Reflection On The Other Wes Moore

In the Other Wes Moore book there were so many different highs and lows of the book. To me it felt like a roller coaster going up and down. The book has taught me many things that could easily change my life. Some of those would be respect cops no matter what, work hard, and don’t give up no matter what someone tells you. Now I am going to explain why these have affected me so much. The first big thing for me is respect cops no matter what. It seem that now a day’s people have little respect to cops and this is wrong. In the book the Other Wes killed a cop and is in jail for that. I feel that if he would have not killed a cop he would still be out right now. I personally think that cops keep us safe every day and they need appreciation for what they do. The Other Wes was on his way to being a good persona then something bad happened. I think that when something bad happens that brings you down you need to get back up and try harder instead of doing it the easy way like he did. This brings me to my next topic work hard at everything you do. …show more content…
In the book both Wes’s had a hard child hood but one worked harder than the other and made himself into something. I think both of them could have been something one might have been better but through hard work the Other Wes could have had a decent job and could have had a family and a house. To me that is success not having a lot of money because when you have a family even through the hard times you have someone to fall back to in some sense. I am a very hard working person and I have had to work for everything I have ever got. This to me is the best way of life because when you get stuff for free you have no sense of work. This leads into my next topic don’t give up because when you are hardworking you don’t give