A Separate Peace Analysis

As a direct result of his years at the military school, Wes graduated high school on time and continued his education. On the other hand, “Other” Wes did not graduate from high school. Rather than attempt to turn his life around, “Other” Wes turned to a life of pushing drugs and committing crimes, a lifestyle that would later result in long prison sentences for him. This is a result of him not receiving any effective disciplinary action from his mother or any other important role models in his life because rather than try to live his life according to any standard set for him early in life, he disregarded the law and those around him. Author Wes’s self-discipline, family discipline, and military discipline all resulted in him having a prosperous life starting immediately after he graduated. He eventually attended college and interned at the Baltimore city's mayor's office. While the “other” Wes had no discipline in his life which led it to spiral out of control. After trying getting back into selling drugs, “other Wes” committed a robbery with his brother Tony which went from bad to worse when it resulted in the death of a policeman who had taken up a second job as a security guard at the jewelry store Wes

The author reveals that he hung out with the wrong people which afforded him to be arrested by the police due to vandalism. Because of this incident, the author Wes was sent to Valley Forge, a military school in Philadelphia. The author claims that the author Wes had a difficult time at first and had tried to escape the school several times; but when he discovered that his mother and his grandparents sacrificed a lot just to send him there, he decided to stay and eventually became a platoon leader. However, Moore states that the other Wes got involved with the use and distribution of drugs, like his brother Tony. The author mentions that the other Wes got his girlfriend pregnant and adds that the news of early fatherhood made him frustrated. Moore states that the other Wes stopped attending school and expanded his drug selling business. The author states that the other Wes was arrested for selling drugs to a police

“Too many people have sacrificed in order for you to be there” (Moore95) Moore did not grasp regarding those phase that his mother and his grandparents sacrifice for him to go to military school. Due to his mom’s fast thinking and dedication to his success, Wes was saved from becoming involved with drugs on the streets of his neighborhood. Other Wes Moore had no significant positive role models in his life. His one brother that he looked up to for guidance, was a drug dealing hood rat himself that had no time for his little brother Wes. His mother was the only positive role model he had left to look up to, and she was too busy working to keep the family afloat financially.

Moore was a troubled kid, getting into fights, getting in trouble for graffiti, running away was sent to many different schools. He was the poor kid in a sea of rich kids (so he didn’t fit in). But he was given the opportunity to change when he was forced to go to a Military boarding school. He eventually decided that he wanted to be apart of something bigger than himself and this was it. He knew he wanted to change. When deciding how he could change he thought, “Aside from my family and friends, the men I trusted most all had something in common: they all wore the uniform of the United States of America,” (Moore pg. 132). He decided he wanted to become a Lieutenant and be someone other people could look up to. This was a major moment in Moore’s life. But Wes, on the other hand, experienced the same bad childhood and never got out of the “bad”. He never had a defining failure where he said ‘this is when I change’. He got onto a path and started making patterns with his decisions and never made the right one to get him to where he needed to be, unlike the other Wes.

During the two Wes Moore’s teenage years, they had run ins with people that turned violent. Part of how they reacted to these situations are attributed to what their peers are doing and where they live but how they overcome, or fail to overcome these obstacles helped put each of them where they are today. When Wes had a run in with Ray for sleeping with Ray’s cousin, Ray put a pretty big beating on him, but it was how Wes chose to react that put a nail in his coffin.

Wes Moore, the author of the autobiography, begins his story about his parents, and eventually the loss of his father. Which leads to his mother moving him the family to New York to help raise the children while she tries to pull her own life together. After this event, you can see the slow change in Wes Moore as he begins to skip school and commit petty crime, like tagging the neighborhood where he lived. His mother eventually fed up with this ships him to Military school in hopes it will shape him up. After a rough begging, a distinct change is seen in the author.

Facing something traumatic as losing a loved one is extremely difficult to deal with. But since he was young, he might not have understood what happened and there was nobody who could explain to him what happened. The one who helped him was his father, but he was gone. As Wes grew older, he probably got it, and that led to his poor decisions. The other Wes Moore, the one that came in and out of prison, made poor decisions also.

