Narrative Essay On The Other Wes Moore

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In my own opinion I believe that the Other Wes Moore has gone past the point of no return when he shoots Ray and gets arrested. “Wes and his friend traded shots and finally heard Ray scream as he fell behind a black Toyota just fifty feet from his house. Wes and his friend stopped running. They saw no movement and figured the job was done.” (Wes Moore 105) Wes stared making many mistakes as a young boy and has little chances of going back and fixing his life. Wes never thought of hi failures as a learning situation. Barbara Corcoran asserts “I would have never discovered online if I hadn’t failed with the seventy-seven thousand dollars and that was my reward” in her Ted Talk. I believe that she makes a good point because once you fail in life

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