The Other Wes Moore Analysis

Both Weses had several circumstances in common that happened early on in their lives. Moore narrates that he lost his father at a young age due to a medical misdiagnosis. The author says that with the loss of his father, his family had to move to the Bronx to live with his grandparents. The author Wes was the second of three children, and with the absence of his father, his mother Joy had to work multiple jobs to send him and his siblings to school. Moore adds that he was enrolled in a private school but skipped his classes often and was put on academic probation. On the other hand, the

“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.

Intrinsic and extrinsic factors like family, expectations, perseverance, and motivation impact the way a person turns out to be. In the novel, The Other Wes Moore, by Wes Moore, the author speaks about another man with the same name that grew up in the same area and compares how they went in different paths based upon intrinsic and extrinsic factors.

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

Wes Moore, the author of “The Other Wes Moore” had many accomplishments in his life. He however gained notoriety with this book it was a New York Times best seller. In Chapter 7, the main idea is that two people living in the same environment had different outcomes in their lives by making entirely different decisions on how to deal with the adversities they faced in their lives. These decisions led to the lives that they ultimately lived. The tone was intense and high energy to begin with but then seemed to turn neutral in both men’s stories. The purpose is to inform the reader how the same environment can take two people and based on their decisions lead to very different out comes in life. The author takes each man’s thoughts and show how

In the novel The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates it tells the story of two boys with the same name but two very different mindsets in life. “Life and death, freedom and bondage, hang in the balance of every action we take” (xiv). Wes Moore (1), the author, has had many things that impacted to his mindset that led to good and evil choices thought-out his life. Wes Moore (2) had made decisions that set a wrong mindset that would leave him in one place for the rest of his life. The mindsets of Wes Moore (1) and Wes (2) impacted their chances with the law, their choices with education and their opportunities with employment.

Choices, whether small or large, play an important factor in the paths people take in life. In The Other Wes Moore, there are two men with the same name who turn out very differently; today, one is an accomplished scholar and decorated veteran, while the other is a convicted murderer serving a life sentence in prison. But they grew up in very similar circumstances; both grew up fatherless in heavily drug influenced neighborhoods and often ran into trouble with the police. In the search of finding what led him and the other man down such different paths, Wes Moore finds and shows in The Other Wes Moore that it is the choices a person makes that determines their fate in life.

    One central difference to think about when looking at the two individuals is the fact that Wes has a more supporting mother than Wes (2), in a person’s life a mother is so important and can be looked as a blessing. A mother is the one that supposed to be the person that takes great care of you and guides you,  and to teach what’s right from wrong. The author’s mother was much more supportive for her son, Wes acknowledges, “Every time I looked  around at the buildings and the trees and the view of the river, I was reminded of the sacrifices my mother was making to keep me there.” (Moore 52). Due to this quote, we can conclude that Wes’s mother, although struggling at the time, found a way to put her child in the best possible route in education. Wes presents it as kind of an understatement, however, from his mother doing this, it affects his life so much. By being put in a excellent school, it offers many more opportunities than that of the other Wes and he can gather a lot more help/exposure to guide him toward a bright future. On the other hand, we have Wes (2) that is lost and seems as if he just can’t find his way, “Young boys are more likely to believe in themselves if they know that there’s someone, somewhere, who shares that belief. To carry the

"Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will." Norman Cousins. This quote was the basic underlying moral of the book The Other Wes Moore and the short story The Third and Final Continent. The poem if acts as a guideline for a person’s willpower. The poem If shows the reader the steps to follow to come out of a situation of doubt with sheer-will power. The Other Wes Moore conveys this same theme when the main character breaks out of poverty in a first desperate, but then determined childhood. The Third and Final Continent follows the story of a talented young student and the hardships faced in his unfamiliar new life in The United States of America. These texts, If, The Other Wes Moore, and The Third and Final Continent represent how effort becomes the driving force of success even in improbable circumstances through use of setting, characterization, and conflict.

Depending on where someone is from can it affect/influence how they are. The Other Wes Moore By Wes Moore, the genre is a non-fiction memoir. In the book it talks about to boys with the same exact name with different faiths. There experiments started by drugs and were drug dealers both Wes Moore’s. They were both heading in the way for an unsuccessful life. They were both suck in a downwards spiral. What made one vel off and start going up.

“The Other Wes Moore,”is a novel written by Wes Moore, who found another man with the same name. However, they were definitely not the same person. The other man was raised in Baltimore, Maryland by a single-mother addicted to marijuana. In his adulthood, he was arrested and sentenced to life in prison without parole for robbing a jewelry store and being involved in the murder of a policeman. Throughout the story, the author visits and sends letters to the man in prison. He gathers information about the man’s life and how his decisions had ultimately led to his lifestyle for the rest of his days. The author compared both of their lives, and it is clear to see how their environments and associates had affected their earlier choices. For the

“The Other Wes Moore” written by Wes Moore, is a story about two boys who grew up around the same area and in similar circumstances. The author, Wes, grew into a well-respected man. The other Wes Moore goes to prison for the rest of his life, without a possibility of parole. During the story, the other Wes is punched in the face and instead of punching back he shot and killed the man who punched him. The story expresses many themes, one of which is that some people will do anything to other people’s lives to gain power, respect, or money. This is also shown when the other Wes describes the drug trade, when he almost stabs a kid, and when he and his crew shoot and kill a police officer.

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).

Every year over 500,000 people die due to drug use in the United States alone. Drug use has become such a problem president Richard Nixon declared war on drugs. Due to the immense scale of the problem, it has often inspired many novels. One example of a novel that incorporates drug use and the drug trade into the plot is the novel The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore. The book discusses the differences between the author and another character named Wes Moore. One key distinction between the two for example, the other Wes Moore involvement in the drug trade. Soon, however, the other Wes Moore grows to resent the drug trade and develops into a key passage in the book. The key argument Moore makes in that passage pertains that the effects of the drug trade become too horrific for people to handle when faced directly, demonstrated with the confrontation with Cheryl, through Wes Moore's use of repetition, and imagery.

Reactions are more than just facial expressions people produce, these constitute selections that humans elect to act on in answer to dilemmas which occur in their life. Both Wes Moores in the story entitled The Other Wes Moore, traveled through life composing several important choices, under conditions of pressure or influence. Moreover, friends and troubling circumstances swayed how they addressed life’s problems. Likewise, pressured to conform to the standards of the society with the right answer of the time period, Hester and Dimmesdale of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, felt extremely restricted in their freedom of options. Throughout both books various characters cave in situations and become victims to their problems, shaping people’s futures forever, using diction and imagery Hawthorne and Moore display how their response to the situation shaped them.