What Is Two Fate In The Other Wes Moore

In The other Wes Moore: One name, two fates (Moore, 2010), Wes is an African American child that has never had a fatherand grew up in a bad neighborhood in Baltimore. Bernard, Wes’ father, chose not to be there because he “spent most of his time searching for himself at the bottom of liquor bottles” (p. 23). On the other hand, Mary, Wes’ mother, is a hardworking mother that tries to provide for her children, but fails to give them correct supervision and lead Wes down the correct pathway. Meanwhile, Tony is Wes’ brother that continues to persuade Wes to focus on school and not to get into trouble, but Tony fails to show Wes how he is supposed to succeed. The Moore family supplies insufficient role models for Wes.
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It was very important to Mary to get her bachelor’s degree (p. 17). The night she received the letter denying her grants, she decided to go out with some friends to a nightclub. According to the other Wes, “Mary was doing what she always did to celebrate, commiserate, blow off steam, or just to kill boredom. She and a couple of her friends would head out to Thirty-second Plaza, a popular nightclub, where Mary knew the owner” (p.19). Mary did not have a good method for coping with stress so she would often turn to clubbing, which provided Wes with a bad example for dealing with life’s stresses. Then, things took a turn for the worse. Mary’s part time job developed into a full time job, along with a couple other jobs. As a result, she was rarely home and Wes did not have any supervision in the house because Mary was trying to provide for him and her other son. Four months after moving to Baltimore City, the book stated that “Wes had no …show more content…
For example,Mary caught Wes drunk in his bed after skipping school. She walked into his room and asked him how he was doing very loudly. Then when Wes tried to tell her to be quiet, she only talked louder and scoffed at him. Before leaving his room, she managed to point out how badly that he felt after drinking and warned him to stay away from it (p. 59-62). In addition, while Mary was at work, Wes had gotten into selling drugs. Mary started to get suspicious because he was able to afford to buy brand new Michael Jordan tennis shoes. Wes had a couple shoeboxes hidden under his mattress filled with anything from pills to cocaine. When his mother had found it, she flushed four thousand dollars’ worth of drugs down the toilet and laid the two shoe boxes back on his bed. Then, Wes confronted his mother about how much money that she flushed down the toilet. Mary did not seem too concerned about his arising issue, she remained confident in her standards for Wes. Mary continued by telling Wes that by bringing those drugs into the home he was putting their family in danger. She told him that he would no longer be having the drugs in her home and that she would check his room regularly to make sure of it