Wes Moore‚ a scholar about to attend Oxford University‚ came across an interesting article while reading the newspaper one day. The article was about another Wes Moore who had recently been sent to prison for life. Wes Moore the scholar decided to send the other man a letter which began the beginning of many encounters between the two. After learning more about each other‚ the two Wes Moores realized that had a lot more in common than just their names. The Other Wes Moore is an autobiography and
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Although Wes and the other Wes Moore both grew up in the same city at the same time‚ the two men have many differences‚ such as their mother`s involvement‚ their fathers and the level of accomplishment. First‚ Wes (the author) had compassionate and an educated mother. His mother attended university of Washington D.C and she graduated from there. She took care of him as well as sending him to private school to get good education. Second‚ Wes (The author) lived with his father. His father was educated
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I chose to do this project on was the book by Wes Moore titled “the other Wes Moore”. The reason I had chosen this is because I was able to relate to it a lot more than any of the other books in the choices that were made present to me. Wes Moore does a great job in describing how easy one can make decisions that have long term reactions in everyone’s lives. This book was not one merely to tell a good story but one to educate of the many issues that we face in America and to perhaps change the minds
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along with others turn out. An individual being raised in a single-parent home‚ in an immoral community‚ or maybe even losing someone that meant everything to them can affect their lives in ways that can either send them down the right or wrong road. Also‚ a person’s choices or decision-making skills can affect their life in a major way. “Your choices will determine your future” was always something I was told as a youth. When reading The Other Wes Moore these problems
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In The Other Wes Moore: One Name‚ Two Fates‚ written by Wes Moore‚ the two men‚ both with the same name‚ find out what their life could have been like if they had just made a few different decisions. Their names and the circumstances they grew up in made them the same‚ but the choices they each made is what granted them separate fates. Both Wes Moores did not grow up in the best circumstances. In the beginning of the book when the men were talking about their lives‚ the other Wes Moore says‚ “Your
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The book The Other Wes Moore: One Name‚ Two Fates is about two children with a similar name were conceived squares separated in the same rotting city inside a time of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Researcher‚ armed force officer‚ White House Individual‚ and business pioneer. The other is serving a lifelong incarceration in jail. Here is the account of two young men and the trip of an era. Maybe the most imperative parallel between the two Wes Moores—considerably more noteworthy than their
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lessons and inspire others. Speeches are excellent ways to teach lessons and motivate listeners since the speaker has the freedom to add emotion to their voices and also add dramatic pauses that create suspense within the crowd of onlookers. However‚ stories can lack that emotion the voice of a speaker gives it. So‚ author’s use different styles of writing such as varied sentence length for the reader to know the right pauses and imagery to create an impact on the reader’s mind. Wes Moore‚ the author of
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In The Other Wes Moore‚ the author teaches the reader when a mother holds herself accountable‚ they can positively impact their children’s futures. Joy reacts to Wes’s bad choices by taking action over Wes’s future. She takes action for Wes to ensure he does not make a “decisive and possibly irrevocable turn.” (95). When Joy speaks to Wes about attending Valley Forge Military Academy‚ he accepts the fact that his “mother made the decision to intervene- and decided that overdoing it was better than
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Absent Fathers and the Wrong Type of Neighborhood Things we have always had in our lives sometimes are taken for granted. A house‚ enough food‚ money for life’s necessities‚ and sometimes‚ worst of all‚ our families. When we have all these things given to us starting from the day we are born‚ we don’t give very much thought to it. For those without these things‚ life can be very different. American youth born in areas in which all of these aren’t relatively common are influenced to live very different
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In the novel‚ “The other Wes Moore”‚ it describes two men with the same name‚ similar backgrounds‚ and divided destinies. Coming from strikingly similar beginnings they find themselves choosing different paths in life. Wes number one becoming a successful business leader with many other respectful titles‚ and Wes number two serving a life sentence for murder. Reading these two men’s lives‚ teaches you the difference between what helps you need to succeed and what could potentially keep you from
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