Family In The Blind Side

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Family, in almost every individual’s life plays a quintessential roll in ones physical and emotional growth, as well is responsible for being a guiding force for in every member of the family . This is exactly the case in both Nick Hornby’s novel About a Boy, and John Lee Hancock’s biographical film, The Blind Side. In both The Blind Side and About a Boy mirroring stories are told in which a boy is taken in raised by a family and made into socially acceptable people, despite the outcomes of the children being taken in being different.. Furthermore,In both stories families take the responsibility in making Michael from The Blind Side, and Marcus From About A Boysocially accepted and successful people, and their family as a resource to find out what their strong-suite is, and use that as way to fit into society. Furthermore, The families in both are able to improve upon themselves with help to the boy they take in. Despite stark similarities between both stories, the ways in which both families …show more content…

The Children, Marcus and Michael, both gain significant support from these families which allows for themselves to develop as a person. Furthermore, it allows for the family to develop along with the Child despite the means at which the family provide the support being different. The amount the family, as well as the boy learn about themselves teaches people the importance of acceptance and kindness. As in both stories the families show an significant amount of care and kindness towards the child they take in, and in turn benefit the child enormously. However, they also manage to benefit along the way. This teaches people the impact being kind, and accepting towards someone can have, and the importance in doing so. As had the families not taken them in, most likely the child would have never succeeded, but they’re lives would be significantly worse off as