Being an outsider can have many negative effects on a person, such as hindering a person’s level of participation and their ability to function in a community. The harmful labels and prejudices against a person, group, or race can keep a person from having the same opportunities as those around them, effectively preventing their participation. Unfortunately, there are many examples of this in the book The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore and the Spiegel online article, “Europe’s Unwanted People.”
In The Other Wes Moore, the author Wes and his family had often been outsiders in school, making participation and learning harder. On page eight, he described how his mother, Joy, moved to the Bronx from Jamaica and how “She studied the other kids at
The Other Wes Moore is a book talking about two different men with the same name,Wes Moore. They were both raised up by a single mother and live in the same decaying city, Baltimore, where there are surrounded by drug and alcohol. However, the author Wes Moore’s parents completed their education and have a good job while his grandparents also were well-educated. But the other Wes Moore’s parents didn’t graduate from college, his mother tried to get the scholarship but failed, and his father left high school and don’t have a job either. This two Wes Moores both grew up with their mother. The author Wes’s father died for disease while the other Wes’s father left his family. With this situation, they went to the same direction, being absent from
It’s in these subtle differences that one can identify where it went wrong for the Other Wes Moore. The reason that there was no father figure is drastically different, the author's father died when Moore was
In “The Other Wes Moore”, by Wes Moore, the author takes the readers through his life growing up as well as the life of someone who was a stranger to him during his childhood but turned out to be a huge part of his life later on. His name was also Wes Moore and both he and the author grew up in poverty and did not have the best childhood. Although they grew up similarly, their adulthoods were the polar opposite. The author Wes Moore became the top in his class, a Rhodes scholar, and studied at Oxford University to later become very successful. On the other hand, the other Wes Moore is in prison for the rest of his life for a robbery and murder. How did these two grow up so similarly, yet had completely different adulthoods?
The story of two men growing up in the same neighborhood with similar backgrounds with the same name and eerily similar circumstances that leads and ultimately has each character ending up in very different places in life. Taking completely different paths to their futures is the setting of this story “The Other Wes Moore”. The way a person is shaped and guided in their developmental years does undoubtedly play a huge role in the type of person they will become in life. The author Wes does a good job of allowing you the ability to read this story and the circumstances surrounding the character his mother joy played such an important role in his success, while comparing the roll of Mary the other Wes’s mother. Both boys grew up with strong, hardworking black women in their lives and yet it still allowed for two completely different journeys. I think the lack of fathers and having not so good male role models was also a contributing factor.
Throughout the book, The Other Wes Moore we learned about the lives of two young kids who unexpectedly share the same name but like everyone else have totally different life’s. This book explores the concepts that deal with a person’s path in life and gives us an understanding of which factors are the ones that greatly influence the type of person we will become. I believe that the factors that have a bigger impact on our life paths are; the environment we live in, our family and friends.
Social “outcasts” often believe that they are too different to fit in with society. However, they fail to realize that they posses a gift-- the ability to see the world in an entirely new perspective. Mehmet Murat Ildan’s assertion is correct since different viewpoints and actions are likely to become noticed by society, thus blessing the individual.
I was once told that our social identities are similar to the lens of glasses, meaning that depending on which social identity we are presenting to society, we view the world differently depending on this ‘lens’. My social identity has given me a unique viewpoint and a special approach to life, in that I have the ability to acknowledge and empathize with the struggles of certain communities, because at one point in time that social inequality has most likely afflicted members of my social group. As for much of history, individuals have been persecuted because they, like me, are members of minority racial groups. My social location has also allowed for me to deeply comprehend the fact that social inequalities are not the result of the individual shortcomings of disadvantaged populations, but an unequal system that has resulted in certain groups being advantaged and certain groups being
The concept of belonging and how it’s conveyed is through the connections to people, places, groups, communities and the wider world. For someone to feel that they belong, they must feel the support of friends and family. Barriers also exist for people not to belong to a group or society and can lead to negative repercussions. This is explored both in Jane Harrison play “Rainbows End” and “The Little Refugee” by Anh Do and Suzanne Do. Both texts explore the stages of a physical connection to a place, while being alienated, from the desire of not being accepted for being different of unalike.
In The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, many people were able to grasp ahold of the author Wes’s life and help him get steered into the right direction. I feel that his mother, Joy, had the biggest impact on his life and meant the most for him. “When we moved to New York, she worked multiple jobs, from a freelance writer for magazines and television to a furrier’s assistant- whatever she could do to help cover her growing expenses (47).” Joy was a very hardworking woman. She worked not one but two jobs to cover her expenses, her kids expenses, and to help her parents out. She did this because she wanted what was best for her children. This later comes back to make Wes respect his mother for all that she has provided and sacrificed for him to get all that he did.
The two ultimate choices to send him to a private and a military school, plus Moore’s own choice to not pursue a career in the NBA but to stay in school were three powerful choices that shaped him to become the man he is today. On the other hand, Moore’s destiny is one that is striking differently from the other Wes Moore’s destiny. As previously stated, these two boys who share a similar identity and started in the same circumstances ended up in two discrete places, due to the decisions they made, and what their fates had in store for
Wes Moore Paper Richelle Goodrich once said, “To encourage me is to believe in me, which gives me the power to defeat dragons.” In a world submerged in diversity, racism and prejudice it is hard for minorities to get ahead. The novel “The Other Wes Moore” is a depiction of the differences that encouragement and support can make in the life of a child. This novel is about two men, with the same name, from the same neighborhood, that endured very similar adversities in their lives, but their paths were vastly different. In the following paragraphs, their lives will be compared, and analyzed from a sociological perspective.
The definition of an Outsider changes to what the person thinks. In my opinion, an outsider means someone who does not fit in and is a person that not many people want to communicate with. The examples for this are endless and in almost everything in media, there is an outsider apart of it. One of these examples is from a show called "Once Upon a Time" . The outsider's name is Emma and her whole life she has been in adoption centers and foster homes. One day she gets adopted by a family, but with the two children already there. Emma feels left out and that she doesn't belong because she doesn't relate to the family and agrees that the events that happened changes how she feels about the family. Another example of being an outsider is from the
Are outsiders simply those who are misjudged or misunderstood. I think believe that outsiders are simply misjudged or misunderstood. For example in the Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Gregor the main character finds himself to be transformed into a bug after waking up from bad dreams. His family neglects him and he feels like he's an outsider. I think that his family misjudged him because they treat him like he has no feelings but he does. Bringing me to my first example.
The feeling of being an outsider is not a feeling that humans look forward to. However, it is commonly felt by most people around the world. Being an outsider is when you are in a place or a group of people in which you are not like all the others. This could be the case in social classes, cultures, or inside of a family. School and work environments have substantial amounts of people of different races or religions or social classes. Therefore, most students either can feel like an outsider or witness a person who is. People all around the world can be outsiders. This feeling is not limited to a certain group of people. As shown in Pearson Realize in unit 2, being an outsider has been, and will continue to be, a universal feeling.
Being an outcast in our society in today’s world is very common. Many people are outcasts, and it is not a good thing for our community. When people do not fit in, they usually do not do anything to make themselves fit in, so for some people being an outsider can last longer than a small period of time; instead, it could last a lifetime. Many people feel the same about being an outcast, yet nobody ever speaks up about it or does anything that will permanently change society. Everybody experiences being an outsider in some way, for it is a universal feeling that everyone experiences at some point in life.