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In the book, The Other Wes Moore, readers are introduced to two naive boys who share the same name and live an almost identical life at the beginning of their childhood. Author Wes Moore tells readers a chilling story about how he and “Other Wes” were raised in neighboring Baltimore neighborhoods and grew up living an almost identical life. The story is based on how the two men face many obstacles throughout their life that essentially depict their own futures. As the boys become more familiar with the idea of violence and drug related activity, the proposal of living the same life suddenly becomes extinct. The two Wes Moore’s eventually end up living two completely different ways of life and it can be argued how they ended up the way they did. The idea of environment, education, and even expectations are all themes readers are presented with in the story. Although all of these factors play a vital role in the development of Wes themselves, their environment is essentially what had the greatest impact on their futures and is what set the tone for the rest of their lives.

The Assault by Harry Mulisch constructs a powerful and emotional narrative about a man struggling in the last dark days of Nazi occupation in Holland and the ordeal of having to grieve the death of his family. Anton Steenwijk encounters women in his life that will shape his subconscious indefinitely, such as Truus. Truss bears the greatest impact on Anton throughout the novel, and this is demonstrated further in his relationships with Saskia. Furthermore, Lisbeth acts as a counterpoint to Saskia and demonstrates Anton's newfound ability to move on as the novel progresses.

“The Other Wes Moore” is a story that follows two boys with the exact same name who start off living very similar lives in Baltimore, Maryland. One of the boys live on to be an extremely successful man and the other one is living the rest of his life behind bars. The two men wondered how their strikingly similar path diverged into two completely different fates and then an argument formed. Are people products of their choices or their environment and expectations thrown upon them? The book proves that people are products of their choices. Both Wes Moores were raised by a single mom in the tough streets of Baltimore and they both were rebellious children who got arrested at a young age. Their similarities lessened as their choices and their mom’s choices contrasted. The more fortunate Wes was sent to Military school and he chose to make the most of it and become the best version of himself. His determination and hard work trumped his previous hooligan mindset, therefore his future was bright and fulfilling. The other Wes chose to follow his brother,

Throughout the book I felt connected to one character, that character was George. George and I share similar qualities and our lifestyles can relate. One major characteristic I found in George is his ability

Even though Brett ended up in jail, he was still changed by The Farm in a positive way, he learned how to trust, make friends, he learned not everyone hates him even though he may think so, and he learned that violence it not always the answer and there are other ways to solve problems rather than using his fists.

The book That was Then, This Is Now is about to really good friends Bryon and Mark starting to go their separate ways. Bryon was a 16 year old hustler who lived in a hood. His mother was poor and she had adopted his best friend Mark. Mark was an illegitimate who was adopted by new parents that got in a drunken fight and killed each other. Mark was a thief, and he always got away with everything that he possibly could do. Teen kids in there element who thought they could rule the world, everything was theirs and that nothing could possibly go wrong. They did everything bad together smoke, drink, jump kids for their money, steal, skip school, take drugs and get into gang brawls.

In Wes Moore's book, The Other Wes Moore, he describes both his childhood and the early life of another boy of the same name who grew up near the author in the same Baltimore neighborhood. Moore's book explores the reasons why one boy, the author, succeeded in life while the other Wes Moore was overwhelmed by his struggles and will spend his life in prison. The author Wes Moore addresses different topics for the reader to take from the book.The ideas that are presented by him and should be recognised are the environment the boys grew up in, the motivation they got from family, and the influence from not having a father. The author Wes Moore has always had a supportive family while on the other hand the other Wes Moore had no one besides Tony, who even then was a big factor on why Wes is where he is at today. Their environment plays a big role in both of the boy’s life since they both were around the same things. The only difference is that one had a family who got him out of there to an environment that shaped him up to be the man that he is today and the one that never left will be the one that will never leave prison for the rest of his life.

