Book Report On The Other Wes Moore

The Other Wes Moore is a book about two young African-American lives that share the same name, Wes Moore. Both Wes Moores grew up with similarities, they both grew up in the same hometown. One of the Wes Moore is free and the other one is spending his life in jail. They both grew up without fathers. The author's father died in front of him when he was just three years old and the other Wes Moore barley knew his dad. The Author's father wasn’t there because he couldn’t be, and the other Wes Moore, father wasn’t there because he chose not to be. Both mothers were working hard towards setting their families and to support and care for their sons.

The Other Wes Moore is an autobiographical novel that is told from the heart of author, Wes Moore, while showing an illustrative purpose. One section of his book, in the epilogue, shows Moore diving into a more personal note on the roller coaster of a life he has lived, thus far. He uses his tone and diction to reflect on how the environment people grow up in can influence the ways they act and to explain that the people closest to you can change the opportunities you may have later in life, while using imagery and parallelism to show that no matter who you are or what background you come from, it can’t restrict or confine you from doing extraordinary things.

“The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore is about two boys with the same name. They both grow up in the same neighborhood and with the same family situation. One Wes Moore’s father died and the other Wes Moore’s father left when he was a young boy. Both boys had mothers who had multiple jobs to support the family. One Wes Moore got into drugs while the other went to military school.

In The Other Wes Moore, author Wes Moore tells the story of his life as well as the life of a man with the same name. The book published in 2010 to highlight significant moments in both of their lives. The book was overall amazing and I recommend it to anyone who likes books about making a change in one’s life. The novel captures the audience attention, has a great overall purpose, and is relatable to anyone who has overcome obstacles and has reached success.

Decisive choices that we make represent our positions in our lives today. As a young individual the first people we come in with contact is family. Family influences young generation’s actions and behavior towards society. ‘The Other Wes Moore’ by Wes Moore, tells a story about two boys with similar names, similar backgrounds, growing up in similar neighborhood. However, the decisions that they make lead them to different pathways. The author, Wes Moore, ends up as a graduate of John Hopkins University, a White House fellow, an army officer and the co-author of the book. The other Wes Moore ends up as a thief, drug dealer. They were not destined to end up where they stand today, but the choices that they made brought them where they stand today

The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore is about two men named Wes Moore that so happened to grow up in the same troubling city, Baltimore. Wes Moore the author tells the story about both him and the other Wes Moore’s life. Wes Moore in his book wants to give young people a sense of guidance that they may or may not have had by writing about how young people are the minds behind their own path or destiny, and how young people shouldn’t let where their from define what you’ll become. Wes the author went on to become a Rhode scholar despite growing up in a rough neighborhood. Although the author Wes had done things in the past that could’ve possibly have him ending up in prison just like the other Wes, but he didn’t let the past

“The Other Wes Moore” is written by Wes Moore himself. In the book “The other Wes Moore” there is two black African American boys who share the same name but, ended up in different paths in life. Both boys have absent fathers for their various reason and with mothers being the head of the household. The purpose of the story is to illustrate how nurture is responsible for a individual success. Author Wes Moore uses parallel plot structure, flashbacks, and diction to prove that nurture determines an individual success.

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Throughout a child’s life, they encounter several challenges that require them to make a choice. These decisions, which can affect them throughout their lives, can be impacted by various things such as school, friends, and familial presence. This concept is discussed in The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore. Through both structural disadvantages and personal choices, these challenges had a significant impact on both main characters, the author Wes and the convict Wes.

The novel, “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, by Westley Moore, is about the lives of two men with similar names, neighborhoods, and growing up in the wrong direction. Westley struggle with academics and behavior; so he was sent to Valley Forge Military School. He ends up as an army officer, a graduate of John Hopkins University, and a White House fellow. Wes struggle financially, which led him to sell drugs, a thief, and a convicted killer. The choice that they make determines the encounters that they deal with. The important factors that caused Westley to become successful in life while Wes ended up in prison for life are support of the mother, military school, and opportunities. Readers should care about this topic because,

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates By Wes Moore All across America, inner city youth are vulnerable to dangers of illegal drugs, gangs, teen pregnancy, guns, and robbery. However, it is possible to overcome these challenges through proper decision making skills, just as author Wes Moore, a decorated veteran and leader, did. Yet several youth take the dangerous route, just as the other Wes Moore did. The lives of these two men, both named Wes Moore, are portrayed in The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates.

The novel The Other Wes Moore, written by Wes Moore, is about two boys with the same name who could have had the same fate. The author Wes Moore was born in Baltimore and raised in a single mother home with no male guidance. The Other Wes Moore was also born in Baltimore into the same single mother situation. A few people who effected the life of the author were his mother Mary, his grandparents, and his sisters Nikki and Shani. They all had an impact on his life, which lead him to his future of success. For the other Wes the only person who had a powerful impact on his life was his brother, Tony. Throughout Wes’s life Tony urged him to avert the drug business, but Wes failed to by following his actions rather than his words. The overall message of The Other Wes Moore is your actions effect your future.

Behind every successful individual is a positive role model. Role models play an important role in a person’s life. Without someone to look up to, an individual will often find themselves lost. Role models shape a person into who they become. In the book The Other Wes Moore One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore, the true story of two men with the same name, similar backgrounds, and similar situations is told. The author of the book happens to be one of them, Wes Moore. He grew up in Baltimore and lived with his mother Joy, father, and two sisters Nikki and Shani. His father was in his life for only a short period of time due to the fact that he died from a rare virus. His mother always disciplined him very well and made sure he was on the right path. The author Wes Moore was a good kid while he was young but as he got older he started to get exposed to drugs and violence which led him to fall off for a bit. However his mother never gave up on him. She sacrificed all she could to make sure he was going to be on the right path throughout his life. She even went to the extent of sending him to military school.

Parents are the kid’s first teacher. Through their direct interactions or the example they set as a role models, they highly influence all their kids’ development stages from infancy to adulthood. However, parenting is not an easy duty. It is, actually, challenging and can even be overwhelming for single parenting, especially for those in certain disadvantaged social and economic life conditions, like Joy and Mary, the mother of the two Wes Moore, in the book “The other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”. Both Joy and Mary were struggling to raise their kids alone in a challenging social environment. Even though the two mothers seem to have many similarities in some ways like their social class and ethnic group, their life conditions, and their

The tragedy of the final chapters of The Other Wes Moore is that while the reader already knows the fate of Other Wes, we still hope that the jury comes back with a different verdict. Usually at the end of a book I am left feeling satisfied, accomplished even, but at the end of The Other Wes Moore I am left with questions, a feeling of hopelessness, and despair.