Her easygoing millionaire husband Sean (Tim McGraw) is too good to be true, her cheerleader daughter Collins (Lily Collins) is pure whitebread, and Collins's kid brother, tousle-haired little tyke SJ (Jae Head), deserved some sort of mini-Oscar for being annoying. Bullock is Leigh Anne Tuohy, the formidable woman from Memphis, Tennessee, who one evening notices a big, unhappy black boy called Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), shuffling out of her son's school with ragged clothes and, apparently, no place to sleep. She takes him under her wing, into her home and into her heart. There are pre-emptive scenes coolly nipping any worries in the bud – she raises and dismisses the fear that he might steal something. A friend is icily rebuked over lunch for wondering about Michael's proximity to Leigh Anne's lovely teenage daughter ("Shame on you!"). Leigh Anne herself seeks out Michael's drug-addicted mother and, without needing to ask, secures the woman's heartfelt blessing for what she is doing: "You're a fine Christian lady!"
Soon Michael is taking to the football field and, after a wobbly start, is a natural and definite college sports scholarship material. But wait. Like all the Tuohy family, Leigh Anne loves football. Could it be that she was grooming Michael as a mouthwatering gift to her football-crazy alma mater, the University of Mississippi, a big part of her social status and the place where she undoubtedly hopes to send her own kids? And if she was, what on earth is so bad about that? Everyone wins, don't they? Aren't conservatives allowed to show compassion? Especially as Leigh Anne's compassion, unlike that of whingeing liberals, actually gets things done?
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ReplyDeleteI am not exactly sure what your paper is going to be about, the proposal doesn't really describe the paper topic.
ReplyDeleteOkay, some things you said in this proposal are offensive. You need to do a bit of research to find out how to write this paper without being offensive to anyone. What is your paper even about? You sound like you're going to write a review, not a pop-culture comparison.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what path you are taking on this paper. But I would reccommend looking into what you can and cannot say about certain people without causing hurt feelings. I had to do this with my ICWA paper.
ReplyDeleteI agree, I'm a little fuzzy on what the paper is about... What is your thesis statement?
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