In the publication, “The Other Wes Moore,” the author describes how many different situations affect two boys, the author, Wes Moore, and the felon by the same name. They both had been in a similar situation: They were both in a poor neighborhood, surrounded by drugs, crime, guns, and a lack of education. Even though they both had a similar life, the felon had gone down a path he shouldn’t have gone on, while the other became a successful author! This seems a bit odd, right? They both had very similar lives, but they didn’t end up the same. Maybe digging a little deeper into this problem would help us understand why what happened, happened!…
After reading the story twice I was able to understand how the first sentence of the story encompasses the story as a whole. The first sentence refers to how the narrator perceives adults as people who are constantly changing things with complete disregard to kids and their feelings. In my opinion, the author’s intent is to share the narrator’s strong opinion towards adults and towards her own personal feelings about herself and her beliefs. The narrator has a very strong spirit about her which becomes apparent very quickly, and is present throughout the entire story. The story begins with Hazel (the narrator) explaining one of the characters has decided to change his name back to his original name because he wants to get married.…
“The Unknown Citizen” and “Warren Pryor” are similar in that they both make sacrifices. “The Unknown Citizen” is about a man who sacrifices everything to fit in and “Warren Pryor” is about a man who sacrifices his happiness for his family. When people make too many sacrifices, they lose their individuality and turn into a statistic.…
In The Other Wes Moore, by Wes Moore, both characters faced adversity as they grew up in impoverished communities. Although similar negative influences and cultures surrounded both Wes Moores, they grew up to live two completely different lives, one escaping the cycle of violence and the drug cartel, and the other falling into the center of the action.…
Similar to the author Wes Moore, the other Wes Moore also grew up in a home without a father, although the other Wes had never actually met his biological father. The other Wes Moore’s mother, Mary, took care of him and his brother Tony, who was older and happened to be involved heavily in the drug game. Tony was very protective over Wes and always tried to make sure that Wes didn’t get involved in the drug game as well, but Wes always found this to be hypocritical. One of the first few glimpses that the readers get into the other Wes Moore’s childhood was of him seeing his mother cry. The other Wes’s mother had been enrolled at Johns Hopkins University, but due to the budgets for Pell Grants eventually being cut, she lost her funding and was unable to afford getting an education anymore. This caused the other Wes Moore’s mother to take the family to his grandmas’ house, where he met his drunken father for the first…
All in all the differences in these two families show how family roles have changed over a period of time. It also shows how technology has had a great impact on the world today, and is rapidly taking away from face to face conversations. In other words its an outlook on how much society has changed in a short period of time to go from a conservative outlook to and independent…
In the book The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, two people by the name of Wes Moore turned out to have different fates. One became a Rhodes Scholar while the other became a convicted murderer who's going to spend the rest of his life in prison. How did one become more traditionally successful than the other? One can say that it's because of how their mothers guided them and the environment they grew up around.…
The other Wes Moore is about two young black men who grew up in the same area and they had similar experiences and environmental influences, but they ultimately ended up on different life paths.…
Personal responsibility is portrayed throughout the whole book in both of the Wes’s moms. These two women took full responsibility for themselves and their children. They had kids in the declining economy for african americans during the 80’s. Both being place with their families in difficult situations. Giving the fact that both dad’s were out of the picture, after one dies and the other one is a deadbeat, they do there best to raise there children. They get multiple jobs to provide a home and food to their family. The lack of personal responsibility is also show in many ways throughout the story. At one point in the story Wes, the successful one, is caught tagging a bridge with is friend Shea and is very upset with himself and seems like he wont do it again, but he says he ends up in jail the next week. This leads to Wes ending up in a Military school which turns out to be great for him but at the time he was very against it.…
In The Other Wes Moore two boys shared the same name, lived in single parent homes, lost their fathers and only lived a few blocks away from each other in Baltimore. Despite these similarities, they made very different choices, which impacted their life outcomes. The choices made by Wes 1 and Wes 2in the book The Other Wes Moore impacted their life outcomes. Wes 1 and Wes 2 made many similar choices such as selling drugs, slacking in school and being involved in criminal activity. The major difference between them was the time of their turning point. Wes 1 realized much later, but it wasn’t until after one of his choices resulted in a life sentencing in prison. Wes 2 realized when his mother sent him to a military school to try and get him in the right direction. This was very hard for Wes 2 he did all he could to leave until he made the decision to stay in which benefited him in the long run.…
Staring at the cover of The Other Wes Moore during my Advising and Registration Day in the spring, I honestly was not prepared to already have a summer assignment, especially since I should have been enjoying the summer before the real world started. My initial reactions to the book were like any other teenager. I judged this book by its cover and came to the realization that the only way I would open this book was by my own destiny. I had to make the decision to do the assignment and I knew I was fully responsible for this action.…
There are many issues that have led to the outcome in your life, from an absent father, instability in your living situations, your brother being influential, yet participating in negative activity, and your mother’s lack of involvement. When you sum all of these issues up the main issue that stands out is the lack of support and mentoring that is needed to foster a child’s development positively in a social environment.…
As I have already stated numerous times, and I am sure that you are tired of hearing, The Other Wes Moore is a story of great emotion, about two children with the same name and very similar lifestyles, growing up, but ending up in two completely different places with their lives. The story tells of Wes Moore, the author, facing poverty and his ambition to receive a proper education, and Wes Moore, a man convicted of murder in the first-degree and sentenced to a life in prison. How could these two boys have grown up so similarly, but one went on to be very successful, and the other a convict?…
For instance, when Andrew asked some older woman why they were in here they explained, “Because we don’t want to burden our family by taking care of us, this is their life now, we already lived ours.” I loved that quote because it showed how much they loved their family and that they chose to live in these homes so that their children can take care of their own families and lives. This was explained in the book as guilt, that the older adults felt as if they were imposing on other people’s lives and felt guilty when loved ones took care of them.…
Throughout the novel, McEwan continuously demonstrates the idea that the female protagonist, Julie, exerts more maturity than the narrator, Jack, in order to portray the idea that the matriarchal figure is of higher importance within society; “it really means Julie will have to be in charge”. The fact that it seems unavoidable that Julie will attain the role as the figure head of the family enhances the idea that her maturity puts her priority to manage the family. Contextually, McEwans focus on reiterating this importance can be seen to have been influenced by his upbringing. As a child whose father was in the army, McEwans mother, therefore, was his apparent father figure. We can see this mirrored with his character Julie as when her father dies of a heart attack and her mother is absent, Julie fills in the gap of her siblings’ parents and takes over the parental roles.…