Breaking the Cycle
Introduction
The book “The Other Wes Moore” (Moore) portrays two men from similar neighborhoods and background. The book parallel the lives of each of the Wes’s from childhood to adulthood. The lives of the two Wes Moore is a story of choices and the outcome of each life choice. The author Wes Moore is a youth advocate, Army combat veteran, and social entrepreneur.(Moore) The book is a valuable tool that can be used to educate other how young lives can be changed in an instant from making bad choices. Although, the book gives the reader the impression both Wes’s had the same opportunities; I disagree, the life of these men are very different, because of their family support system and mentoring each one of them received
Analysis
“Studies have shown that a fatherless male and females are prone to …show more content…
This is where Maslow hierarchy of needs come into place, because of fatherless child’s lower level needs are not met, it becomes impossible for child/ adult to fulfill the higher growth level needs. “When boys are in the tween years, their peers have a major influence on the way they think and behave. Because they are similar in age and developmental stage, they are often immature and short-sighted in their thinking and analysis. As a result, peers for tween boys often have undue influence over their thought processes and decision making,” (McKoy) A key theme in The Other Wes Moore, is how much mentoring the boys received. One of the Wes only had his older gang member, drug dealing brother. The other Wes Moore had a grandfather growing up to fill the male role model in his young life. Mentoring has a profound effect of changing the life of young men and women, “through modeling, sharing successes and failures, and providing practical steps to achieve success through good decision making, mentors can fill a role that
Introduction
The book “The Other Wes Moore” (Moore) portrays two men from similar neighborhoods and background. The book parallel the lives of each of the Wes’s from childhood to adulthood. The lives of the two Wes Moore is a story of choices and the outcome of each life choice. The author Wes Moore is a youth advocate, Army combat veteran, and social entrepreneur.(Moore) The book is a valuable tool that can be used to educate other how young lives can be changed in an instant from making bad choices. Although, the book gives the reader the impression both Wes’s had the same opportunities; I disagree, the life of these men are very different, because of their family support system and mentoring each one of them received
Analysis
“Studies have shown that a fatherless male and females are prone to …show more content…
This is where Maslow hierarchy of needs come into place, because of fatherless child’s lower level needs are not met, it becomes impossible for child/ adult to fulfill the higher growth level needs. “When boys are in the tween years, their peers have a major influence on the way they think and behave. Because they are similar in age and developmental stage, they are often immature and short-sighted in their thinking and analysis. As a result, peers for tween boys often have undue influence over their thought processes and decision making,” (McKoy) A key theme in The Other Wes Moore, is how much mentoring the boys received. One of the Wes only had his older gang member, drug dealing brother. The other Wes Moore had a grandfather growing up to fill the male role model in his young life. Mentoring has a profound effect of changing the life of young men and women, “through modeling, sharing successes and failures, and providing practical steps to achieve success through good decision making, mentors can fill a role that