Chapter 9 Turning Your Life Arond
In chapter 9, we meet Robert, Billy's son. Billy's son is much like Michael Oher from the movie The Blindside. Robert is the person described as "a boy who flunked out of high school, who had been an alchoholic at sixteen, who had run with a rotten bunch of kids... he is all straightened out now." He is now in the military and has a purple heart and a silver and bronze star. Even though at one point in his life he was in a bad situation, he has turned his life around.
Robert, Billy's son, is similar to Michael Oher in The Blindside. Before Michael was taken in by the Touhy family, Michael was stuck in the wrong group of people. He was hanging out with the kind of people who all they cared about was drinking and doing drugs. He was able to break away from that group of people. Just as Robert was able to break away from his notorious group of friends. Now that Michael has broke away from his group of friends, he is playing football at the college of Ole Miss. He has completely turned his life around, just as Robert, Billy's son, did in Slaughterhouse-five.
In chapter 9, we meet Robert, Billy's son. Billy's son is much like Michael Oher from the movie The Blindside. Robert is the person described as "a boy who flunked out of high school, who had been an alchoholic at sixteen, who had run with a rotten bunch of kids... he is all straightened out now." He is now in the military and has a purple heart and a silver and bronze star. Even though at one point in his life he was in a bad situation, he has turned his life around.
Robert, Billy's son, is similar to Michael Oher in The Blindside. Before Michael was taken in by the Touhy family, Michael was stuck in the wrong group of people. He was hanging out with the kind of people who all they cared about was drinking and doing drugs. He was able to break away from that group of people. Just as Robert was able to break away from his notorious group of friends. Now that Michael has broke away from his group of friends, he is playing football at the college of Ole Miss. He has completely turned his life around, just as Robert, Billy's son, did in Slaughterhouse-five.
I like the connection you made between Robert and Michael. I think it is a perfect, modern day transformation that describes perfectly of the complete make-over that both Robert and Michael made. Also I believe that by using "The Blindside", you showed that this kind of transformation was not just then, but is still present in our world today.
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