The Blind Side by Michael Lewis (Pages 103-196)

SUMMARY:
From pages 103-196, it was about how Michael Oher have changed since the beginning of the story. Michael had spend 4 months at the Briarcest Christian School Saints and the season of 2004 was starting. He went from being nothing into being almost what all colleges want on their football team. Michael Oher had been receiving mails and packages from colleges telling him to visit their school and he also received a letter containing a full scholarship. He went to LSU, Ole Miss, North Carolina State, and University of Oklahoma fir a summer elite football program. Michael turned down about 50 other programs. He still had time to choose which college team he wants to play for, but he is leaning towards Oklahoma.
Time has passed and Michael Oher became a member of the Tuohy family. He got closed to Sean Jr. and he now calls Leigh Anne "Mama". Sean and Leigh Anne pretty much gives Michael whatever he needs because they no he won't ask for anything he doesn't need. Michael wants to get his drivers license but he needed some form of I.D. but they didn't have any. Leigh Anne was begging the person to give him another I.D. but when the person checked, the named "Michael Oher" wasn't in the computer data. The man said "Michael Jerome Oher" isn't a person, so he tried other ways of spelling and found a "Michael Oher Williams", and Michael said that was him. The man told Leigh Anne and Michael that 6 Social Security Card had been issues, and Leigh Anne insist that Michael had nothing to do with it and explain his pass to him and he finally gave them a new card. They also needed a birth certificate so Leigh Anne made Michael go visit his mom and ask for it. He came bak with a crumbled piece of trash-like paper and that was his birth certificate. Leigh found out that Michael's birthday was May 26th but he told her it was May 28th and he said the people probably got it wrong. Leigh Anne said they can't get his birth certificate wrong but Michael was sticking to his belief.
Michael gothis license and he's been praticing his football skills, but he still didn't know how to communicate with the team. He once tackled and dragged this dude of the field because he was talking to much trash. When Sean asked him where he was dragging the dude to, Michael said to the bus so he can go home because he's talking to much trash so going home is what they both needed to do. Michael visitied LSU and thought about joining the football teambut then he went to visit Ole Miss and he decided to go there. That's where the whole family move to.
QUOTES:
"He had never thought of himself as a football player, and didn't have the first idea what the fuss was all about"(Lewis 103).
"There's no such person as Michael Jerome Oher"(Lewis 140).
"You've been issued six Social Security cards in the last eighteen month"(Lewis 141).
REACTION:
When I first start reading this book, I wouldn't have thought a person could have gotten a new chance of life like Michael Oher did. From pages 103-196, Michael Oher started from not having any sort of I.D. or Social Security card into having his own identity again. Michael Oher didn't expect himself to become a football player, he didn't know why the colleges are trying to get him to be on their college football team. He doesn't care about his mother because they were never close, when he went to his mother to get his birth certificate, his mom told him to give him a hug but Michael just stood there and le his mom hug him instead. Michael himself, didn't even know his real birthday until he got the birth certificate back, that shows how he doesn't even know himself. Leigh Anne is trying and getting to know Michael more every day. When Michael went to get his Social Security card, he wasn't even a "real person" because his last name isn't Oher, Williams was his dad's last name. No one knew who he was until now, when the Tuohy family "adopted" him, now he have the chance to go to college and maybe in the future play in pro-football.
I hope later on in the book, the author talks about if Michael Oher can take down Lawrence Taylor because no one seem to have gone pass Taylor's defense/offense.
Ican't wait to watch the movie after finish reading this book because I heard the movie was really goodand inspirational.