Family will help each other through hard times and encourage each other saying that they will make it through not matter how hard things may be. It takes hard work and determination for a kid who grows up around drugs and bad influences to make something good out of their life. They have to strive and try their hardest to stay out of what is going on around them in their neighborhood, in their school, and sometimes in their family. In this book you follow the lives of two very different individuals with the same name . They grow up in a similar situation, but end up going down two very different paths. One gets into the drugs game and ends up spending life in prison while the other becomes a successful businessman and author. Both faced temptations …show more content…
of being able to make easy money, but only one chooses that path. They struggle through hard situations that seem impossible to make it out with a smile on their face. In the book, The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, the author explores the idea of family to develop the theme that family will help each other through hard times and encourage each other telling them that they can make it through no matter how hard things may be. Family knows how tough coping with the lose of a spouse so they will continue to help one another, if not more so through hard times.
Family will do whatever is necessary to do for each other to make sure that all is well and will continue to encourage each other and help them. In the text Alma, the other Wes Moore Grandmother has just passed away and her funeral is taking place. Wes Moore is not born yet and the story is taking place from Wes Moores mother's perspective, Mary. Alma's husband is very upset and struggling to grasp the idea that a lot is changing and now he is going to have to support and provide for the kids by himself now with outtake support or help from his wife. Moore says, "Alma's parents soon moved into the home Alma and Kenneth shared, and didn't leave until the last child was out of the house. Mary was the first of the kids to leave the home" (Moore 23). In this quote it explains how Alma had passed away and her husband was left struggling to support all of the children in the house. As a result of this, Alma's parents moved in with Kenneth to help with the children. They knew what was to come with the death of their daughter. Even though Kenneth and Alma's parents are not blood related her parents still moved in to help their grieving son in law. Alma's parents gave up their home and lives to help Kennith and their grandchildren. They did what needed to be done to make sure that their family was …show more content…
okay. Sometimes people have to admit that help is needed, but that can be hard to do even. During this time of the book Wes Moore, father has just passed away and Wes Moore mother, Joy is not coping very well with his death and is struggling a lot. She decides to reach out for help from a family member. Joy says, "Mom if it's alright, I think we need to move up there. I can't do this alone anymore. My grandmother was thrilled. Before she even answered my mother, she called out to my grandfather, "Joy and the kids are moving up to New York!" (Moore 37). This quote shows that Joy needed help with raising the family after her husband had died and she accepted that and called her mother to ask for her help during this hard time. This shows that Joy's mother was welcoming and willing to help her daughter get through this hard time because she knew that Joy needed help. Her family was there for her and they did not care that they would now have triple the people in their household. They were just happy to help their daughter in need. Families have to make tough decisions sometimes in order to get to a better spot in their life.
These decisions will not be easy for them to do, but they do them because they know how much they will be helping their family in the long run. The other Wes Moore has enrolled in the job corps and he is hoping to turn his life around by going through this program and learning new and valuable skills. He has four daughters with three different women and still has to support and worry about them during this program. He entered the job corps to turn his life around and get out of the drug game because he knows that if he continues down that path it will not end well for him or his family. Moore says, "He had tuned out the conversation around him and had become lost in thoughts about his family. The teacher repeated the question to Wes. All Wes could think about was his daughter. Without a thought about what he was taking on, he announced that he wanted to build her a house" (Moore 143). The other Wes Moore is struggling with the job corps, but still has time to think about what his family may need from him while he is away. He is trying to turn his life around so he can be a better father to his kids that he knows he will have to support when he returns. He is in a tough situation, being away from home for a long time and knowing when you return you are going to have to provide for all these people but that does not phase him. He just wants to build something for his daughter to be
able to have fun with. Wes Moore made the decision to go to the job corps so he could provide a better life for his family and it is hard for him to be away from them while he knows that they are struggling at home. He wants to be with them, but knows he has to finish the corps in order to have a good life. He is going through this for them. Both Wes Moore's go through tough situations weather it is them personally or a family member going through it, but somehow they all get through it because of the support and help from each other. They welcome each other with tough love sometimes, but it all works out in the end because they make it through whatever situation they were in. They do this because they are family and family is supposed to help and support one another no matter what the case may be. They do what they have to do to make sure each other is doing okay in life. This is why family is so important in this book and in life
The book Trouble,by Gary D. Schmidt, is based on the Smith family who lives in Blythbury-by-the-Sea, which is a small, quiet town by the Atlantic Shore. The family believes that if you build your house far enough from trouble, trouble will not be able to find you. Then, abruptly, their life takes a turn for the worse and trouble finds them. Henry, the youngest of the Smith family, and Franklin, the oldest of the Smith boys, planned a trip to climb the mountain of Katahdin, but now, because of the trouble, Henry sets out to climb it with his best friend Sanborn. On this journey, he meets the person who started the trouble in his family, Chay Chouan, who goes with him. The two characters Henry and Chay have characteristics and traits that are the same, but they also have very different personalities and backgrounds and family styles.
