The Other Moore Essay

What is the most important factor to become successful in life? Is it a matter of luck, environment, or big money for education? What kind of advantages anyone should possess in order stay on the right track? The author of the book “ The other Wes Moore” Wes Moore asks these question and answers them. He compares his own life and success with the man with the same name Wes Moore who spends his time in prison for life sentence. The author Wes Moore had advantages over the other Wes Moore like a wise and instructional mother that guided him in education, premature parenthood, and an author 's calm temper.

Where the author 's mother Joy succeeded and the other Wes 's mother Mary did not, both mothers were making their best in order to surround …show more content…
The author has a good calm temper that kept him out of problems. There was not one episode of violence described in the book related to author. In some moments full of tension, where I was anticipating for any outbreaks, the author at young age was able to control the situation and dissolve the conflict without physical abuse. On the contrary, the other Wes Moore was highly explosive. Every single time where, in my view, he should have better stayed calm and thought before action, the other Wes Moore had been grabbing the gun to settle down the issue. Instead of getting out of the world of violence, drugs and irresponsibility, the other Wes Moore was driving farther and farther along that avenue. There was no way to stop that vicious cycle in his mind.

In conclusion, the author benefited enormously from having sensible mother, absence of children before their time, and calm temper. He allowed himself to mature, get education and stay out of bloody battles. Unlike the author, the other Wes spent his early years in the epicenter of drugs, violence, teenage intimate relationship with consequences as unplanned children. His rough puberty years did not allow him to grow and mature, which drove the other Wes Moore to criminal justice