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In the novel, The Other Wes Moore, Moore discovers the way people shape our lives and influence our future by examining the effects of family support, influence from peers, and his experience with authoritative figures in his life. He sees this through the story of the other Wes Moore. A young man who grew up a product of his environment, single mother, and a brother who was to involved with the bad life to be of any help to him. With this Wes Moore's life was sentenced to where he is now. The author is astonished by the fact that although their paths significantly differed they weren't always so different.

In The Other Wes Moore, the author expresses the striking similarities between him and another man with the same name. The two men are so similar, in fact, that there are very few elements of their lives that set them apart, such as their family histories and personal choices. In writing his book, the author has several target audiences in mind, from young black men to young adults pursuing higher education and people in positions of power. Despite his multiple target audiences, the author has one overall purpose for his book: to show what happens when a person full of potential gives up hope. The story also goes further, showing the importance of both family history and personal choice in the shaping of a person’s future.

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

The critically acclaimed novel The Other Wes Moore, allows a detailed look into the triumphs and downfalls of two young men with almost identical situations. Both boys were involved in illegal activities and both fell into trouble with law enforcement, Both boys were also given a second chance to turn away from the treacherous path they were on. The author, Wes Moore, recollects his childhood and compares it to the Wes Moore that lived less than five blocks away. "Both of us did some pretty wrong stuff when we were younger. And both of us had second chances, but if the situation or context where you make the decision doesn’t change, the second chance doesn’t mean much, huh?” Wes points out the importance of not continuing down the path that was surely leading to nothing but trouble and eventual despair. As both boys grew up in the respective neighborhoods they both were faced with the harsh truth that where they were growing up was likely to lead them down a road of bad decisions. That road eventually lead both of them to trouble with the law and with their schools. The author was steadily heading towards the life of a delinquent

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.

Baltimore, Maryland is one of the most dangerous cities in America, with over 41,000 crimes committed annually. Growing up as a kid in Baltimore was very strenuous, often times children grew up around drug activity and had little to no choice, but to follow in their peers footsteps. The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore is a good novel that brings you into the lives of two African American children living in Baltimore trying to find their way in a hostile world. Both characters grew up fatherless on street corners around drug activity, however, the rest of their lives are completely different. This novel dives into the life choices of two kids as they grow up learning about themselves. The choices they made determined how they would live the rest of their lives, one of the Wes’s would spend the rest of his life incarcerated while the other grew up to be a the first African American Rhodes Scholar. Although they have similar backgrounds, there are many differences that allowed their lives to diverge.

In the introduction of the work by Wes Moore I read about how he described his life as a soldier, what situations you could be put in and how it can change your life. During the introduction he talk about another book Wes Moore had wrote call the other Wes Moore. This book is about how two boys who shared the same name and life in the same situation turned out completely different. One ended up leaving to go to Oxford University in England and the other ended up in a six-by eight-foot jail cell. He states in his introduction that he doesn’t understand why they ended up being so different but so similar while they was young. He also states in his introduction that “this book is not a how to guide,” that life is a journey and that’s how our life’s

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.

A person does not control their personality as much as role models do. The Other Wes Moore is about two boys named Wes Moore that grew up on the same street but there is one very distinct difference between them. One is a successful lawyer and the other one is in prison. The story takes the reader through the lives of both men and key decisions to show the people they are today. In the book, The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, the author explores the idea of role models to develop the theme, role models shape the way people act and think.

Life can go many different ways depending on maybe one decision you make early on in your life. The Other Wes Moore written by Wes Moore describes the life of two kids who grew up around the same area with some similarities in their lives. One Wes grew up selling drugs with a bad role model of a brother and a mother who was oblivious to everything. The other Wes who was the author grew up skipping school but had a mother who sent him to military school which really turns things around for him. Similarities and differences pertaining to choices and education of both Moores’ were described in The Other Wes Moore.

“Every day brings new choices,” (Martha Beck). This quote really relates to the characters in “The Other Wes Moore” because the choices they make affect the outcome of their lives. In the book “The Other Wes Moore”, written by Wes Moore, characters, Wes and Moore have a lot of similarities like the absence of their father; however, they also have a lot of differences, these similarities and differences shape the life that these characters live.

In The Other Wes Moore, two young boys are raised blocks from each other in the middle of crime infested, poor neighborhoods of Baltimore. The book focused on the duality of fate and choice and how to use the two to shape an individual. The importance of a role model is principle, but both characters were missing their father in their lives. The difference is that one had role models from his drug dealing brother, and one had examples at his military school. Students are at the stage of their life where the examples set by others may have a stronger impact on them than they may even be conscious of.

I chose the theme “Literature is counterbalanced” because the passion and appreciation the narrator has for literature is counterbalanced by bitter disappointment. I chose literature as the first word because literature is the one of the main focuses of the story and it is the reason why this competition of winning a chance with a writer is brought up. I also chose counterbalanced to emphasize the fact that his love for literature is weighted out at the end of the story by disappointment when he is caught for plagiarizing. The students compete with one another, using their knowledge and their pens to win the

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