“I sat back, allowing Wes's words to sink in. Then I responded, "I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances"(Page 67). In "The Other Wes Moore" the environment of both Wes Moore's were completely different from each other. They both made some stupid decisions over time but who is perfect? It is expected of everyone to make some mistakes, in my opinion the main influence on their choices came from their environment. In their environment they had peers that would influence them to do things that they did not necessarily want to do. This caused them to get into trouble, but at the same token, their environment also gave them some opportunities to make it through some rough times. For Example: Wes #2

John Knowles’ novel A Separate Peace is about a few boys at a boarding school in New Hampshire. The story is centered around the friendship of two boys, Gene and Finny, at a boarding school in New Hampshire. Although in the beginning of their friendship Gene did not trust Finny, by the time he dies Gene feels as if a part of him has died, showing that he still felt closely bonded to him after all they had been through.

One reason why Wes Moore the author is successful is his family who pushed him to succeed. Wes mother always tried to set good examples for him; she wanted him to succeed in life and be educated. Wes states, "When we 're young, it sometimes seems as if the world doesn 't exist outside our city, our block, our house, our room. We make decisions based on what we see in that limited world and follow the only models available."(Wes Moore 178). This quote relates to his mother because its explaining how we do stuff based on what we see and how we are educated. When Wes was in high school he was skipping class and not paying any attention. At a time, Wes’s mother found out about his bad grades and made a big change in Wes life by sending him to military school. In the scene, Wes’s mother states “Wes you are not going anywhere until you give this place a try. I am so proud

John Knowles’ “A Separate Peace” takes place at a boarding school during World War II. Best friends Gene and Finny have been inseparable during their time at the Devon School. This is until reality hits Gene, and he slowly starts to realize that he is inferior to his best friend. Through the unbalanced friendship between two teenagers in “A Separate Peace,” Knowles illustrates that a loss of identity may be present in a relationship if there is an unequal amount of power.

he perspective presented in the book "The Other Wes Moore" was economic injustice. Both Wes Moores were somewhat poor. They both didn't live in the nicest homes and couldn't afford the nicest things. This particularly affected Wes when him, Mary, and Tony moved schools to go to a much nicer one, where kids had much nicer things. Wes' old school had a 70% drop out rate, Tony being part of that percentage. Wes saw some headphones he really liked one day. He asked the boy how he got them and the boy introduced Wes to the drug game. Selling drugs offered a way for Wes to afford the luxuries his family couldn't afford, like headphones and new nikes. Wes' poverty lead him to sell drugs and later lead him to murders and robberies. The other Wes Moore's

Wes’s family played a critical role in his life. The lack of discipline, and acceptance of Wes’s bad decisions by Mary; Wes’s mom was what lead him down the wrong path to a certain degree. In the “Other Wes Moore” Wes is faced with the struggle of not having money. Given his location and the people who surrounded him it was only a matter of time that he too took part in the distribution of drugs in order to acquire some sort of income. Wes decided to start selling drugs in his neighborhood after he saw how easy it was to get money. After time Wes’s mom Mary starts to notice that Wes is buying lots of new shoes and clothes. Wes’s explanation to his mom is that he makes the money being a DJ. Wes’s brother Tony is not sold on the Idea and explains to Mary that Wes is

The purpose of the story is to show what a person could be if they live out their full potential, and what they could end up being if they give up. The author remarks that “the chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his”, indicating that had circumstances been different for either man, their lives could have been even more similar (xi). The author is the man who lives to his full potential, eventually “receiving the Rhodes Scholarship” and working for both the White House and Wall Street (176). In contrast, the other Wes loses hope and allows himself to get caught up in the drug game, resulting in him “serving…a life sentence” in jail (174). Both men

After getting deeply involved in the drug game, the other Wes Moore attempted to better his life by enrolling in a yearlong Job Corps program. After earing high scores on his GED while training as a carpenter, he was unable to get a job afterwards. With no job, the money made on the street was too tempting, and Wes returned to the streets (Bolton). There was no defining moment that propelled the other Wes off course, but within a few years, Wes had been incarcerated for good for his role in the death of a police officer