Significance Of The Title The Other Wes Moore

There is significance with the title of the book because the book is about Wes Moore and another Wes Moore that he meets. The author got the name of the title because it is about two people named Wes Moore. On the cover of my book under the title it say One Name, Two Fates. This subtitle has a much deeper meaning. As you read the book you really learn how the two men have completely opposite lives. Yes, straight away you know this book is going to be about Wes Moore and someone else named Wes Moore. From the subtitle you know clearly they have different lives. I feel like he could have easily titled the book with what the subtitle is “One Name, Two Fates”. The setting of the book is in Baltimore and the book begins in 1982. Baltimore was dangerous

This shows him the dark path in adult hood. Also Wes didn’t really have a male role model, his only one when growing up was his older drug dealer brother. After that thing spiraled downhill for him. He got in to fights and used knifes in the fights. He smoked marijuana which introduced him into the drug world. He started selling and his mother found out and threw away his drugs. He had to pay the debt of the drugs with out having drugs to sell. Wes ends up deeper in the drug world. Wes has a child and to support his new family he stays in the drug industry. Wes gets arrested for selling drugs to a undercover cop. Later Wes attends a job center, but afterwards the effects don’t last long because he proceeded to fill a baggy with 9 ounces of cocaine. Later in the book Wes, his brother and others rob a jewelry store and kill a police officer. Wes was charged with a life sentence in prison without parole. The decisions and experiments that Wes has had growing up lead to his outcome on

The theme off the story is successes of doing right and tragedy of doing wrong. The theme is oblivious after reading through the book. Wes Moore wrote in the introduction “our destinies can be determined by a single stumble down the wrong path, or a tentative step down the right one.” I believe this is what he is trying to teach us about humanity through his work. The book show both sides of humanity the dark side and when its at it best. Like when the Baltimore Sun published an article about Wes Moore being named the Rhodes Scholar, and also published an articled a few months before about a jewelry store robbery that resulted in the death of an off-duty police officer. The robbers happened to be the other Wes Moore, his brother and some