The Other Wes Moore is a narrative story about two young men with the same name, brought up in similar background and end up with different fates. The author’s purpose is to examine how two people with the same background can end up completely with different lives. The book narrative the lives of the two young men right from their early age till they become what they are today. The first part is about their family background, their environment and how the two men were brought up with no father.…
The Other Wes Moore Claim Writing I disagree with the review’s author that class was the determining factor on why Author Wes and Prisoner Wes’ lives turned out the way they did. Access to money and class was most certainly not the only determining factors to how the two Wes’s turned out. Social class and money do not equate to parental involvement. There are as many instances of uninvolved upper class parents as there are lower class parents. Upper class children use drugs too. Author…
statement about the other Wes Moore was completely true when he said “That’s what [The Other Wes Moore] is all about. Two people with virtually identical lives, the only difference between them being the choices they made. Their choices made all the difference” (Keenum). The Other Wes Moore is a novel about two people that grew up in the same neighborhood, however, had completely different outcomes. The Author, Moore had the better outcome in the story and the other Wes Moore did not turn out so…
chapters of The Other Wes Moore the reader is able to see the diverse circumstances that will shape the lives of the two Wes Moore’s, such as their families, friends, and their enviorment. At the beginning of the book we meet two young boys one is the author who has both a mother and a father who love and protect him, while the other Wes Moore was given the immense responsibility of being the man of the house at a young age. At the beginning of the book we meet the first Wes Moore he has just…
Therefore, I am a product of my environment I grew up in. In the book The Other Wes Moore: One Name,…
professor would have been thought to have more authority and this student would not have disrespected him so plainly or acted so rudely. For example, had Moore’s male colleague Tony Hope been the one to catch James Cox plagiarizing, Cox most likely would have been a little more submissive and respectful of the situation. Moore, being a woman, is not seen as having such authority. At one point in the story it is stated, “Students cheated more often in her classes than those of her male…
life circumstances, and the other became another statistic. Being in a challenging situation is a way to test one’s character, and often your ability to be a leader. The common read, The Other Wes Moore, reveals multiple different leadership styles through different characters. Colonel Bratt, Joy, Westly, Tony, and Mary, depending on their circumstances and relationships, are defined by their leadership roles, actions, and positions. These characters…
Failure doesn’t always mean success. Success comes from hard work, but to get to success you could’ve had a failure at one point. One thing could lead into another, but the choice would have to be made by you. Discovering Wes Moore is a nonfiction book that compares the author Wes and the “other” Wes, where the other Wes is serving a lifetime sentence in jail. The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine, the tragedy is that my story could’ve been his”. Although, both Wes's got to…
found a serious of article about an planned armed robbery that ends with a kill of an off duty police officer name Bruce Prothero, the perpetrator were two brothers and one of them has the same name as the writer. Wes Moore the writer was compares his life with the other Wes Moore and questioning himself trying to figurate, if the story will be opposites, where the writer will be incarcerated and the…
post-apocalyptic world filled with walkers and opposite groups of survivors, and they are often more terrible than the walkers themselves. Phew! Yes, that is "THE WALKING DEAD". The same, developed by Frank Darabont for AMC and named by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard, is now stepping into it's 8th season. Seems interesting, right? Definitely yes. If you Walk towards *The Walking Dead*, you are going to see Rick Grimes awakening from coma by discovering a world overrun by zombies.…