Title Significance

"So many people have tried to tell my story so many different ways, so it's kind of fun to be able to tell it how it really happened through my eyes. That's why I named it that", Tebow said recently in the Denver Post. The literal meaning of the title of Tim Tebow's memoir, Through My Eyes is simple and straightforward. throughout Tim Tebow's career, writers and journalists have attempted ot portray Tim's story. So in his memoir Tim tells his story in his way, his words, and through his eyes. The Denver Post website quoted Tim Tebow when he said, "Thank the Lord I don't have to live with the roller coaster that you all make out of my life." This quote means that other people have fabricated Tim Tebow's life so much so that Tim Tebow can't even imagine himself living in something that is supposed to be his life. Everyone has a different opinion about Tim Tebow, but the one that is most important, efficient, and accurate is his opinion. The front and back flaps of the memoir hold the true literal meaning of the title, "Through My Eyes" when co author Nathan Whitaker says, "At every step Tebow's life has defied convention and expectation. While parts of his life have been well documented, these stories have always been filtered through the opinions and words of others. With this book he offers a first hand, never-before-told account of how it all really happened on the field, behind the scenes and through his eyes."

There is some figurative language used through this title. The irony behind the title is that the story is told through first person as almost all memoirs are, but I do not think that this irony was intended or not. The firuarative meaning of Through My Eyes is very similar to the literal meaning. The figurative meaning of the memoir is that people all across the globe have heard Tim Tebow's story from someone else's view, through someone else's eyes, but now in this memoir you get the real thing. A lot of people might look at a superstar quarterback like Tim Tebow and assume that it's an easy life and that it was an easy path to get to the point that he is at now. There is more to Tim Tebow than what most people see. Tim Tebow lives out  the life that he puts forward on television and in the media. People see Tim Tebow on commercials and on T.V. winning the Heisman and they may see glitz and glamour but they don't know what goes on in Tim's head. They do not see what goes on behind the scenes; they don't see Tim praying every day and night or Tim working out five days a week doing some of the most vigorating workouts known to man! The figurative meaning of Through My Eyes is that there is much more to Tim Tebow than what we see on television and on the football field. There is a lot that we don't see and maybe, just maybe it is better that we no longer keep Tim Tebow's secret life as a secret so that his "haters" and critcs will have nothing to hate and criticize.