well. Lewis creates bias by the information in the story. Biographies can show a lot of bias because the author has the ability to pick what they want the public to know. Arguing a point in this novel is hard because it is a biography. However, Lewis puts more emphases on certain events. For instance football and life after the Tuohys is emphasised much more than Michael’s background. The chapter “The Pasta Coach” is dedicated to the recruitment of Michael Oher. It describes the way that coaches try to woo Michael because of his physical and athletic ability, and the absurd extremes the individual coaches take to get Michael to advertise and attend their school. Michael Lewis has a gift with storytelling. The Blind Side is certainly no exception. Instead of reading facts and a lifeless biography of an overpaid professional athlete Lewis makes the story of Michael Oher a story of hope, determination and inspiration. If Lewis told Michael’s story any other way the book wouldn’t be as exciting or fascinating. A weakness would be the references to football. Although for the people that understand football it’s a different look into a special part of Michael’s life, the people who just want to read about Michael Oher would find the facts slightly frustrating. This novel wouldn’t stand in well with regular professional athlete’s biographies because of the way Michael’s life is told as a story. It also wouldn’t stand well with football history books because it’s about Michael Oher and football, not football and Michael Oher.
ReplyDeleteThe Blind Side is an incredible story on Michael Oher which was one of thirteen children from a mother addicted to crack, also he doesn’t know his real name or how to read or write. The Tuohy’s, a rich, divine family saves him from the streets and provide him with the opportunity to attend school and take up football. The family’s love and Michael’s passion for football had changed his life. In time in the non-fiction book Michael becomes a priceless football player with the package of size, speed and agility necessary to guard the quarterback’s greatest weakness, his blind side.
ReplyDeleteThe thesis in this book best describes the major theme which was evolution. Michael evolves from the boy from the ghettos to a professional football athlete; while the game of football is more impacted with evolution the book as well .The author Lewis created a bias by picking the pictures and the information of the story. Also Lewis puts more emphasis on certain events that reflect on the major theme. For instance, where Lewis focuses on football and life after the fact that Tuohy’s is emphasized more than Michael’s actual background.
The main strengths of this book was how the story was presented to the reader. It held my interest because instead of reading facts and a lifeless biography of a professional athlete, Lewis made the story of Michael Oher a story of hope, determination, faith and inspiration. On the other hand, the weakness of the book was how there was a lot of unnecessary linkage to football and not the story of hope of Michael Oher. This book was mainly about Michael Oher and his story of having hope and becoming a person out of nothing, it doesn’t really need to be necessarily related to football.
Compared to other sports related non-fiction books, this novel wouldn’t stand in well with professional athlete’s biographies because of the way that the story is told in this book and mainly how Michael Oher’s story in it itself. It also wouldn’t stand well with football history because the story is a biography on Michael Oher and it’s related to football, the story is not based on football.