The Story Of The Moore Family

Wes Moore wrote a captivating novel, The Other Wes Moore, to divulge the importance of family. The author explains the inconsistencies within his family, but clarifies the strength and willpower of his family led to his success. He compares his life to that of the Other Wes Moore, a man who lived a similar, but very different life. The most common similarity between the two is neither had a father in their home. The difference, though, relied on how the two Wes’ allowed society to alter their personal morals. The author allowed himself to commit a few crimes and skip school. However, Wes Moore later allowed his mentors, in military school, to influence how he respected others and their well-being. The other Wes accepted violence and dealing

Wes Moore establishes his writing style quickly with an intriguingly dictated introduction. Every word carefully chosen to lay out how he came across this story. How intricately the story intersects not only his life but the life of a man with too many similarities to Wes including sharing his name. Wes Moore introduces the readers into his world with the utmost respect for the people in this intense anecdote while making sure that respect translates into interest and concern for the people, not boredom.

The Moore family is a family that is made up of three generations, starting with the grandparents, parents, along with the children. The Moore family also consist of multiple racial groups, such as African American and Caucasian that causes divided within the family because of the cultural differences within each group. The Moore family is made up of Jessica, Caucasian mother, Ed, African American father, Derrick, adopted African American son, Terrence, Jessica’s biological biracial son, and Debbie, Ed’s biological biracial daughter. With the listing of the both husband and wife along with the children, it is clear that this family has encounter a few life transitions, trajectories, cohorts, turning points, and life events. Understanding life course perspective will assist with understanding the family dynamics that are displayed within the Moore family. Life transitions, trajectories, cohorts, turning points, life events, along with other terms will be defined and discussed to fully examine the Moore’s family behavior and life events that guided their family’s development. With all of the issues that the Moore family has encountered both Jessica’s and Ed’s marital problems may be seen as the core of their family’s dysfunction, therefore, this will be explained under the life course perspective.

Moore, the author, states that Tony is persistent that his younger brother, Wes, is not following his example of being a drug addict, but instead is staying in school and out of trouble. Still, Tony and Mary’s attempts fail to prevent Moore from doing drugs. Rather than taking Tony’s advice, Wes chooses to follow and copy his older brother, Tony, and both of them ultimately end up being sent to prison for the same

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

John Henry Moore (Colonel John H. Moore) was born on August 13, 1800, in Rome, Tennessee. He ran away from home to and settled in Texas in 1818 until his father brought him back. Afterwards, he returned Texas and became of the first settlers on the upper part of the Colorado River in 1824. During 1823 and 1824, he fought the Indians along the Colorado River and would later go into a partnership with Thomas Gray as one of Stephen F. Austin's original settlers. In August 16, 1824, they later went into a partnership with the title to land currently now located in Brazoria and Colorado counties. He would later marry, lead an expedition and would be part of the Texas Revolution. In September 1835, he was warned of the Mexican attacks and was one

Two people born with the same name in the same neighborhood ending up with totality different fates. They both lived difficult lives but the author Wes Moore ended up being a successful businessman while the other Wes Moore is serving a life sentence in jail. Both boys were born in Baltimore coming from low income families and growing up without a father. They both dealt with drugs and lived in violent neighborhoods but their decisions and actions is what lead them to have totality different fates. Wes Moore made more conscious decisions by staying out of drugs and not jeopardizing his future. While the other Wes Moore choose the drug life and got into a lot of trouble with the police. The outcome of their life today is affected by the decisions

Lillian McConnell lies in a family cemetery plot at Sunnyside. Next to her are her parents, Carl Hetzel McConnell (11/3/1888-8/23/1970) and Lillian Whanita McConnell (9/15/1895-10/13/1981) and her two young brothers both named Carl, one dying in 1922 the other in 1929. What a tragedy for the parents to lose three children at such a young age. Two year old Lillian, known as Ellen, lost her life when a car driven by Reverend C. M. Kilgore, a Baptist minister attending a Baptist convention in Long Beach ran his engine in reverse. When he started backwards he knocked young Ellen down as she was waiting with her mother at the foot of Pine Avenue.

Tobias’s mother was raised by her father and mother and lived pleasantly growing up. After her marriage ended and the misery of her long violent affair, she was determined to be free and to pursue getting rich on uranium. Similarly, Moore’s mother was raised by her father and mother and lived commodiously growing up. Unlike Tobias’s mother, Moore’s mother went to college to pursue a career. A junior in college she married her first husband, but soon left the marriage because of his abusive ways. According to Wes, “his mother vowed never to let another man put hands on her or would she tolerate it in others either.” The day Wes playing hit his older sister, his mother was furious with him. Even though Wes was a young child, she was adamant

On November 14, 1959, in Holcomb, Kansas, the Clutter family was found by their neighbor, a friend of Nancy’s, murdered in the house on their River Valley Farm. Mr. Clutter, his wife Bonnie, and their two children, Nancy and Kenyon, were all found shot to death in their own home. They had been killed by multiple shotgun shots in close range after being tied up. The father was found in the basement with his son. His wife and daughter were strangely tucked in their beds.

In “The Other Wes Moore”, Wes Moore shows that he is knowledgeable. The IB Learner Profile explains a knowledgeable person as someone who explores concepts, ideas, and issues that have significance throughout the world to acquire knowledge. Wes Moore proves that he was knowledgeable by his achievements due to him staying on the right path and realizing that he had to take life more seriously. Wes Moore was awarded with many opportunities because he was knowledgeable. An example of this was after the author started to turn his life around, Wes Moore was interning for Mayor Schmoke while attending John Hopkins, the mayor encouraged Moore to apply for the Rhodes Scholarship for the opportunity to study abroad in South Africa. Wes Moore gained

2. The author Moore describes the culture in the streets with violence, drug dealing, and lack of education. Guys think its cool for them to do drugs, being cool at school, and fighting because it makes them men. Wes was a drug dealer he was once caught selling rock to an undercover cop. Besides dealing them he also did them, “ … Wes held the plastic bag with both hands and poured in nine ounces of cocaine.” (145) The author Wes and the other Wes both tried to act cool about school. Tony always told him, “Yo, you need to take this shit serious, man. Acting stupid ain’t cool!” (27) And the author Wes told the story when he got into a fight but made him sound cool, “... I decided to juice up the story up a little. Or a lot.” (50) Tony told Wes

I would like to take the time to tell you the most awesome news ever! Mr. Matthew Moore has the highest 8th grade GPA out of all the other 8th graders at his school. He will be receiving a special award from Commissioner William Fennoy of District 1 on 5/19/16 at his honors day at Hornsby Middle school at 10 am. If you can make it, I would love to see you there, but if not I understand.

The night was cold and wet, but in the small living room of Phoenix valley, Sweden. The police, and the lynch family were at home.

“The story was handed down to me by my grandfather.” Kele, who was Native American by descent, saw Sally sitting under one of the trees in the front yard. Sally found out Abraham was a doctor who was married to Victoria and had three kids. The bodies of his family were discovered a month after they died when they have been reported missing. The authorities found them lying neatly on their beds either strangled or smothered with a pillow…except for Joseph. The youngest child was found inside the broom closet under the stairs with a broken neck. It seemed he woke up in the middle of the night, saw what was happening and ran to the closet to hide. Abraham found him when he heard a whimper coming from under the stairs. He forced it open and broke his neck. No one knows what happened to Abraham, a few believe he went in hiding, still, others think he killed himself somewhere in the house…his body was never found.