The Other Moore Analysis

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Bethany Hamilton, a champion Hawaiian surfer, was bitten by a shark in 2003 that took her arm off, jeopardizing anything she had planned for the future. Hamilton had never been someone who gave up, so she pushed through and and two years later, she won first place in the Explorer Women’s Division of the NSSA National Championship. Hamilton reacted to her struggles in an outstanding way, much like the characters in the novels The Scarlet Letter and The Other Wes Moore. Reaction to Mistake is common theme in both, The Other Wes Moore and The Scarlet Letter, due to how they display the crafts of Imagery and Stream of Consciousness.
Imagery is a craft used in writing that is very prominent throughout, both, The Scarlet Letter and The Other Wes

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