What Is Happening At Me?

In Wes Moore’s 2010 book “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates,” two men with the same name, born blocks apart who are raised in an identical poverty and drug plagued neighborhood are examined. What author Wes Moore discovers in his conversations with inmate Wes Moore, is that their lives were remarkably similar growing up. Given their current situations in life, their paths to get there take shape through a series of interchangeable decisions and life events. One Wes through mentorship in decision-making ends up a Rhodes Scholar and decorated war veteran, while the other Wes minus the mentoring ends up in prison serving a life sentence. The age-old cry, “It takes a village,” resonates in Moore’s examination of his mirrored upbringing.

While it isn't made clear what age the main character Tony is in “Tony's Story” by Leslie Marmon Silko, it is clear that he faces two moments that can be considered a loss of innocence. These are when Leon is attacked by the policeman, and when he later kills that same policeman. In the first instance, Tony was faced with an authority figure who acted violently and cruelly in a manner that he was not expecting. This moment taught him of the evil in the world and it led him to associate the policeman and his actions with those of witched. In his mind, it is the policeman, or witch, that has upset the balance in nature and brought the drought upon the land. While Leon keeps talking about his rights, Tony only sees the policeman as an evil

“Tony was exhausted. Tired from the beating he just gave Wes. Tired from repeating himself. ‗If you won‘t listen, that‘s on you. You have potential to do so much more, go so much further. You can lead a horse to water, but you can‘t make him drink right?‘…That was the last time Tony ever tried to talk to Wes about the drug game.” – pgs.

(26) he feels his soul grow under Ultima guidance. One of Tony’s obstacles in life is to become a man. His mother does not want him to become a man but his father argues saying “everything Tony sees and does makes him a man”(37) but Maria says that it is a sin for a boy to grow to be a man by saying that “life destroys the pureness God gives”. (36) but this is not the only diction Tony has to make. His first dream portrays his insecurity about his identity. He has to choose between the two is he a “fine vaquero” or a “farmer-priest”(9) He is confused, on one side its his mother and on the other its his father. Who should he become? He is also confused about which God to believe in. the golden Carp, who he marvels at the “bright golden-pagan God”(114) on the other side the catholic God “who could not forgive”(120) He does not understand why God cannot forgive Narcisio who is a good man while the Virgin Mary can forgive the evil Teronio. Tony is confused throughout most of the novel. Tony believes that the women always forgive, therefore in his child’s logic he thinks women in general do not judge but always forgive. He has a lot of decisions to make. He remembers his dream where he sees Andrew at Rosie’s and remembers what Andrew had told him in his dream that Andrew “will wait and not enter until (Tony) looses (his) innocence”.(85) Tony’s belief that

3). Tony has been in and out of jail since he was an adolescent. He hits, steals, and he destroys property and says he enjoys doing so "because people are stupid". He shows little remorse for his crimes, behaves impulsively, and lacks empathy for the rights and feelings of others.

Tony’s brush with death disturbs him, but he is too focused on helping Ultima lift his uncle’s curse to care. Tony sees evil all around him. The death of Lupito, Narciso, Florence, and Ultima, affects Tony deeply. He begins questioning God’s existence after Narciso’s death. Tony becomes ill due to his conflicting emotions, and his reactions to evil and the breaking of the community’s social contract displays

The first thing i learned about Tony was his family life. Tony is a 16 year old kid whos was born on December 24th 1999 in Mcgee hospital He prestenly lives in Irwin, PA in a ranch home by West Hempfield Elementary. He has a 13 year old brother Shawn. He likes to pick

Well the Tony that we audience are introduced to early on into the show. Mainly because Tony is a captain under Junior and normally would have/should have done anything to rid the family of anyone turning state's evidence to the feds. As well as not caring about local business that are not making the mob money. But he betrays this understanding and the acting head of the DiMeo family for Artie. Which again I understood this betrayal to Junior was Tony’s way of drawing a line in the sand when it came to Artie. Which is every bold on Tony’s part, yet also weird since throughout both season of the show we see Tony do horrible things to his close friends and allies in the name of the DiMeo family. But this relationship/bond with Artie destroys this understanding of Tony’s character. It was here that I began to notice that Tony’s relationship with Artie represented something more for Tony. Even more than a sense of normality within Tony’s chaotic life. What I mean by this is that I saw this relationship to Artie as a representation of Tony’s past and the man he could have been. In layman's terms Artie is Tony’s last connection to life he could have had if he didn’t take up the mantle of a mobster. Which is almost tragic to think about, Tony comes off as a person who will use any and everything to get ahead in life and within the DiMeo family—yet, Tony is not a bad guy and actually had a bright future in

Nevertheless, Tony makes do, successfully managing a distrustful brother and fatherless family. Eventually, she loses her job with Mrs. Harling because she doesn’t spend enough time working, and spends too much time at the town dances. She tries to find other work, but all of her attempts end in failure, and she eventually returns home to work on the farm with Ambrosch. Meanwhile, with Ántonia far from the town, no one is there to stop rumors from being spread about her. Less-than-accepting townspeople tell others that she is “too much of a man”, and “does too much work that was made for a man”. Even

He hugs Hal back, and David can feel the heartbeat pounding through the thin T-shirt, and it's comforting and maybe before Otacon he'd only been annoyed by hugs, but his tipsy mind is allowing him to freely enjoy an embrace and bury his head in Hal's shoulder.

Tony is now most powerful and wealthiest drug lord, but hires hundreds of security to look after him. He also builds a large wall around his house and installs hundreds of Surveillance cameras. He says this helps him sleep at night knowing he’s safe. This shows that Tony is now paying for having so much power. He’s character is now full of anxiety and also paranoid.

ambivalence further increases because as these stars die one by one, he’s left wondering which

Adrien suddenly seems to blush as he says, "I might know exactly how you feel, and I wish you the best of luck," Adrien says, smiling at Vale.

Tony is an indian. In the beginning, you get the impression, that he is a sweet, innocent and caring boy. He’s very helpful but also very naive. Through the story, it gets more and more clear, that there is something mentally wrong with Tony. He keeps believing, that the cop is something that his parents warned him about in his childhood, wich he calls ‘a masked dancer’. His parents told him not to look into the eyes, so in Tony’s head, the cop’s sunglasses equals the masked dancer’s mask. And Tony ends up killing the cop, and telling Leon that everything is O.K., it’s killed, they somethimes take on strange forms. He also compares the cop’s raised billy club to the witch’s raised human-bone in his dream.

him. He's tough: a mans man. You have to like him. The character of Tony