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What is Hurt Village in The Blind Side<\/em>? How did Michael Oher go from Hurt Village to Briarcrest, and later, the NFL?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hurt Village in The Blind Side<\/em> is the difficult neighborhood in Memphis where Michael Oher grew up. Michael is able to leave Hurt Village when he gets into a school across town, and later moves in with the Tuohy family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about Hurt Village in The Blind Side<\/em> and how Michael eventually left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Michael Oher’s Childhood: Hurt Village in The Blind Side<\/em> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hurt Village in The Blind Side<\/em> was a harsh environment with close to 1,000 residents. There were no nuclear families, many adults didn\u2019t have jobs, and 75% suffered from mental illness, including drug addiction. Most of the village was under the control of Delvin Lane and his gang, the Gangster Disciples (GD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael stopped attending school for 18 months after arriving at Hurt Village, fearing the police would find him there and take him away again. He didn\u2019t realize the Department of Children\u2019s Services had already given up on placing him in a foster home. He lived a free life with no supervision or obligations, and he remembers it as being fun. Michael had few to no friends and spent a lot of time alone. His favorite pastime was shooting hoops from morning to night, what he considered to be training for his future. Michael had a dream\u2014he wanted to be the next Michael Jordan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael\u2019s dream started in 1993 after he watched the Bulls guard make the Phoenix Suns look like a high school team. He was fast and agile, and he believed he had what it took to make it to the NBA. He made a vow to be as great as Jordan one day. No one in the world thought this little boy had anything to offer the world, but he knew differently. He knew he was destined to be a rich and famous athlete. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael grew quickly and got stronger, but inside, he was still a quiet and shy boy. There were only two people that Michael hung out with: a boy his age named Craig, who also loved to play basketball, and a man 10 years older named Big Zach. Zach had been a hot high school football prospect and had what would become the quintessential left tackle body. Many people mistook Michael and Big Zach for brothers because they were so similar in shape and features. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Michael, Tom Lemming had touted Zach as one of the brightest offensive tackles in the country, and scholarship offers rolled in. But unlike Michael, Zach had a large group of friends and a girlfriend. After he returned from a visit to Florida State, where the coach had his name already stenciled on a locker, they convinced him he wasn\u2019t good enough for the NFL and that college was a waste of time. He listened and dropped out of school. Several years later, Zach regretted his decision. He didn\u2019t realize how close he\u2019d been to making it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps it was this future regret looming in his subconscious that caused Big Zach to take Michael under his wing. He took him to the basketball court and saw that Michael was good and handled the ball well for his size. People started calling Michael \u201cBig Mike,\u201d but he hated it because it didn\u2019t match the image he had in his mind. Without pictures or mirrors around, he didn\u2019t have a true understanding of how big he was getting. He wanted to be light as air and fast with cat-like reflexes, like Jordan, so that\u2019s who he believed he was<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To keep the illusion alive, Michael wore oversized clothes and shoes a size too small. He worked out, believing he was slimming down, and only played guard on the court to maximize his quickness. This delusion also kept him from realizing how strong he was becoming. He was truly shocked one day when he picked up a kid while horsing around like it was nothing. Still, he refused to be big. He was small and lithe in his mind, and his body followed his mind\u2019s commands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Father Figure for Michael<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

During this time, Michael still wasn\u2019t attending school most days, but his teachers kept moving him up a grade without concern. He was unencumbered and content, but everything changed before his 15th birthday when Big Tony found him on the basketball court at Hurt Village according to The Blind Side<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tony took Michael in and enrolled him into Westwood High School, where Tony\u2019s son, Steven, played basketball. Michael played both basketball and football at the school, but he didn\u2019t care much for football. Still, Big Tony saw how big Michael was getting and knew he could attract attention<\/a> from colleges with his size alone. After leaving Hurt Village, The Blind Side<\/em> star hoped to succeed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around this time, Tony\u2019s mother died, and he fulfilled his promise to her to take Steven across the city to get a Christian education. And if he was already driving Steven to Briarcrest, he may as well take Big Mike, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael remembers those first months at Briarcrest as days of confusion. He\u2019d never been around white people before and couldn\u2019t understand their way of life. They were all overly friendly, seemingly fragile, and careless with their possessions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steven had noticed this, too, and one day, the two boys came home with Big Tony and revealed a stash of stolen items from the boys\u2019 locker room. Tony sat Steven and Michael down and explained the ways of their new world to them. It wasn\u2019t like the hood. They had to stay out of trouble and follow the rules because once a black boy caused trouble in a white world, he\u2019d never be accepted again.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After growing up in Hurt Village, The Blind Side <\/em>shows Michael Oher’s success story<\/a>. But his struggles didn’t stop the moment he left Hurt Village. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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