Short Story Of Wes Carver

Both the author Wes and the “other” Wes encountered having to make life choices. Towards the end of the book, the author Wes described the embarrassing experience of being attacked by a teenager in a

In chapter 5 of The Other Wes Moore, It is 5.30 am, and Moore is awoken by aloud shouts telling him to get out of his “racks.” His roommate urges him to get up and is but Moore tells him that he’ll wait until 8. As his roommate leaves, Moore is left confused about the situation he’s found himself in. First Sergeant Anderson enters the room and begins screaming and cursing at Moore in an unfamiliar language. Anderson then starts smiling before leaving Moore’s rack. Moore explains that this is his first morning at military school, which Joy has sent him to after he was put on academic and disciplinary probation at Riverdale. On the same day as he receives the news of probation, Moore is sitting next to Shani at home, punching her arm out of boredom.

Westly died when Wes was young. The first Wes Moore also had a two sisters, Nikki, and Shani. The other Wes Moore had a Mother named Mary, and a stepfather named Bernard. The other Wes Moore had never met his father. He also had an older brother named Toby who introduced him to dangerous situations.

In chapter two, Wes was playing football aggressively with some kids. The boy gets mad and throws a punch. Woody told Wes to not to retaliate. Wes ran home and grabbed a knife. Then, he started to chase the boy while the police pulled up. The police commanded to put the knife down, however Wes did not hear him; too consumed in his anger. “… He [police officer] lifted all eighty pounds of Wes off the ground, slamming him face first on the trunk of the police cruiser” Wes was only eight years old. This is the start that Wes made a decision that changed his life. He ignored two warnings and experience the injustice of the police at a young age. The way the police treated the children was unjust. Although Wes was engaging violence, the police did not arrest the other kid and questioned him why Wes did the action of chasing him with a knife.

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

Comparing my life to the two Wes Moores, I realized that my life was privileged compared to theirs. “The Other Wes Moore” is a book depicting the lives of two men with the same name but having completely different lives, one with a fortunate ending but the other with a tragic one. This book helps show how your decisions can affect your destiny and helps influence your choices in what you make of your life.

Both Wes Moores grew up in the same area of Baltimore around the same time but did not know each other. One day while reading the newspaper about him winning the Rhode Scholar, he noticed a story about a robbery of a jewelry store that ended with a man dead. One of the guys involved in the crime that was convicted to life in prison happened to be a man with also the name Wes Moore. The author reached out to him and spent a long time writing and visiting

“The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore is about two boys with the same name. They both grow up in the same neighborhood and with the same family situation. One Wes Moore’s father died and the other Wes Moore’s father left when he was a young boy. Both boys had mothers who had multiple jobs to support the family. One Wes Moore got into drugs while the other went to military school.

Wes’ home could be considered a broken one. His alcoholic dad left him and his mother ,(Mary), when Wes was young. His mother was then raising Wes, and sometimes Tony, by

Wes 2 could look up to, so, Wes 2 ended up following in his footsteps. Moore wrote, “Tony now

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

It has been proven however while Ray was on the run that he met up with his brothers multiple times after Ray escaped from prison. It is believed that his brothers were meeting up and helping Ray further develop his plan so that they could get a share of the reward for killing

Wes Moore had the support from many people such as family and friends who have helped him to be where and who he is today. On the other hand, The "other" Wes Moore was a little different. He had two parents named Mary and Bernard. While Wes was still a kid, his father walked out on him and his family because Mary had enough being abused by her loving husband Bernard. The Other Wes had one brother,

He knew what the game this was, it was the same game that had consumed Tony and put a bullet or two in him. The same game that Tony continually urged Wes to stay out of. But Wes rationalized. I’m not really selling drugs.” (Page 58) This small choice right here was the one that brought Wes, who was living in Dundee Village at the time, down the life of selling drugs. Yes, he may of ending up selling drugs as he got older, but this was that start to it. By choosing to take the job of using the headset, and when he got older he became a leader of a drug operation. In a way, he ended up like his brother Tony. When Wes was younger, his brother was in the drug game and told Wes to stay out of

shot. After doing ballistic tests on the rifle the police found a palm print of Oswald's on the