Wes Moore Life Analysis

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Both of the wes moores lives were different and similar in lots of ways. but one choose the right way for life, and the other took a risk and choose the wrong way in life. These two people are similar because they both had low income, lived in poor places and grew up poor. The wes moore that choose the right thing to do srrn where he was heading if he did not stay in school, so he choose to finish high school and get a good job to make some type of money to move on with his life. However some people cannot learn things as fast as others. The other wes moore choose to sell drugs, stay in the streets and stick up places. But it took wes to go to jail and for his brother to get killed for him to realize that he needed to stay in school …show more content…
his brother tried to tell him to stay away from the streets and to go to school, but wes still would not listen to him. the other wes moore grew up the same way , around drugs, people and family members getting killed, robbed, jumped and so on. The difference with this wes is that he knew what he wanted to do. so he makes a change early, this wes attends school and gets his education because most of the people that he knew did not finish high school so he wanted to be different. now the Wes that had went to jail , it was hard for him to make a change because he was more involved in the streets and the gangs. After his mother sent him off to military school then wes began to get into more trouble, someone had gave him a map to the train station but it had the wrong directions so he could get into trouble. so wes had nothing to do next so he called his mother to try to go home , but his mom was not letting him because he was always getting into trouble with the law. the main reason that i am talking about this is because both of the wes moores had it hard and the Wes that is in jail made really bad choices and messed up his life he killed , robbed, jumped and did lots of things that he was not supposed

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