Overcoming Obstacles In Wes Moore's Life

Wes had A working mother who wanted the best for her son. Wes Moore’s mother was raised by college-educated parents, and she spent her life working and struggling to achieve things for herself and her family. She moved two times in an effort to find stable, safe place for her kids to grow up, and she worked several jobs so she could afford to put her kids into private schools. When it appeared that Moore was going to fall into the thug lifestyle, she sacrificed economically and emotionally to put him into a military school. In short, she simply refused to allow herself or her kids to succumb to the conditions and temptations that surrounded them. In the end, it comes down to forks in the road of time. At some critical points in his youth, wes went down one path, mostly due to the influence of his mother and has become more successful due to what his mother influenced him to do. “ Wes said to me in one of our conversations Your father wasn't there because he couldn't be. My father wasn't there because he chose not to be,'" said Wes. "It is a really interesting point. And the hole we know boys feel growing up without their fathers, you find kids will spend so much time and energy trying to fill that hole, and unfortunately kids look to very dangerous ways of filling it. That void cannot be overstated and the importance of kids having loving parents and guardians because they will help shape decisions made later on.” This quote is important because it talks about the differences between why they didn't have male role models in the beginning of their …show more content…
If joy wouldn’t of been this persistent of having her children succeed, wes could have turned out in prison to but his mother influenced him to become a better person and because of joy being the good mother that she is, Wes has turned out to be the youngest commander in the