Wes Moore Analysis

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1. Briefly describe each of the Wes Moore’s. Include information you believe is important to their life path (community, family life, big decisions, etc.). Wes the author was born in Baltimore Maryland to father journalist and mother who was Jamaican. He watched his father’s death and afterward his mother moved the family to the Bronx. There his grades began to take a plunge and he began to be involved with the wrong crowd. His mother, Joy, took things head on and decided to enroll him to a military academy which assisted in his success today. The other Wes Moore (Imprisoned) had a fatherless childhood. His mother, Mary, wanted to pursue a higher education but do to funds she was unable to to continue went funding was cut for various programs. …show more content…

"The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his." To what extent do you think this is true? What, ultimately, prevented their stories from being interchangeable? Both characters had grown up in “ghetto” areas not far from one another and had pretty similar backgrounds. Which created the possibility that the author (Wes Moore) could have had the same fate as his incarcerated friend. What assisted in the prevention of the switch of fates would be the fact that we all have the ability to make wise decisions and it is only up to the individual to determine what will be the next step will be. 3. Do you think one Wes Moore had a stronger family unit or a better support system or money while growing up? How can having a strong support system change a child’s …show more content…

4. “Do you think we’re all just products of our environment?” The author posed this question to Wes who answered by saying that we are all products of others’ expectations that we take on as our own." To what extent do the expectations of others control our outcomes? To what extent should we hold ourselves accountable for our own actions? Well there is always the fate aspect in everything that occurs in our lives but majority of the outcomes created from the individuals own decisions. It is up to the individual to determine what can occur, if they do one thing then something will be the outcome. A side from that, there is always the possibility of being at the wrong place at the wrong time which can have an affect of on the outcomes of life. 5. The author says to the other Wes, “I guess it’s hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances.” What do you think he

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