Character Analysis: The Other Wes Moore

Single mothers and absent fathers had a big part in The other Wes Moore. They had affected how they did in school, with other people, and in bad situations they had gotten into.

Authors in many instances use the main elements in the story such as setting and narrative to prove a point in the story. For example, writers often use characters, their actions, and their interaction with other characters to support or prove a theme. In the short story “Our Thirteenth Summer”, Barry Callaghan effectively uses characters to develop the theme that childhood is fragile and easily influenced. One of the ways that Callaghan makes effective use of characters to develop the theme is by describing the tension between Bobbie and his parents. This usage of characters supports the theme because Bobbie’s childhood is no longer free to do what he wishes, but has to bow down to his parents’

In conclusion, both Wes Moore’s had critical moments and different standpoints throughout the entirety of their lives. Though they both had individual accountabilities it was the choices that they individually made that ultimately determined there fates. “Wes and I stared at each other for a moment, surrounded by the evidence that some kids were forced to become adults prematurely. These incarnated men, before they’d even reached a point of basic maturity, had flagrantly-and tragically-squandered the few opportunities they’d

As well as the final example in The Other Wes Moore, is how both Wes Moore mothers gave up large sacrifices for Wes because they were fatherless growing up. The authors mom Joy, strongly encouraged education, having good morals, and safe

In order to help the author Wes, Joy sent him to military school because she knew that the choice she made for her son would ensure that her son would be able to go into the world completely disciplined and prepared even if he hated her for sending him away. When explaining how the book was written, the author acknowledged, “This book is meant to show us how… our destinies can be determined by a single stumble down the wrong path, or a tentative step down the right one” (Moore xiv). She made the decision as a mother for her son’s entire future that ends up stopping him from making decisions like the other Wes Moore’s. The author acknowledges that the decisions he made and the decisions that the other Wes made affected their lives forever when he said, “The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that mine could have been his” (Moore 180). The other Wes Moore made poor decisions in his youth that led to a continuous use of drugs, alcohol, and unprotected sex. These decisions ultimately led to Wes being put into jail, hurting the ones he loved and changing his future

Luckily the author Wes had a lot of support from his mother and she also represented to him a father figure since he was the only male among his sisters. The author Wes said, “Intent to make some sense of the tragedy, she used the money to create a fund that would provide equipment and training to paramedics on a new procedure for dealing with respiratory or cardiac arrest, a technique that could have saved my father’s life (36).” Besides dealing with the fact that she was a single mother of three children she still managed to make a good deed in honor of her husband who could have been saved if they would have been offered that equipment and training. Unlike the author Wes’s mother, the other Wes’s mother was seeing married men and setting bad examples to her children.

because his way of living is not an good example to show the other Wes. This simply gives the other Wes a disadvantage to not growing up with a competent role model like author Wes. Author Wes had multiple competent role models surrounding him that help him have a better understanding on how to succeed in life. Author Wes grew up with a decent father, who showed him how to take care of his family by working, loving and being present. This not only allow author Wes to have a good role model but a father figure which gave him a advantage over other Wes. Even though his father

Through Wes Moore’s The Other Wes Moore, the author tells the story of himself and another man with the same name and a strikingly similar upbringing. In chapter 6 it is revealed that the parental and authority figures in both their lives greatly affected and shaped who they became. By comparing and contrasting the tough choices they made, complications they face at home and at school, and their new authoritative positions, the author uses the two Wes Moore’s lives in Chapter 6 to appeal to pathos, allowing the reader to feel a connection with each character and develop an understanding of both Moore’s accomplishments and hardships.

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.

As Wes says goodbye to his African friends and host community he observes "His tribe's influence in making him a man was obvious and indelible....I realized the journey I took was never mine alone either"(171). The realization that the African tribe was the essential factor in creating extraordinary individuals lead to his realization that his own success’ were accredited to the influence and actions of his parents. Moore’s word choice in the quote allows the reader to deepen their understanding about how actions of others affect personal outcomes. Wes attributes his successful life to the actions taken by his parents, acknowledging that without them his life could have resembled the other Wes Moore’s, full of drugs, violence and ultimately prison. Throughout the entirety of the story Wes recalls the countless actions his parents took in forming, in a similar way Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the sin of a mother as a rudimentary way of shaping her daughter.

Have you ever wondered how your roots effect how your life turns out? The three main roots of life consists of education, poverty, and community. Each one of these things can have a direct correlation with your life. In the book, The Other Wes Moore written by Wes Moore, there are two different Wes Moores who have some issues with their roots. Neither one of them had a perfect life, but the author Wes had a little bit easier of a time. The author Wes lived in Maryland for a period of time before him and his mother moved to the Bronx. Wes’s father died when he was young because the doctors refused to treat him properly and they wound up misdiagnosing him. Wes went to a private school when they moved and would wind up going to military school,

The first week at his military school, Wes tried several times to went home. He had access to do a phone call to whoever he wanted to talk, if he would be able to convince that person in five minutes, then he could go back to home. On the phone his mother said, “Wes you don’t go anywhere until you give this place a try” (Moore 95). Wes wasn’t persuaded at first, but the words his mother told him must have stuck. He started doing better in school because he realized what his family has sacrificed in order for him to be there. Gradually, he became sergeant of platoon, a cadet master sergeant, and the youngest senior noncommissioned officer in the entire corps. Even though he was forced to stay in military school; slowly he changed his outlook in military school.

Connection: The Other Wes Moore is a book about two men named Wes Moore that grew up minutes away from each other in tough areas of Baltimore. This story describes their up bringing and decision making that ultimately led to the lives they lived. Just as the chapter said, this specific book is one where you have to ask yourself, can this person be saved? By asking this question you are stepping out of your perspective and into the character’s. The first Wes Moore had a hard youth with tough crowds, but had excellent role models that helped him

At first, I saw this as equality in the boy’s lives. Yet as I read on and listened to more of their stories I realized how different the situations were. The first difference I realized was the reason why each of the fathers weren’t present. As the other Wes states, “Your father wasn’t there because he couldn’t be, my father wasn’t there because he chose not to be” (1). Though both boys grew up without fathers, how each boy’s family reacted made the huge difference. Wes’s older brother, Tony, appeared as a great role model. He was always encouraging his younger brother to continue on his education and avoid the path in life that he took. But as most say, actions speak louder than words. And with Tony being “a veteran of the drug game at eighteen”, he didn’t provide the best example for his little brother (57). On the other hand, the other Wes found his need for a male figure in his grandfather. What Wes didn’t realize was that he grandfather’s “strict” rules would ultimately pave the right path for

Tobias’s mother was raised by her father and mother and lived pleasantly growing up. After her marriage ended and the misery of her long violent affair, she was determined to be free and to pursue getting rich on uranium. Similarly, Moore’s mother was raised by her father and mother and lived commodiously growing up. Unlike Tobias’s mother, Moore’s mother went to college to pursue a career. A junior in college she married her first husband, but soon left the marriage because of his abusive ways. According to Wes, “his mother vowed never to let another man put hands on her or would she tolerate it in others either.” The day Wes playing hit his older sister, his mother was furious with him. Even though Wes was a young child, she was adamant