Essay On The Other Wes Moore

In the book, The Other Wes Moore, there are two men having same named Wes Moore. They were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up fatherless in Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods. “Author Wes is an American author, social entrepreneur, producer, political analyst, and decorated US Army officer. He is the author of The Other Wes Moore and The Work, both of which are New York Times Bestsellers. He was also the host for Beyond Belief on the Oprah Winfrey Network and the Executive Producer/Writer for Coming Back with Wes Moore on PBS. Currently, author Moore is the Founder and CEO of Bridge Edu”(Wes Moore Wikipedia). He has accomplished so many things in life and the other didn’t grasp the opportunity;

Two men who grew up in the same neighborhood, but the choices and the accountability they made comes as outcome in their lives diverge in to two opposite directions. The author of the book, Wes, who is one of the key characters in the book, had arduous childhood and overcame most of the obstacles in his life because of his mother’s support. When Moore was three, he witnessed his father’s death. After his father’s passing, his mother become stand guard. “Baltimore was getting more and more dangerous; there had been a rash of break-ins in the houses around them” (Moore36). Since, his mother had tough time raising three kids by herself and Baltimore was getting more riot, she took him and his two sisters to live in the Bronx with their grandparents. At the beginning of their movement, Wes had hard time to adjust in new environment. His grandparent’s rules were stricter then his mother’s; all chores had to finished before he went out to play and he had to back home by the time streetlights went on. Immediately, his mother got him enrolled in Riverdale Country school which was in the other side in Bronx. unfortunately, His progress was not excellent in Riverdale. His grandparents dropped him and his sister to train

Moreover, he was raised by single mother too, his father never wanted to meet him. Wes’s mother’s “Educational opportunity Grants or Pell Grants was being slashed, and her grants was being terminated” (Moore17). Due to this, she couldn’t continue her education. Also, he has an older brother; whose name is tony. He was introduced in the book as a “certified gangster” (Moore27). Even though Tony was a drug dealer, he wanted better for his brother. He convinced Wes to stay away from streets and focus on his school. Wes look up Tony and he wanted to be just like his older brother but every time he tried to be like his older brother, the more Tony rejected him. His mother wanted better for Wes and kept moving different location, she thought might be better environment can influence Wes. His mother and older brother tried hard to keep him away from drug and that kind of life style. Eventually Wes dropped out of high school. At the very young age, he started look out for drug which he can make more money in short time and started scanned the streets. Wes and his friend had a code to called out whenever they see police in surrounding. He was several times run in with police which ended with arrested. More money in less time, new clothes, these things keep pulling Wes to be in the streets more. In teenaged, when he didn’t fully