I'm reading the book The Blind Side by Michael Lewis. I have read about a quarter of the book and this part of the book is mostly introducing the point of the story. It's not about the characters in the book at all it's about a football player, his struggles, and how he overcame them. This is probably in the book to bring drama into the story and show how hard it can be to make decisions and overcome fears in the game of football.
     
       When the story really begins it's about a large African- American boy, Big Mike, who has talent in all sports but his dad left and his mom is a drug addict and he doesn't really have a home but another father is trying to get his boy into a school so he decided to try and get Big Mike into school too. The problem is that the school only contains whites, not another black went there, and it was a christian school and Big Mike was not white nor a christian. The school does end up taking Big Mike in as a student, mostly because the coach thought he would be an amazing defensive tackle for his team. The teachers didn't realize how much he didn't know book wise and after practices started the coach found out he wasn't very smart on the field either.
   
       I think Michael wrote this book because he was a football fan or player and wanted people to understand it's hard to be one. He really understood the emotions and explained them really well, especially in the first part of the book about the football player Lawrence Taylor and him ending a career of another player.

       The author wanted us to think about difficulties in life and getting through them with yourself and to listen to your heart and to not let others tell you what to do. You know what's best for you.

      I believe the best character in this book so far is the main character, Michael Oher. He is strong and dependent and shows the theme of the book really well and i'm sure leaves an impact and all readers. Michael learns to adapt to things like the school and all the new people and teachers. He learns that it's important to think of others and it will impact him later.

      "But when he came off the line it was like one whole wall was moving." (page 4) I like this quote because it's straight to the point but also gives you the best picture in your mind and really gives you an idea of what type of person Lawrence is.

       I'm wondering why they have the christian school not want non-christains to be a part of it because I know at least today that it's not really a big deal at all if you are or not they really take anybody in. In the book it was like a whole deal but i can't really tell if they were all against the fact he was black or they really thought it was bad to have a non-christian attending their school. I don't know if it's clear that that's what they mean and I'm just missing it or what.