Malcolm Gladwell once said, “...people who are outliers—in men and women who, for one reason or another, are so accomplished and so extraordinary and so outside of ordinary experience that they are as puzzling to the rest of us as a cold day in August.” The author, Wes Moore, of the book, The Other Wes Moore, is considered an outlier through the “Gladwellian” lens based off of Gladwell’s book, Outliers. Wes’s story demonstrates objectives that define him as an outlier with the contributions of where he’s from, his advantages, and also his attitude over his ability. These contributions therefore define him as an outlier through the “Gladwellian” lens.
Based on both Wes Moore’s decisions it took them a while to realize the importance of their future, although the other Wes Moore had a tough time learning from his past mistakes. By the time the author was in military school, he understood that his previous choices weren’t beneficial and his actions were the reason why Joy made the choice to send him off to
In The Other Wes Moore, male figures, specifically male role models, play an important part both Wes Moores’ lives and and are eventually what make or break their futures.
Why have the two boys, with the same name and grew up fatherless in the similar poverty-stricken neighborhoods, developed into two dramatically different individuals: a Rhodes Scholar and a convicted inmate? While the book The Other Wes Moore goes to great length to answer the question profoundly, I also mull over just how and why the two Wes Moores have chosen their own paths to the opposed destines. According to the book, environment, family, education, others’ expectation, and opportunities are the primary factors contributing to the two Wes Moores’ failure and success. On the top of those factors, I find that the role models, the supports of their mothers, and the choices they made are surely worth
Two people with two completely different characteristics have something alike. Both Dally and Johnny are mentally tough because of their parents. Johnny and Dally’s parents both do not care for them and could care less about them. For example, during Dally’s childhood he went to jail, been in a gang, and has been in many fights and his dad still would not care for him even if he won the lottery. Dally also talks about his dad's disgrace towards him in the car with Johnny and Ponyboy, “‘ Shoot, my dad don’t give a hang whether I’m in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in a gutter...’”(88). Dally could easily live without his dad and he does for the most part. Dally just hangs around with his friends and stays at their place. Similarly, Johnny's parents use him like a rag doll to blow off steam, “his father always beating him up”(14). The gang knows what happenes in Johnny’s house. Once Ponyboy was witnessing, “Johnny take a whipping with a two-by-four from his old man”(33). Ponyboy talks about how loud and mean Johnny's mom is and,“you can...
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.
In “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates,” written by Wes Moore the author writes about two boys growing up in Baltimore that share the same name and similar backgrounds but end up taking drastically different paths in life due to many varying factors. The author goes on to earn a college degree, become a Rhodes Scholar, a veteran and more while the “other” Wes cannot avoid the inevitable fate of dealing drugs and ultimately spends his life running from the police and in prison. This reflects how both Wes Moore’s became products of their environment as the way a person is shaped and guided in their developmental years does unquestionably play a large role in the type of person they will become as adults. A lot of elements come into play that help to determine a person’s success or failure, but at the end of the day the most important factors are family, education and opportunities.
