Wes Moore's Life After Making The Right Choices

The most important theme shown in both novels is life choices. I say this because we often see how the life choices they make are often leading them to good or bad paths. Jeanette decides to move out once she was done her junior year in highschool. When she did this her life was stable , she was working and lived with her sister Lori . This life choice that she decided to take leaded her to have a job, a home, and of course later on a husband. Almost at the end Jeannette stated, “but this is where John and I lived and worked, our home - the first house I ever owned “ ( Walls, 287). Here we can see that her life is going fantastic after making the decision of living her parents home to come to New York. At the very end she ended up being with John and owning her own house, after everything she has been through. In the other Wes Moore, we see how both Wes made different decisions which led them to the decisions that changed their life. For example, the author Wes …show more content…
The author Wes life changed after making the right choices! Unlike the other Wes, at a point wanted to change his life since he was tired of what his life was becoming. Wes decided to keep on being on the streets, not going to school, dealing with drugs, and of course being in a robbery where he ends up going to jail. For example, the other Wes states , “ The hands of the state would stay on him for the rest of his life. Wes had spent much of his adolescence incarcerated, and he knew that occasional bids in the pen were part of the game... “ Now Wes’s mind wandered to the long term for the first time. Finally, he could see his future” (Moore, 157). Here we can see how the other Wes isn’t successful because of poor decisions that he decided to make. The paths that these two man selected determined how their lives ended up. Every life choice that we decide to take, can determine where we’ll end