The Importance Of Saving The Author Life

Their mothers were very influential to how the Moore’s lives turned out. Wes’s mother was not around much and left Wes with his brother, Tony. Tony was often involved with drugs, dangerous situations, and not very good people. So Wes grew up around strong drug abuse, addiction, and crime because his mother was often gone. At a young age, he learned about these drugs that his

Over time, Moore became a product of the system by being raised in a single-parent household while “he had never met his father” (Moore 16) and his mother “was left with two alcoholic, abusive men who shared the DNA of her two children but no husband or dad for her boys” (Moore 17). Moore was raised in the best way possible that his mother knew how to raise him, however it didn’t cut it. Mary, Moore’s mother, was an extremely hard worker and was working long hours to support her family but that meant she was not around to parent Wes as much as she should’ve. With Moore’s lack of a father figure, his brother Tony steps in to help guide him because “he felt his brother’s life could be saved” (Moore 27) and Tony wanted Wes to try and escape the cycle of systematic oppression within their environment. The domestic aspect of Moore’s environment strongly influenced the decisions he made on a day to day basis because his home life was non-existent and there was a severe lack of parenting. In the end, Moore became a product of how he was raised and the troubles that existed within his household because of Tony’s confusing messages of staying out of trouble and doing the right thing while he goes and sells drugs, his mother’s lack of attention to Wes, and the lack of a father figure that would guide him in a better direction. These aspects of his home environment add up to the end result of Moore’s life and the tragedy that Tony pushed for him to stay away

Wes 2 remembered that his mother liked to go out dancing and partying with her friends at clubs. She showed herself to be a bad role model several times. One thing she did was going from one abusive relationship to the next. By the end of the book she had three children with three different fathers. She even had her last boyfriend, who was married to another woman, practically living with her and her sons. She would say with her words that she was against using drugs, however, when Wes 2 found the marijuana in her pocket he found out the truth. He also found himself trying to emulate and prove himself to his older brother, Tony, who was also a walking contradiction. Not only did Tony deal with drugs, he dropped out of school, and taught Wes to solve problems with physical force. His words were of encouragement for a better future for his brother, but his actions proved that he didn’t believe better was possible. The author writes “Wes didn't think Tony was a hypocrite exactly--he knew why his brother felt obliged to warn him off. But it was clear that Tony didn't have any better ideas or he would've made those moves himself” (Moore page 71). Wes 2 was learning through what he saw being lived out through his mother and

She was a strong willed woman. She made a deal with herself- “she would get her education and leave the neighborhood no matter what it took” (Moore 19).Wes Moore’s mom sent him to a private school to keep him away from the hard life that he was living in streets. The inmate’s mother also went to college. The inmate, Wes Moore, went to a public school where he was participating in the outside environmental drug dealing, and where he also got arrested. While the author Wes Moore was getting educated by his grandparents and mother, the inmate was doing the opposite. Both Wes Moore’s moved to different towns. The author Wes got into trouble in school for painting graffiti on the walls. However, they differed in interest outside of being trouble makers at school. Wes, the author, liked playing basketball, and the inmate Wes enjoyed talking to the girls. Wes, the inmate, had a bad influence; his older brother. The inmate was following his older half-brother steps by becoming a drug dealer. Meanwhile, the author Wes only had a diversity of influential people surrounding him that he could admire. He grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar and business leader. However, the inmate, Wes Moore, is serving a life sentence in prison.

As they grow, all of the life choices and parenting styles the parent commits to interfere with how the child will develop as a person. With that being said, the father of the child might abuse the mother in front of the child every night when he comes home drunk. Consequently, the child might grow up believing it was okay to hit women. On the other hand, the parents could be raising the child perfectly but what they experience at school could abolish every life lesson that the parents had put before them. As the African proverb states, “It takes a village to raise a child”. No matter who enters the child’s life for any given time, it will affect who the child will become. In the book The Other Wes Moore, both Moore boys grew up in a town filled with violence and drugs. Even though both boys’ mothers raised them properly and gave them every care in the world, the environment that they grew up in paid its toll on both boys. As the other Wes Moore’s mother found out about his dealing with drugs, the first thing she asked herself was, “Who is to blame for this” (74). All of the people that influenced Wes; Tony, the neighborhood, the school system, and Wes’s friends flooded through his mother’s mind at that very moment. “She put them all on trial in her mind,” Moore writes (75). It is not just the mother or the parents who are raising the child, it is the entire village.

The choices the Wes Moore mothers made early on in their lives greatly influenced their futures. Author Wes Moore chose to no longer run away from military school because of his understanding of authority, which he obtained from his mother, his path changed despite where he was previously heading. However, the other Wes’ mother failed to take initiative to help Other Wes with his drug addiction, leading Other Wes down a winding path. The easier choice will be made in difficult times by someone who has not been positively influenced and redirected. Someone who has not set their path straight in life is incapable of helping others set their paths straight.

