Compare And Contrast The Other Wes Moore

In his book, “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates,” Wes Moore (2011) tells a true story about two men from Baltimore who have identical names but have different outcomes in life. He also illustrates the similarities of their life’s situations when they were younger, the decisions they made in life and their impacts, and the roads they took that ultimately led them to where they are today.

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.

Looking back at it all with the metamorphosis in place no doubt this story speaks to me on our own individual level of experiences from life as well. Two men born in the city of Baltimore with the same name comes down to examining our own decisions in life one could think. However I’m adamant of this particular journey of the two Wes Moore’s. The author Moore makes me differentiate between and use my own comparison with some similarities. However there are less similarity and less comparison as I take time to reflect for me. Interesting as it may be, Moore the author and Rhodes Scholar how inevitable with great success. Then Wes the other one is schedule to spend the rest of his life in prison.

    Humans have come to a conclusion that all lives are different, but all go through many hardships and tragedies. The impact from a slight difference can vary to be very vast to very small, such a slight difference, however, can change a person’s life as a whole. In the book, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore there is a difference that can be identified between the author’s life and that of the other Wes. This difference, though can be very critical and is ultimately able to lead to a path of triumph or failure for an individual. The lack of involvement a mother has for their child can fundamentally deprive them from succeeding, and parent involvement has the opportunity to

Wes Moore could be in jail if it wasn’t for some of the sacrifices that other people made for him and Wes Moore could be out of jail if he would have made some of these decisions. This essay will determine what the Wes Moore’s had in common and how they were different and how they had such different paths this is mainly because of the similarities and differences between their education and family relationship.

"The Other Wes Moore" is a fictional book that tells the story of an author and another Wes Moore who are forced to live without a father to teach them the rules of life. Their mothers are hard-working people who work all day and can't take care of their children because they work all day. Wes has an older brother, Tony, who is involved in drugs. They both had to make decisions that could greatly impact their future. The author and the other Wes had many points in time when the decision could change where he would end up later in life.

In the book, The Other Wes Moore it is difficult to believe the great similarities in the lives of the two Moores, who share a name and other aspects of life. The two were raised fatherless and were born in the late 1970’s in the neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. They also happen to have encountered similar experiences when growing up, but at one point one of them became a criminal and the other a scholar (the author of the book). The author of the book seems to be interested in the similarities of the two boys as opposed to their different experiences. The story is interesting and makes one imagine what would have become of the writer if he did not by any chance come across the people who guided him to become what

The other Wes moore born and raised in West Baltimore,Without a father and his only male role model,a brother in the dope game(Tony), and a weak minded mother(Mary). There wasn't much guidance in this young mans life. Absence of a father can sometime Damage a boy's life,not knowing whether or not it's your fault he left,not knowing if he’s coming back or not, even more so if he wants to be apart of your life. In his father's absence ,he resorted to something he always known would be

“One name, two fates,” that what the author of the Other Wes Moore stated on the cover of his book. Two boys that were born in the same neighborhood in Baltimore, and had a difficult childhood since they both grew up fatherless. The coincidence was that the two boys were called Wes. They both shared a lot of similarities from living in a poor neighborhood and growing up in Baltimore street corners with their squads. However, their futures were completely different as one achieved the impossible and the other was a convicted murderer serving a life sentence. People may think that how could this happen since they both were living the same circumstances. However, in the book Wes Moore, the boys did not have equal opportunities in terms of parenting, education, and environment.

“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” This quote by Carol Burnett very well shows how a decision you make can really change a life. In The Other Wes Moore, the author Wes Moore and the ‘other’ Wes Moore live in the same place, have the same name, and never knew each other growing up. They grew up to go in very different direction. ONe is living his dream life, and one is living in a cell. Similarities and differences pertaining to education and

The Other Wes Moore The Other Wes Moore is a book about two children with similar lifestyles when they were growing up and the same names, but ending up in different places in their lives. The story is about the other Wes Moore, who was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment and Wes Moore, the author, who faces poverty and has an ambition of receiving proper education (Moore, 2012).

Many know of the tune “It’s a Small World” played at the Disney Parks. It’s lyrics repeat, “It’s a small world after all,” over and over until you have it cemented in your brain for eternity (but that’s beside the point). These lyrics connect with the book, The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, because of how closely connected two men living in Baltimore were. Both men named Wes Moore with a father out of the picture made it an oddly “small world.” But although they had very similar upbringings, their lives took extremely different paths. Three key differences that make them different are: why their fathers weren’t apart of their lives, what they grew up around, and how their mother’s dealt with troubled kids.

Life is precious, and short. Very short. People are put on this Earth to live and those same people get to decide how they want to live. There are many situations some of which can be life altering and our decisions are . In The Other Wes Moore, both Wes’s had the ability to control their destinies and decided how they wanted to live.

The Other Wes Moore depicts how lives can be changed through choices and circumstances. The author believes that the difference between the two Wes Moores was because of their environment, not because they did not have the same abilities or a difference in characters. Both Weses had the abilities to be successful. Wes was a high ranking cadet who had more than eight hundred cadets under his command. The other Wes ran a successful drug operation. Even if this Wes was running an illegal business, both men were leaders. But they also had very similar environments: Single mother homes, drug ridden neighborhoods, and poverty all around.The difference for him was the people around him. The other Wes believes that they became what was expected of

"The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine... It's unsettling to know how little separates each of us from another life altogether (Moore XI)." The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore is about two men who have the same name, Wes Moore. Both grew up in similar areas, each made choices that lead to one spending life in jail and the other spent his being in the military. The Wes Moore's grew up in the 1970's-1980's. They both were poor with single mothers who worked day in and day out, and still struggled to be able to be above the poverty line. For each man there was one moment that changed the future of their life. In the book,The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, the author explains the idea of poverty to develop the theme poverty can affect an individual negatively, but each action and decision a person makes can control whether his or her life is positive or negative.