The Other Wes Moore Compare And Contrast Essay

“At that moment, I realized the journey I took was never mine alone either”(171). The Other Wes Moore was about two kids that lived in the same neighborhood that had the same name. They both went to different schools but did similar things. Both had difficult times with there family and with school. Similarities and differences pertaining to Education and family issues of both Moores were described in The Other Wes Moore. Both the author Wes and the other Wes both had difficult family issues. Both of the Wes’s had mothers that wanted best for them. Joy decided to Wes to private school, “My mother saw Riverdale as a haven, a place where I could escape my neighborhood and open my horizons. But for me, it was where I got lost”(Moore 48). Wes Moore's mother wanted the best for him. Even though both of the mothers wanted best for their son,they also had different responses to what they wanted. The Wes’s determine what choices they made, “The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kind of legacies we

They both were failing,“ Disappointed with D’s pleasantly satisfied with C’s and celebratory about a B, I allowed my standards at school to become pathetic”(Moore 54). Wes decided that he was just giving up on school. He started to skip school too. They both went to different school and they were way different. Wes went the private school. They had more mature kids. The other Wes went to public school. Public school was more rough than private.Wes decided to skip class,“Within minutes, Wes and Woody had hooked up with some older kids who were also skipping class that day”(Moore 59-60). Most of the kids in Wes’s neighborhood went to public school. He was the only one that went to private. Both Wes and the other Wes even though they were both failing school, they both went to different school that had different