The Other Wes Moore The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his. In the book The Other Wes Moore author Wes Moore tells his readers your future is in your hands. Moore tells his readers that we need to focus on the long term outcome. Moore comes to realize that there is a man who is also named Wes Moore. They are the same age and grew up blocks apart from one another. One name two fates. Both of the Moore boys lived two completely different lives but started out very similar. In my opinion I do believe Wes Moore could have ended up like the Other Wes Moore. Both Moore’s choose their own future. Both Moore’s had a very rough childhood. Both did not have a father figure
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Wes could have done better in school if he had been going when he was supposed to. Wes is now living with his grandparents and his mother is working more than one jobs to support her family. Wes writes ‘it’s tough to do well in school as an eleven year old when you’re picking and choosing which days to go (p.76)” Wes needed someone to be strict with him and make sure he was going to school and he would have been better at school. By living with his grandparents who are low on energy no one was looking after him at a young age. In my opinion he was not to blame for that. He is just a kid he needed someone to force him to do better in school. Soon after Wes stopped attending school he began to find trouble. Wes had been placed in hand cuffs for spray painting. Wes’ mother had been considering sending Wes to military school. Wes never thought she would do it but he came to realize should would. By sending Wes to military school Wes soon found out what respect was. However it took a little while to get use to the …show more content…
I feel like the other Wes Moore lives by that. He never found what he was good at in life which led to him running the streets like his older brother. According to Coyle “you will excel only by maximizing your strengths never by fixing your weaknesses.” By saying this Coyle wants his audience to never focus on our weaknesses we will never overcome them we should only improve our strengths. Both of the Moore’s could have had each other fates. One just looked at the long term of
Wes could have done better in school if he had been going when he was supposed to. Wes is now living with his grandparents and his mother is working more than one jobs to support her family. Wes writes ‘it’s tough to do well in school as an eleven year old when you’re picking and choosing which days to go (p.76)” Wes needed someone to be strict with him and make sure he was going to school and he would have been better at school. By living with his grandparents who are low on energy no one was looking after him at a young age. In my opinion he was not to blame for that. He is just a kid he needed someone to force him to do better in school. Soon after Wes stopped attending school he began to find trouble. Wes had been placed in hand cuffs for spray painting. Wes’ mother had been considering sending Wes to military school. Wes never thought she would do it but he came to realize should would. By sending Wes to military school Wes soon found out what respect was. However it took a little while to get use to the …show more content…
I feel like the other Wes Moore lives by that. He never found what he was good at in life which led to him running the streets like his older brother. According to Coyle “you will excel only by maximizing your strengths never by fixing your weaknesses.” By saying this Coyle wants his audience to never focus on our weaknesses we will never overcome them we should only improve our strengths. Both of the Moore’s could have had each other fates. One just looked at the long term of