Progress Report The Other Wes Moore is about two men, who have the same name, Wes Moore, grew up not even miles away from each other, West Baltimore, both lost their father, and they still had two completely different fates. Wes Moore, the author, got send to military school and join the Air Force. The Other Wes Moore will spend every day of his life in prison for a murder of a police men. The other Wes says he didn’t do the murder even though there is major evidence pointing his way that proves that he did do the murder. I think it is very, very interesting on how their lives became very different. I feel if you change on thing in each of their lives, it can become completely different of each other. I feel if Wes’s Father did not die, he would have ended up like his friends did behinds bars. On the other side, if The Other Wes didn’t go back to drugs after he had gotten his GED, maybe he …show more content…
would have not ended up the way he has did. I think it was a little of both Circumstance and Choices that had them end up the way that they did. I liked being put in a group were everyone knows what the main idea of the book.
I think that the literature circles let me see the other people in my groups point of view. It have really prepared me to understand and read the book. When we first read the introduction, my job was that I was the illustrator. I drew a picture of Wes Moore talking to The Other Wes Moore while The Other Wes Moore was in prison. The second time we met I was the summarizer. I think that the summarizer was the best job because it gave everyone else in the group an understanding what was read if they did not understand by their self’s The third time we met I had the of so important job as the superhero I like to call, Vocabulary-Man. Vocabulary-Man’s duty was to help his literature circle citizens by takings out all the hard words and clarify them with definitions. I think that Vocabulary-Man help the citizens of his literature a lot and gave them new meanings for words. The fourth and last time we met, I was the Producer. I wrote down everyone’s predictions and they we all or very close the
same. I feel that I meet the standard that was set. I had all my papers everyday ready and there. I had. My assignments were never late and I have my notes. I had help from Jackie but I feel that I did this very well and I was on task most of the time.I worked well in the group and was very productive and very cooperative. My group also meet the standard. We worked well, we gave each other’s ideas. We were on task and very productive most of the time. We met all the objectives. We then planned for the next meeting.
Meanwhile the other Wes tried to get his life straightened out when he was with Cheryl and became a father of four children. The author illustrates this point when he states “listening to my mother talk about sacrifice, I had no idea what my grandparents had given up.” Meaning the five minute phone call with his mom changed the way he thought of military school. Also, when Wes had told Levy “I’m done, man” and he added on to say “I want to get out. Do something different with my life.” That’s when Levy introduced him to job corps and Wes agrees to join the program. The significance of the phone call is to show that Wes realized that it was selfish of him to not stop and think of how his mom came up with the money to put him in military school and asking her to take him out but, then his mom explained him that his grandparents had other plans for the future but they gave it up because they believed the school will change Wes. The other Wes Moore changed for his children, he hated the
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
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
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.
In the book, The Other Wes Moore it is difficult to believe the great similarities in the lives of the two Moores, who share a name and other aspects of life. The two were raised fatherless and were born in the late 1970’s in the neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. They also happen to have encountered similar experiences when growing up, but at one point one of them became a criminal and the other a scholar (the author of the book). The author of the book seems to be interested in the similarities of the two boys as opposed to their different experiences. The story is interesting and makes one imagine what would have become of the writer if he did not by any chance come across the people who guided him to become what he finally became, the little changes in their destinies shaped out their final end. Perhaps the writer aims at helping the reader understand the significance of one’s upbringing to what finally becomes of them in the future (Moore, 2011).
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
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?
I think it did a great job of showing how a family can come to view addictive and abnormal behavior as normal. I would recommend this movie to friends. I feel that it gives great insight into the dynamics of how the disease of alcoholism can trickle down the family tree affecting everyone it touches in such profound ways. Other than the lack of physical abuse I could see myself playing most of the roles the kids did as far as lost child and hero, I remember trying to fulfill most of those roles when I was younger trying anything from trying harder in school to trying to do chores to perfection in the hopes that I could through my works keep my parents from drinking. Thankfully as I got older I came to understand that their drinking was their illness not mine and until they decided they had enough I could do nothing to help them, but love and pray for
“I guess it’s hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances” (Moore 67). This is a powerfully central theme to the book The Other Wes Moore, written by Wes Moore. For the two men this book is about, it all begins with a wide-open future. The mothers that gave birth to them and the influences they had, along with their own powerful choices, sealed their fate . People don’t ever stop growing or improving and the two Wes Moore’s are no different. Throughout their lives, they are constantly changing and in some places calling the shots. One chose correctly, and one did not.
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.
In a world dominated by technology, reading novels has become dull. Instead of immersing into books, we choose to listen to Justin Bieber’s new songs and to scroll through Instagram posts. We have come to completely neglect the simple pleasures of flipping through pages and getting to finally finish a story. Sherman Alexie and Stephan King’s essays attempt to revive this interest in books that has long been lost. They remind us of the important role that reading plays in our daily lives. “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me,” for instance, demonstrates how being literate saved the narrator from the oppressive nature of society. The author explains that even though he was capable of reading complex books at an astonishingly young
... could identify with Holden. One strength of the Literature Circle format was that while reading this book, I was able to discuss with other reading the same thing. We were able to talk about parts of the book we thought were important or that we didn't understand, while a weakness of it was that it was too short. I liked working on the point of view and art section the most, both because they were easily understandable and fun to do. The one I liked least working on was the summarizer, because it was difficult for me to find key points of the section we read. One thing I learned from the Literature Circles was that its easier to understand aspects of a novel when your reading and discussing it with other people. There were many lessons I learned from readingthis book, but one major thing was that the loss of a loved one can really effect someone's outlook on life.
They both grow up in a similar environment and was raised by a single mother. Author Wes can see how the other Wes 's life went and saw that there were Decisions and actions that were taken that made them made them into the people they become. American people are always talking about “keeping up with the Jones 's” and “the grass is greener on the other side”, and most people don 't ever know about a person who shared their name and grew up in the same environment. So it makes sense that if a person becomes aware of a person like that, who shared a name and grew up in the same environment, they want to know more about what that person 's life was
One phrase that comes to mind when I think of one of the themes in “The Other Wes Moore” is “Keep Calm and Carry On”. Persistence plays a huge role in both of the Wes’s lives, as well as mines. During the author’s time at Valley Forge he realized that it was going to take nothing but continuance through his hard adjustment at the school, while the “other” Wes had to realize that no matter how he did it, or what it risk were at hand, his job as a father was to provide for his family.