The Other Wes Moore's The Other Wes Moore

In The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, two boys grew up in similar neighborhoods, both spent time on street corners with their crews, and both ran into trouble with the police, but one Wes Moore became a successful business leader while the other Wes Moore became a convicted felon. A single change made in someone's life can leave him or her with an entirely different outcome. Society has a huge impact on the development of characters throughout the novel. The theme in The Other Wes Moore, when a person is trapped in life by limiting social and economic factors, his or her attitudes and decisions will determine the outcome of life, is conveyed throughout the book through character development.
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Throughout the book, the Other Wes Moore faces multiple experiences that shape him, revealing his character. The lack of influence from his family along with the struggle for motivation, left him to act upon his own judgement. Although sharing a name with the author, as well as experiencing similar surroundings, the Other Wes Moore was led towards a much different outcome, with the ghetto having large impact. The neglect from those who should have been supporting him provoked trouble, regarding school, family, and social behavior. The arrival of Tony and their father only showed him how it felt to be capable of this lifestyle, how easily he could succeed selling drugs. Wes was going downhill, rapidly. Ultimately, the Other Wes Moore saw the impact that drugs had on his loved ones and decided to get help. After graduating from Job Corps, he got his life together and returned to the ghettos of Baltimore. Needing money to support his children, the Other Wes Moore relied back to dealing drugs. The ghetto didn’t allow for people like the Other Wes Moore to succeed, it was always a vicious circle that came back to drugs. His brother tried desperately to protect him and keep him out of trouble and away from his own mistakes. The money he earned dealing drugs was never enough. To compensate, he attempted to rob a jewelry store with Tony, which resulted with both of them in jail for life and the
The persecution of the New York and Baltimore ghettos had the same effect on the both Wes Moores as the Nazi ghettos did on the Jews. Throughout the world, religious persecution has been present. During World War II, the Jews were persecuted under Hitler’s rule. The rights that other citizens were allowed to exercise were denied for Jews. Jews were removed from their homes and forced into concentration camps. The Jews were looked at as inferior in Nazi Germany for years because of their religion. Throughout the book, the reader can infer that the ghettos played a huge role in the future of the individual. In both situations there were restrictions that denied people of having prosperous outcomes in life. Although the persecution present in The Other Wes Moore was not as cruel as the persecution in Nazi Germany, both Jews and blacks were treated unreasonably because of their race or