Hardball author Chris Matthews discussed several philosophies of Italian writer Niccolo Machiavelli. Matthews used the following quote “Men are by nature as much bound by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.” Machiavelli discovered that to gain someone’s trust and loyalty, having the person perform a favor or task will achieve the connection. “He observed that when a city was besieged for many months, when the people had lived through tremendous hardship within the city’s walls, when they had suffered horror and hunger in defense of their prince, they were all the more loyal to him.” (Matthews 66) Thomas S. Foley, the former House majority leader, was rescued from a plane crash in Washington. The man, who saved Foley, never heard

One’s childhood has a lasting impact on their entire life. Moore’s upbringing and the loving family he was born into, no matter how trivial it may seem, greatly contributed to his success. Wes seemingly grew up the same as any other kid in the Bronx – in a single-parent household, surrounded by bad influences… what separated him from the crowd? His support system: his family, and their ultimate support and sacrifices made all the difference. As a teenager, Wes seemed to be going down the wrong path. He constantly skipped school, his academic failures were overwhelming, and he was even arrested for vandalism. In the case of the other Wes, his family simply let these actions slide, and decision after decision ultimately landed him with a life sentence in prison. The author Wes’s mother, however, refused to allow this behavior to continue. As a method of intervention, she forced Moore to attend Valley Forge, and in doing so, probably saved his career. The extent of his family’s sacrifice was evident on page 95 when Wes realized that “my grandparents took the money they had in the home in the Bronx, decades of savings and mortgage payments, and gave it to my mother

Pete is one of the most interesting and varied characters in this book, and I’m choosing to combine the two “separate” characters in this response, and analyze Pete as a whole. Pete is introduced as “The Meathead”, a total jock that has rejected the stresses of the overachiever culture that perpetuates the Whitman campus. Initially he attempted to act in sync with the other students, but he had a breakdown after using diet pills to stay up to complete a complicated essay for school. Pete ‘s purpose of inclusion is to show that there is more to high school than just studying and school, but one should also hang out with friends and have fun. His family is going through economic struggles due to his father losing his lucrative programming job

In the book beastly beast character qualities help the theme of the book because in the book he was turned into a beast because all he ever cared about was how he looked and the people that he hung out with had to all be close to as good looking as him and if he thought that you weren't pretty then he would shut you out and wouldn't talk to you and make fun of you because you were ugly or something about you was different. When he is changed into the beast he must find true love while he looks like a monster and if he doesn't then he will look like the beast forever. During so he learns to appreciate what he has and that not everyone can look a certain way and he meets this girl and he is in love with her but doesnt think it will work out because

I think Gene has matured a lot from the beginning of the book. He was always messing around and at the end he knew when it was time to be serious and when he could laugh and joke around. I think that whenever you learn to mature then you will have lost some or most of your innocence. I believe that to be able to mature you should know how to act in all times. You should be able to know at all times when you should be serious or whenever you can be messing around and having fun.

This story relates to my father, who has five brothers and or sisters and had a single mother who struggled to keep food on the table and had to work 24/7, just like the book that I have read ‘By the River’ Harry and Keith’s father who is a single parent who is struggling with the challenges that life is throwing at him, just like my father's mother had to do as well. The similarities between this book ‘By the River’ and my life is that we go to school for education and have the same sort of classes like music this is said in the book that ‘Harry likes the music teacher’. We also live in the same country in Australia which makes it easy for me to understand their background, for example, I would understand that it floods really bad in Australia and the slang language would make it harder for a person in America to understand what a stinkweed is because those weeds are only in Australia. This book is different to me by having only one parent in this book, I have a mother and a father. This book was a Different book to anything that I have ever watched or read.

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As I am walking I notice there is a strange young boy prowling along the garden, as I ask him how he is here and why he is walking about, he replies that Estella had let him in and told him he may walk around. I will not take this as a valid answer, it is time ‘“Come and fight’”(88) I say. As I prepare to fight this scoundrel, I realize that “‘ I ought to give you a reason for fighting, too. There it is!”’(89). I say this as I fling my leg behind him, pulled his hair, and hit my head straight into his stomach. He then proceeds to throw a blow at me, but of course, he misses, he tries to hit me again but before he does I spout out “‘Aha, would you?”’(89) and start to dance a bit backwards, although I must have been doing something other than