Wes (the author) has a family who wants to see him succeed. Although Wes didn’t know his father for long, the two memories he had of him and the endless stories his mother would share with him, helped guide him through the right path. His mother, made one of the biggest effects in Wes’s life when she decided to send him to military story, after seeing he was going down the wrong path. Perhaps, the other Wes’s mother tried her best to make sure he grew up to be a good person, but unfortunately Wes never listen. His brother, Tony was a drug dealer who wish he could go back in time and make the right decisions and he wanted Wes to be different than him. He didn’t want his brother to end up like him and even after he tried everything to keep Wes away from drugs, nothing worked and he gave up. As you can see, both families are very different, Wes (the author) has a family who wants him to have a bright future. Most importantly, a family who responds fast because right after his mother saw him falling down the wrong hill she didn’t hesitate to do something about it. The other Wes isn’t as lucky, as I believe since his mother already had so much pressure over keeping her job and her son Tony being involved in drugs. Same thing with Tony, he was so caught up in his own business that no one payed so much attention to
Everyday, there are teens that are putting themselves in unbearable situations. Wether if it is being influenced by others to do drugs or alcohol, both causes are very dangerous. Just as one thinks he is ok, standing away from those situations, is the time when danger will strike, and there will be just a few chances to get out. The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore is written about two boys with the same name growing up in similar situations. Both grow up to be surrounded by crime and substance abuse, and both do in fact have several chances to escape those holdbacks. Crime and substance abuse was common because of the locations that both Wes's grew up, and that was ghettos. In the book, The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, the author explores the
The narrator whose name is unknown finds out that his brother Sonny was incarcerated for the use of and dealing heroin, raised in a society where being afraid of fear is constantly affecting both of their life’s in turmoil. “He was frightening me a little” (Baldwin 19). Fear shaped the older brother in becoming an Algebra teacher, endeavoring to save his younger brother from a lifestyle of street habits, influence specifically on drug abuse. According to the narrator, he expects Sonny to follow his footsteps in finishing an education because “If you don’t finish school now, you’re going to be sorry later that you didn’t” (Baldwin 20), in addition the narrator describes the life of Sonny “weird and disordered” (Baldwin 21). The narrator uses his fear to form a communication with his brother, however Sonny’s decision of freedom in becoming a professional musician, and escaping misfortunate moments is not in communion. Thus, Sonny feels neglected by his older brother’s expectations and judgments based on his own future. “I think people ...
People in their lives may confront different challenges, difficulties, and opportunities; their choices and decisions significantly influence their paths in life. Their abilities to making right choices are determined by many factors, including family, neighborhood, education, personal responsibility, age, environment, religion, media, others’ expectations, etc. Even two people, who have identical names, live similar circumstances, they have two different fates. Wes Moore (2011), in his book “The Other Wes Moore,” tells a story of how and why the other Wes Moore and himself had different lives. Even though the author Wes and the other Wes both grew up in Baltimore, their different choices, which were influenced by their families, friendship,
The book The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton introduces two characters that have similarities and differences, but they are family to one another which will never change. Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston have problems of their own. They may deal with some differently, but they always have each others back. Johnny deals with his problems by being good when he goes through pain everyday. But Dally is not the type of person to behave even when he is upset, instead, he likes to break the law. Johnny and Dally compare and contrast to one another in good and bad ways, but always watch out for one another as family.
This story shows how a family stuck together in hard times with faith and hard work that they would get through it. Sometimes people may have the same opportunities, but it is very likely all will have different outcomes. The risky nature of Walter may have put the family in a bind with his investment falling through, but what they did still have was each other. At least now, Walter especially, has the opportunity to learn from his
Three Little Words is based on a true story by a girl named Ashley Rhodes-Courter. This book talks about Ashley who went to many different foster homes and wasn’t allowed to live with her birth mother. She was a happy until she was taken away from her mother and put into a foster home. It began when Ashley, her mom, Dusty and her brother Luke were on their way to Florida until they got pulled over by the cops. The cops took Dusty away for not having license plate. A few days later they took Luke and Ashley away from their mother and put them into a foster care. Luke and Ashley didn’t stay in one home for a long time. One foster home really made a bad affect in Ashley and Luke’s life, the Moss family. They abused the two siblings and beat them every day. Ashley never believed in having a perfect place to live. The theme of the book is love, family, life and home. Love because nobody ever said they loved Ashley, family because nobody was ever there to say they cared about her, life because she needs to move to happy healthy family and home to make her feel comfortable. I really enjoyed this book because it made me realize that I have my family and some people do not have anyone..