The Other Moore Analysis

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There are so many lessons that we can learn from reading "The Other Wes Moore." One of the most important lessons would be in not quitting school. I firmly believe that finishing school and doing your best while there is a definite game changer in anyone's life. At any time whether in the past or future, the more education you have, the better equipped you are to obtain a good job that pays well and has good benefits. Another area that I feel affects a person's life is in choosing friends. A friend can make you or break you. If your friend is someone who influences you for good and not bad, the two of you can be assets to your family, others around you and also in your community. When a door opens for you to better yourself as it did

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  • Wes Moore's The Other Wes Moore

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    Your fate is not based upon anyone’s actions other than your own. Both Wes Moore’s experienced a circumstance in which they required a second chance. The decision of how to use that second chance is the vital part to succeeding, for the difficult part learning how to “distinguish between second chances and last chances” (Moore 67). Wes— The author— was given a second chance after joining military school. Although it was originally an unfortunate turn of events, Wes quickly learned the opportunities that surrounded him were to fade rapidly if he did not improve his way of life. This experience is an example of how a single person can set themselves up for success or failure based upon their individual

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  • Examples Of The Other Wes Moore

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    one who accomplished a college education and the other living a life sentence in prison. It all comes down to the choices they made through out their lives. The author Wes concludes with “the chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his (Moore).” The author tries to imply that the environment they both lived in were so similar that if the author still had been in that environment he’d possibly be in the other Wes Moore 's position, but the tragedy is that the other Wes could of had the life the author Wes has now. This could be an ultimate example that the people who surround a person could have an affect in their lives for the better or

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  • Character Analysis: The Other Wes Moore

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    “The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his” (Moore, 2011). This quote perfectly describes the book The Other Wes Moore. This book was a story about two people who have the same name and grew up in similar environments, but had very different lives. The author of the book, Mr. Moore, became successful and was given the opportunity to receive “one of the most prestigious academic awards for students in the world” (Moore, 2011). On the other side of the spectrum, the other Wes Moore “will spend every day until his death behind bars for an armed robbery that left a police officer and a father of five dead” (Moore, 2011). Mr. Moore decided to contact the

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  • Discovering Wes Moore Setting Analysis

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    The setting of Wes Moore’s, Discovering Wes Moore has an incredible impact on him and helps him make some of the biggest choices of his life. Wes grows in the Bronx during his early childhood years. He lives in a dangerous neighborhood in which drugs are in use. He makes friends in the neighborhood. However, his mother wants him to get a proper education, so she sends him to Riverdale. Wes makes friends at this school and keeps the ones in the neighborhood. Wes is feeling torn apart while living in the Bronx. He feels that “[He] was too ‘rich’ for the kids from [his] neighborhood and too ‘poor’ for the kids at his school.” (Moore 43). Wes does not feel like he belongs anywhere, which leads to reckless behavior.

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    Wes Moore did many things to prove that he was a thinker in “The Other Wes Moore”. Wes Moore faced problems and thought of solutions. Wes Moore based his actions off of his experiences and he didn’t continuously make the same mistakes. In chapter four of the book, Moore made a bad decision to “tag” or put graffiti on the walls of a building with one of his friends named Shea. Soon after the young men finished tagging the walls they were caught by two police officers. Moore feared the consequences of his actions and in the book he states “In that moment, I became aware of how I had put myself in this unimaginably dire situation – this man now had control of my body; even my own hands had become useless to me. More than that, he had control of

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  • Compare And Contrast Wes Moore

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    Bad choices… Prison… Good choices… Success. These are two completely different ends of life and they can both be talked about by Wes Moore, and the other Wes Moore. Both of these people grew up in West Baltimore a few blocks from each other not even knowing it. Both have siblings and had a rough start in their educations. Wes Moore ends up going to Military school, making good choices and works in the White House, while the other Wes Moore did not make the Best choices and ended up with life in prison due to the murder of a police officer. In The Other Wes Moore, both Wes Moores have a troubling education in the beginning and turn out completely different as well as siblings that acted the same and turned out different.

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    In most of the case the reason people end up in jail has to do with a lack of money. In Tony and Wes case they began because of where they were from and that would be a poor neighborhood where what they grew up seeing was drugs and violence. So my question is how can you expect a lot for somehow who only know a limited amount of thing? We couldn 't expect a lot out of “the other Wes Moore” because they there wasn 't a lot that he knew about. Wes only knew what he had learned on the streets and that was about drugs and violence. Unfortunately there are many others that are in the problem that Wes was in and unless they someone like the author 's mother, Joy who was willing to send her son to military school for his own good, we can only assume they will just be another number to add to the statistics of the increasing incarceration

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    Moore quote including said, “It was a different psychological environment, where my normal expectations inverted, where leadership was honored and class clowns ostracized” (96). The quote The (author) Wes Moore seen in his Military School that the lower freshmen was respects the higher ranking. The (author) was very amazed that in his military school the students were respect their superior and follow their command and their honor code rules to obey by. At the Military School teaches (author) Wes Moore about learn the discipline, leadership, and teamwork. The military do care about the (Author) Wes Moore successes. The (author) Wes Moore have the stronger mentor giving him the responsibility of their trust on him to force him to change his bad behavior that impact his teenage and adulthood

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