I Beat the Odds

So far Michael Oher has been living with his mother and the rest of his extensive family in the ghetto of Memphis Tennessee. Occasionally when he gets home from school his mother would be gone and his eldest brother Marcus would take it apon himself to make sure that the 12 kids all had a place to stay and eat. They would usually go over to a close friends house in these times for a place to sleep and eat. When his mother would leave she would some times take the youngest child with her.

One of the Ohers' greatest fears was the social workers, the ones that would try to split the family up, At least that's the way they saw it. What the social workers were actually working for the good of the children. Eventually the social workers caught the kids and brought them in, now they're in state custody. they got split up and moved around to different foster homes when eventually since Michael was so quiet they thought he was angry and had anger issues. So they put him in a highly secured mental hospital with other children that were also suspected of anger or depression. Fortunately for Michael he was smart enough to break out and is heading home.