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Michael In The Blind Side

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The movie Blind side Main protagonist is Michael Oher, a kid with a bad past. Michael got in a school that made him feel that he didn’t fit in the school he, said everything is white and felt like he didn’t fit at all . The teachers try to teach him, but they thought he couldn’t understand them . He later got adopted by the Tuohys who help him out, they gave him a place to stay and they fed him. He got on the football team and play his first game Sj, who was recording the whole thing and sent the video of him pushing this guy all the way to the bus this made people want him to get him in their college. After almost all colleges try to recruit him he had to get his grade up for a football scholarship. He had to pick a school to go to, so …show more content…

Michael is really Kind, shy, and quiet and hardworking . He is also really protective but we will talk about that later . Michael is really is shy and quiet he doesn’t talk a lot and the teacher thought at one point that he can’t even talk, but in reality he just really quiet. Michael is like a big fluffy teddy bear, he does not want to hurt anyone and is really kind to the little kids at the school when they want a push on the swings, he also doesn’t want to hurt anyone in football. Michael was going up against a smaller kid in a football kid and help him up after he knock him down to the ground . Michael is a really big guy he is big that he has a hard time to find clothes in his size, because of big size people thought that Michael is a really scary guy but he is actually really kind to people. Michael is really good at sports and is also really strong. MIchael is really strong that help him be successful in football and other sports that he might take, but he is also hard working . In school, he has help from the teacher to improve and he also looks like he really wants to improve his grade in school. Michael is also work extra hard to get a football scholarship to the college that he wants to go to . These personality traits and his character help him be successful in the movie …show more content…

Michael show some really protective things in the movie one of them was when Michael said to his adopted mom that he got her back in this dangerous neighbor. Another scene where he shows how protective he is, when he protected his little brother from a car crash with his arm, because of that his little brother didn’t get any serious injury from the car crash. He also use the his protective instinct in his football game, Michael think of the team like his family because Michael will always protect his family. I think this is one scene is the most important because it show how protective Michael is, when Michael went back to his old neighbor and was invited into a house, where there was some people who was threatening him and his family and how they were going to hurt his family. When they said that Michael became very angry that they were going to hurt his family, he started fighting them because of that. I think this Michael greatest feature because how good he is at it . One personality that I think that I have is that I’m nice, kind, and hardworking. I demonstrate this at school and how hard I work in my classes. I work really hard in my classes to get all As in my class. I don’t know how i demonstrate being kind in my real life but I think I can think of something one thing I can think of is when I help some

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