Like I said before I read both the Blind Side and I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness to the Blind Side and Beyond. Both of these books centered around Michael Oher.
The Blind Side was more about football and the development of the left tackle position. It also obviously talked about Michael's story from birth to the beginning of college. It was pretty interesting to read. I cared more about his story then the development of the position. I understand enough about football to watch it, but not quite enough to read about the different positions and to know what they are talking about. Since I LOVE the movie I did enjoy reading the book and seeing what really happened. Some of the things in the movie were switched around or not really explained enough so I enjoyed seeing that side of the story.
I Beat the Odds was from Michael's perspective. I liked this book much better. It told his life story from his point of view. He also said that he wrote it so that people who are in his position either living in bad parts of town, being in foster care, etc. can see what he did and use his experiences to leave that cycle of poverty and do what they love. This was very interesting to get the whole story of his life and exactly what happened. It was also very inspiring. When I get a little older I would consider being a foster parent or working for some other type of organization to help disadvantaged youth.
I've grown up knowing about foster care/adoption with my mom having a social work background and spending a decent amount of time while I was growing up as a social worker. I always knew that there were kids who didn't have families and were shuffled around from foster home to foster home, but I never thought about what this was like for the kids. Seeing this perspective really made me think more about this.
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