When former president Barack Obama stated that “[w]here you start should not determine where you end up” (as qtd. in “55 Quotes” 4), he acknowledged the common ability of most to challenge their environment and decide their future for themselves. This philosophy holds true to Moore, author of The Other Wes Moore, but perhaps falters in light of the novel’s titular character, Wes. Sharing the same name, upbringing and affinity , the two’s similarities begin to disintegrate during the events of Chapter 4: Marking Territory, in which Moore uses a number of literary crafts to stress this divergence. While both Weses struggle to break their exasperatingly long sequences of repeated mistakes, the author uses the frantic sentence type and structure
