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The book, Honor and the American Dream: Culture and Identity in a Chicano Community, and the film, Salt of the Earth, both relay to their audience, the pursuit of happiness within the Chicano community in which they live. These works aim to show how Mexican-American immigrants fight to keep both their honor and value systems alive in the United States of America, a country which is foreign to their traditions. The Mexican-Americans encountered in these works fight for their culture of honor in order to define themselves in their new homeland, a homeland which honors the American dream of successful capitalism.

Both Weses had several circumstances in common that happened early on in their lives. Moore narrates that he lost his father at a young age due to a medical misdiagnosis. The author says that with the loss of his father, his family had to move to the Bronx to live with his grandparents. The author Wes was the second of three children, and with the absence of his father, his mother Joy had to work multiple jobs to send him and his siblings to school. Moore adds that he was enrolled in a private school but skipped his classes often and was put on academic probation. On the other hand, the

The book I read was 13 Minutes. It was written by Sarah Pinborough. It was 343 pages long.

It was a little different with the other Wes. This Wes' mom, Mary, smoked weed and hadn't seen Wes' father since his birth. One story includes the

The book is about how unwed fathers are seen as a leading social problem, but goes on to explain the flaws that occur after pregnancy that lead to the end of the couple’s romance. The book looks at the bond between the father and child rather than that between the parents. The book also goes through how changes economically and culturally for the urban poor as well as the obstacles they must overcome has changed fatherhood.

In the reading it talks about the mother's thoughts about his schooling choices in New York. Most people would say if they went through it, it's okay for their kids. However Joy stepped up and knew that the New York public schools were extremely sketchy and unsafe for her son and rather work harder and have her kids go to a private school. His mother also would not let the sadness of their father's death interrupt the time she had them. She would put on a happy face and encourage her kids to take advantage of all the opportunities there are out there. In the reading it shows Wes Moore’s realization of the amount of effort his mother put in to make the family happy,“But no matter how much the world around us seemed ready to crumble, my mother was determined to see us though it.(47)”

In conclusion, Wes had been in a lot of trouble in his life. Between shooting a guy. Getting a girl pregnant at age fourteen. He also didn’t have people in his life that showed him between right and wrong. Wes’s attitude has been laid back in majority. But he can have a short temper at some

In the novel The Other Wes Moore, both men were heavily influenced by extrinsic influences as they shaped the courses of their respective lives ultimately deciding their fate. The destinies of the Wes Moores sprung from the ways of how they lost their fathers, the roles of their siblings, and the response of their mothers to their behaviors. The novel shows just how the boys’ lives are altered by all of the external factors in their respective environments. For Wes, the author would grow up having a mother who relentlessly worked at making sure her son had lived a positive life and his own goals at pleasing her and maintaining his connections and relationships with the ones he cared for. For the other Wes Moore, the absence of his mother

When author Wes started to slack in school his mother sent him to military school. One of the other hand, when the other Wes used drugs and alcohol with his friends his mother did not punish him. Instead, she thought the whole incident was funny and said, “Well, at least now you know how bad it feels and you will stay away from drinking” (62). I think that the author did a fantastic job at accomplishing this aim because as the story unfolds, the reader can see the how the important figures in these two boys lives influenced them to be who they are

Taking back mysterious as it may be in thought Moore the author was reflecting, some of us can relate to that time he was growing up among our own peers with pressure from our streets and classmates in rooms of education if any for some in those urban neighborhoods. With a family of five including mother, father and two other sister’s one named Nikki who is the oldest and then there’s Shani the baby girl. Wow Moore just reflecting first on starting out as a boy child having a father figure in the black community actually isn’t a give me unfortunate when thinking of the other Wes. Though short as it may have been for Moore with his father sudden death, there were his grandparents with grandfather being a man of the

Wes Moore explain his life events and how he over came all the obstacles. He was a man who grew up just seeing his father twice, and he saw him at four an seeing him die in his face. That when him and his family move to New York, and his attitude change toward life and his family. So his mother sent his to military school and then he went to finish college. Then, a tragic thing happen near the place he was brought up, a police officer with five kids was off duty and he was shot three times. The police officer died on site and it was a national 12 day man hunt. The killers was found and one of their names was Wes Moore, and the Wes Moore that went to college wanted to learn more about him. So, he found out that him and the other Wes Moore had

In this chapter, events occurred that negatively impacted the author and the other Wes Moore. In the first chapter, the author watched his father die, a memory that he remembered in vivid detail through adulthood. The other Wes Moore met his father for the first time. He was an unreliable alcoholic who didn't want to play a role in his son's life. The quote "While I knew something had happened, I still wasn't sure what it all meant" (Moore 15) relates to both boys. The author watched his life change with the death of his father but didn't even know what people meant when they told him his father had "passed on." The other Wes Moore witnessed his mother cry because she knew she'd never be able to finish school, a life-long dream of her's, but didn't fully understand the situation at his young age. The excerpt displays how naive they

In life a little mistake can have a big impact the rest of your life that is why it is important for parents to encourage their kids to make good decision to help them in the future. The Wes Moore's are two men with the same name with very similar but different lives. I think that the Wes Moore's had different lives because they were raised completely different One of the Wes Moore's had a father and a mother and both parents who were college graduates while the other Wes Moore never knew his dad and his mother was too busy to pay attention to him so we did whatever he wanted to do he did not have an example set for him not even his older brother was much help. For example, the author state that: "Wes sighed into the phone. He had heard it

"...What impact did your father not being there have on your childhood?"(The "Other" Wes Moore -Part I: Fathers and Angels - pg. 4) This question is what connected me to the novel. The "author" Wes began the story of his and the "other " Wes's memories of their fathers. This explains how and why they grew up fatherless. Wes " the author" recalls only have two memories of his father one was when his father had a talk with him after he punched his sister Nikki and the other one was the day his father passed away. The "author" Wes father didn't choose to leave, unlike the "other Wes's father, which he never met until years later. I related to this chapter a lot, I too was raised by a single mother but my story is just a tad different. My family

go long is a book about team work , determination and the ability to overcome obsitcles. The h.v. eagles is a football team that went through a hardship. h.v.'s two-key players Tiki and Ronde Barber are tested when they have to step up thier roles on the team. With new quarterback Cody Hansen who seems to blame others for his actions and soon will face his own problems.Possible NFL player Sam Wheeler joins the h.v. team as their new coach and tries to prove everybody wrong except one