Although Jeannette Walls and both the Wes Moores had similar environments while growing up, they each had different outlets for holding their own, such as writing for her school, turning to drug dealing, and focusing on military school. One of these is the obvious negative choice among the others. The other Wes Moore, instead of trying to discover a higher road, undertook the exact “job” that his brother had warned him against for years. Wes, however, genuinely thought that this would solve of his problems. He thought that having money would make him happier. He chose this life even directly after remembering how addictive and dangerous drugs were. Wes Moore the author writes the other Wes also thinking, “And he understood, faintly… how easy

Nicole Mareik Barbara Goward English 399 9 December 2016 Essay 6 The decisions we make about the lives we live decide the sorts of legacies we clear leave. In, The Other Wes Moore written by Wes Moore the author, is a tale around two young men with comparative foundations and comparative circumstances, experiencing childhood in similar neighborhoods. Indeed, at first look, the pursuer may be constrained to see these young men as the same, and ponder what brought about their lives to wind up so in an unexpected way.

Family had a major influence on the lives of both the author Wes Moore and prisoner Wes Moore. Author Wes Moore’s family kept him from getting into too much trouble. In fact, they intervened at a pivotal point in young Wes’s life and sent him to a military academy to set him straight. At one point, young Wes considered that “I knew my mother was considering sending me away, but I never thought she’d actually do it.” (Moore 87) But she did, “Welcome to military school.” (Moore 89). This was the best decision his family could have made. However, prisoner Wes’s main family influence - a hypocritical older brother involved heavily in the local drug world –pushed prisoner Wes further into a life of crime. Even though his mother tried, she

Although Mary Duane is freed physically from the mother, she often encounters trials and temptations that threaten to make her become her mother. Mary Duane almost fails as the heroine because she is the nanny for David Merridith’s children and David attempts to seduce her in her attic bedroom. Mary is tempted to repeat the actions that her mother made and thereby become her mother when David Merridith visits her to draw her as he watches her undress.

Despite the fact that Wes's mother is clearly infatuated with her husband Bill, in the beginning, now, it is obvious that love no longer exists. We do know why the reasons for their unsuccessful marriage, maybe his abusive behavior. We can conclude that Joy did not want to be in an abusive relationship, hence the reason why she left her husband. The author shares this personal information about his mother to show readers the hardships that Joy (his mother) went through, and give us a peek at Joy’s personality, the woman who raised him. While reading one might wonder if Wes lived in a rough neighborhood, how was he able to turn out so successful? This form of the question is answered with information about Wes’s parents, and what kind of people

She lost another love by the name of Oluf, could not find much work, and lost hard-earned money through a bad business investment. After all this peril she took Russell and Doris and moved to Baltimore. Another move equaled more stress, less money, and more struggling to get by. With what seemed to be the world against her, she made it. She remarried, bought a house, and became the success she demanded of herself. Every step of the way Russell was exposed to all the ups and downs. His mother’s life during those times shaped and influenced his own.

She is presented as uneducated about the racial problems occurring in Harlem, resting her trust in the narrator and the era of younger people to make a change. Her composition as an uneducated woman develops her purpose in the book to only be perceived as giving the narrator motherly support that was absent from his life. This caring persona soon after turns into a burden clinging onto the narrator. His involvement with the brotherhood has impacted his sense of self and Mary is too much of a reminder of his southern past. He decides to abandon Mary in order to dedicate himself to the brotherhood.

Even though this is a memoir, it can teach us a lot about human experiences. What I’ve realized while reading this book is that every parents wants their kids to have a good life, and she teached me that with love and faith, you can do more things that other people thinks you can’t. Like James’ mother has done a lot to help her kids. She goes to work and takes care of them while spend time teach them how to be a good person. To me, I think the power she got were from the love to her kids, and her strong faith in who she called God. This is like my parents, because we’ve only came here for 4 years, they doesn’t know much English, so they doesn’t have a good jobs like other people. But they still spend times taking care of me and my siblings. This can shows that with love you can do things that other people can’t imagine.

After years of abuse Mary had grown weak from a variety of illnesses and her owner wished to have nothing more of her and ordered her to find a new owner to purchase her. She valiantly tried to find suitable owners but Mr. and Mrs. Wood, her owners at the time, kept telling potential buyers who would give Mary her freedom that she was not for sale when it came time to discuss selling her. Shortly after this Mary met a free-man by the name Daniel James, the two would eventually get married without Mr. Wood knowing of this act. When Mr. Wood found out that Mary and Daniel were together, his wife proceeded abuse Marry until she become too ill to work. Mr. and Mrs. Wood then moved, along with Mary, to England for their children to attend school and as a way to keep Mary away from Daniel. In England, Mary met the Anti-Slavery Society, who for years would help with the process of either buying her freedom or providing work and place to live for the coming years. She would eventually come under the service of the Pringle family where she would live out her remaining time and Mr. Pringle would eventually publish her stories and experiences. It took years of suffering for Mary to gain her freedom from the Wood family, but thanks to the Anti-Slavery Society she was eventually able to accomplish her goal of gaining her freedom and getting her story out to the