The Other Wes Moore

In the other Wes Moore it’s about one name but two different fates. It describes how both Wes Moore’s started life started and how it is now. Both started in bad steps Wes Moore the author was sent to military school and put his life back on track and how the other Wes Moore continued his drug life and now he is serving life sentence. I believe that the other Wes Moore could have done something different to have a better life and not end up in prison serving life sentence.

The Other Wes Moore is an autobiography by Wes Moore: who stumbled upon another man with a name that was a carbon copy of his. Curious, Wes Moore decided to research this man’s past only to find out that they had grown in similar neighborhoods and with identical backgrounds (both lacking a father figure). Except, their fates were entirely different and in each story a turning point occurred that ushered greatness for one but desolation for the other.

The purpose of The Other Wes Moore is to give readers a look on how one can be successful in a world full of failure and bad people without getting involved and jeopardizing their future. In this book by Wes Moore he gives the reader background knowledge of both Wes Moore’s childhood, which caused them to be the person they are today. The environment you grow up in, expectations held by adults in your childhood and the amount of education you receive can justify one future when they grow up. Throughout the Other Wes’s life he lived in gang afflicted and urban neighborhoods.

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

People make life changing decisions everyday without even realizing it and you never know if one decision will determine the outcome of your life. The author of the book The Other Wes Moore is Wes Moore. This story is about both of the Wes Moore's and their completely different lives. In this story both Wes's face much different conflicts and also have completely different paths they take. In the book, The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, the author explores the idea of life choices to develop a theme.

“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.

A person’s success or failure can be determined by their environment, education, choices; a number of different things. The autobiography The Other Wes Moore takes a look at two boys with the same name and eerily similar circumstances who end up in very different places in life. Wes Moore spoke at convocation about his book and what he hoped that people would get from it. In the book he says “The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.” (Moore xi). These two men didn’t share the same fate because they each made a choice about what they wanted their life to become. The book truly demonstrates how the choices you make, make you. One Wes

The Other Wes Moore is a book about two young African-American lives that share the same name, Wes Moore. Both Wes Moores grew up with similarities, they both grew up in the same hometown. One of the Wes Moore is free and the other one is spending his life in jail. They both grew up without fathers. The author's father died in front of him when he was just three years old and the other Wes Moore barley knew his dad. The Author's father wasn’t there because he couldn’t be, and the other Wes Moore, father wasn’t there because he chose not to be. Both mothers were working hard towards setting their families and to support and care for their sons.

The reasoning as to why I believe the other Wes Moore could have went down a path to success is if the other Wes Moore had the same family support as the author Wes Moore and if his brother who had a big influence on Wes, was not involved in the drug game. While both Wes Moore’s are both fatherless, the author Wes Moore was a lot luckier than the other Wes Moore, because he had his grandparents to help raise him. With the support of his grandparents, Wes had someone to look after him and also help steer him in the right direction if needed. His grandparents gave Wes and his sisters a set of rules and chores to do every single day. Compared to the other Wes Moore, he did not have any sort of discipline or rules to go by in his house due to the fact his mother and brother were never really at home. Furthermore, with the other Wes Moore, he only had his mother and his brother Tony, who both were not a good influence on him at all. The other Wes Moore looked up to his brother and wanted to be exactly like Tony. For example, when Wes got into a small

In the book The other Wes Moore, the author Wes Moore tells a story of two young men, both named Wes Moore, living in an impoverished city and working their best to support themselves and their families. The author Wes Moore grew up in the Baltimore City with his sister and his single mother, who worked tirelessly to support her family after her husband passed away. Due to lack of finances, Wes’s mother decides to leave Baltimore with her children, and live with her parents in Bronx, NY. Bronx increasingly started being controlled by drug-related activities.

“This is a story of two boys living in Baltimore with similar histories and an identical name: Wes Moore. One of us is free… The other will spend every day until his death behind bars...” (Moore, XI) In The Other Wes Moore, the author, Wes Moore, and the other Wes Moore both grew up in similar, yet different, circumstances and had completely different outcomes. This captivating narrative demonstrates how the choices you make, make you. In the introduction, the author Wes Moore validates this statement by saying, “The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.” (Moore XI) The author, Wes Moore, shows the readers that a person’s environment, circumstances, education (or lack

The Other Wes Moore is a novel by Wes Moore that is about two men that live in a similar situation, but their outcomes are completely different. Both men grew up around gangs and drugs, each of those factors affected them differently. The Other Wes gets involved with drugs and joins a gang, while the Author Wes goes to military school and becomes a decorated combat veteran. Many outside factors also contribute to these outcomes, but each Wes had to allow that to happen. No two people are the same it is just how they let the world change them, that decides how they live. Children who

There are about 7.5 billion people on Earth and out of all those people, no two are the same. This is due to many factors, some of which include geography, culture, and religion. In the book, The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, the author gives us an insight to his life and the life of another person who shares the same name. Not only do they share the same name, but they both also grew up in Baltimore around the same time. The author’s goal or purpose in writing this book was to determine how two people who have the same name and who also grew up in the same city end up having such different lives and accomplishments. But in the end of the book, the author states that he himself doesn’t know the answer to his question.

The novel The Other Wes Moore is a information book about two boys with the same name that grew up blocks away from each other. These two boys share similar characteristics like growing up fatherless, and getting involved with the wrong crowd of people at one time, but one's life took a drastic turn for the better and one for the worst. The author of the novel get in contact with the “bad” Wes Moore in order to learn more about the significant changes in his life that made him follow down a way different path. From the beginning one can tell that the author has certain feelings about Wes which makes the book bias. The author is very positive when talking about Wes and does not make him seem like the criminal he is. One could tell that he has a soft spot for him but he is not portraying Wes in the way he should be. Everyone knows the ending of Wes’ story but it seems like the author is trying to write it like something might change.

Within the bestseller The Other Wes Moore, The author grows up with a loving family who calues good works and integrity. With the death of his father at the age of three, Wes struggles behaviorally and is sent away to Military School. It is assumed thata militrary school saved his life. He was able to immerse himself in a new life with