Short Story The Other Wes Carver

because of the money but she wasn’t going to deal with it anymore.The second and last father had passed away when Author Wes was only 3 years old. This really haunted her whole life because she was completely in love and changed for the better because of him, this tragedy of hers also helped her open her mind more. Joy’s reactions were not like Mary’s. Joy accepted the truth about Author Wes when she found out he was getting into problems and she warned him. Author Wes never took her as serious. “I knew my mother was considering sending me away, but I never thought she’d actually do it.”(87) So as much as Mary loved her son, she did whatever it took to get him straightened out. Unlike Joy, Mary didn’t want anything to do with what her Other Wes had done, but get it off her vision like that was all Mary needed to make her Other Wes better. When Mary found the drugs in Other Wes room, she flushed it down the toilet and basically told him she didn’t want to …show more content…
Violence became a habit and a power of respect. Whenever somebody hurt you, you were expected to send a message regarding almost death, so that the crews in the street would be afraid of you. “If someone disrespects you, you send a message so fierce that they won’t have the chance to do it again. It was Murphy homes law and Other Wes took it to heart.” (PG 33) This leads them to think they have become men because of the respect they get. Next, the author describes drugs and how this affects young boys leading to a bad situations or death their whole life. What makes this even worst is that even as young as seven you could yell out a name, to let the crews know the cops were around was a job and as they get older it took them to harder positions including, the hitters, housemen, and the muscle.This is where young boys see older boys or have a relative that deals drug dealing like Wes’s brother Tony. They start to realize as they get older that