Choice is what led both Wes Moores to end up where they did. One being in prison for the rest of his life and the other being a road scholar. They were both lucky to get as many chances as they did. The other Wes ended up in prison by choice. There were three choices the other Wes made because he wanted to not because of fate. For the author Wes, he had two decisions to make and he chose the right ones. The other Wes was not very smart at making decisions. For him, it all started when he was playing football with some kids from his neighborhood. He was only eight when his brother had told him. “Rule number one: if someone disrespects you, you send a message so fierce that they won’t have the chance to do it again.” (33) When playing football, …show more content…
This only led him to get arrested at only 8 years old. Another bad decision the other wes made was after he moved. He was the look out for people that sold drugs on the streets. He would let them know when a cop was near by. Although he wasn’t the one dealing with drugs, he was still helping and eventually led him to later move up to selling drugs. He even came up with his own group. “The drug game had it’s own rules, it’s own structures.” (111) There was the lieutenant, which was the leader of the small crew. There was the corner boys who were usually around the ages of 7 and 11, they were the look outs. The hitters were the ones that dealt with the money and there was also the housemen who were in charge of distribution. Lastly there was the muscle, their job was to protect the crew and the lieutenant. A last thing he had a chance at making a good decision was when he went to the job corp. Wes made the right decision by going because he ended up getting his GED. “A year after completing the Job Corps training, Wes realized the only consistency in his employment was …show more content…
The jobs he would get did not pay enough to him compared to when he was selling drugs. He ended up selling drugs again, not because of fate but because it was his choice. Unlike the other Wes, author Wes made better choices. In the beginning he did not want to go to school because he wanted to seem cool to his friends. His mother had put him in a private school. He was one of the two kids in his town that would go to this private school. “My mother decided soon after our move to the Bronx that I was not going to public school. She was not a snob, she was scared.” (47) His mother knew things had changed since the last time she was there. Not going to school was a bad choice author Wes made. The second decision author Wes made was probably the best one he ever made because it led him to be successful. When his mother put him in military school he didn’t want to be there. He tried to run away. When he called his mother he asked her if he could go back and promised to do better. Mary said, “Wes, you are not going anywhere until you give this place a
The author compares the detail that his mother darned her socks and the pretty teacher looked like figure in magazine to show that people in this school were rich while his family was
Because of this he doesn’t go to school and stays home, resulting in his parents sending him to Washington Academy, a private school (page 171, and page 176). His chain reaction of events ends here when in class of his new and school, he is asked to sing the national anthem, and he replies “I don’t know the words,” (page
“You are free to make whatever choice you want, but you are not free from the consequences of the choice.”-Ezra Taft Benson. This quote by Benson relates to the novel Tangerine by Edward Bloor. The characters in the novel don’t make good life choices and in the end, they pay for the mistake. Paul Fisher’s parents make bad decisions with treating their two sons.
After having his first child the other Wes Moore had been missing school, and later dropped out. Having a child put a lot of strain on the other Wes Moore. And without a high school diploma and a criminal record it would be nearly impossible for Wes to find a job. For the time being, however, Wes was able to stay with his aunt Nicey. Nicey told him “to either get a job or go to school” (110).
In the amazing book of Twisted, the main character, Tyler Miller has made some poor decisions, like most teenagers. Some of Tylers decisions have been less thought out than others, at school, at home and other places. In the beginning of the novel, Tyler had been irresponsible and not taking the time to think about his decisions and the consequences they will have on him, however by the end of the book Tyler changed his ways and dealt with his consequences. One bad decision Tyler made was in the very beginning of the story. Tyler had a plan A and a plan B that both involved the school at which he attended.
Have you ever been in a situation where your choice could affect something big? In the stories “A Sound of Thunder” and “Being Prey”, the characters had to deal with just that. The characters have to overcome the setting, theme, and conflict of their stories. Val Underwood and Eckles both have to make a choice that could affect their lives, and whether or not they live them. “A Sound of Thunder” is about a man named Eckles traveling back in time to hunt and kill a dinosaur, or more specifically, a T-rex.
Imagine having a different face than everybody else, people sneaking looks at you every once in awhile, and not being able to go in public without people whispering at you and giving you weird looks. This is the life of a fifth grader named August or Auggie Pullman. In the book “Wonder” by R.J. Palacio Auggie’s parents were debating about if Auggie should go to school or not. August was thinking “no way” was he going to school but then during the middle of summer, Auggie’s mom took him to the school to see what it’s all about and that changed his mind quite a bit.
“Every test in our life makes us bitter or better, every problem in our life comes to break us or make us, the choice is ours whether we become the victim or the victor.” Choices can either make or break someone's life. This theme statement is shown throughout the short story “The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind,” the short story “The Interlopers,” and the article “Teens who Expect to Die Young.” All these sources are about how choices can affect someone in a positive, or in a negative way. The short story, “The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind,” by Ray Bradbury explains how two emperors were greedy and made unethical choices while competing against one another.
Once Cody changed his school he started to become better at his school work. In his old school, Cody does no work. . In the story, Cody thought “I’d never written anything longer than a birthday card with out being forced” (23). This is why he has bad grades, he doesn’t write, or do any of his work for that matter without being forced.
Have you ever heard of a novel by the author Edward Bloor by the name of Tangerine with the main characters name being Paul Fisher and the choices he makes and the resulting consequence? If you have not this is for sure the novel for you. In Edward Bloor’s novel Tangerine, one character’s choices and the consequences of these choices affect the development of the main character, Paul Fisher. In this story Paul Fisher is a very interesting 7th grade boy that makes some choices and the result of it is not that great. Paul also makes good choices but never gets a good consequence for it.
Later he was beaten up by the principal. He wanted to be a successful
A person’s life is a series of decisions leading them to the place in which they are today. Take a second to remember a point in time when you were face to face with a fork in the road, and a decision had to be made. Decisions are found in and throughout literature. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston are both built on decisions made by the characters. From small decision such as what to wear on a dinner date to difficult decisions such as pulling the trigger and killing the love of your life, they each played an important role in the stories.
According to Stephen R. Covey, “While we are free to choose our choices, we are not free to choose the consequence of our actions.” In the book Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, a boy named Paul Fisher moves to Tangerine, Florida and tries to find out how he lost his peripheral vision. A choice can have a positive or negative impact on people’s lives and the character's choice that had the biggest impact on Paul was when Luis stood up to Erik at the football field. This had the biggest impact on Paul because first of all, it gave Paul the courage to tell the police what Erik had done to Luis. Secondly, it made Erik kill Luis which sent him to jail.
Have you ever had multiple bad situations happen to you where you just give up on trying to make them better. Well, Greg the main character in the story, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, always gets put in really bad positions. He gets embarrassed, hurt, disgusted, uncomfortable, and even annoyed throughout the whole story. Greg also changes throughout the story too. This book is about that no matter what situation you are put into, you can still make the best out if it.
When he was fourteen he studied at the Bronx Science for a year but dropped out a year later to begin homeschooling. As a teenager he spent most of his free time in his bedroom glued to his computer. Instead of his mother trying to pry him away from his computer and get his to go outside like most parents, his mother encouraged him and suggested that he dropped out