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Changes In The Other Wes Moore

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Remember when you were a kid and you felt unstoppable? Do you see how that changed? Fate can be changed, as long as someone is willing, they can always break the chain. This idea of fate being twisted/changed can be seen through the books “The other wes moore” and “Macbeth.” The book TOWM shows author Wes Moores views on choices we make and how people and how only people affect their way of life. One of the ways the book TOWM shows this choice vs fate is when author Wes Moore goes to be a successful man that becomes part of the military and turns his life around while the other Wes Moore chose to join and stay in the drug game even though he was told not to by his older brother tony which disappointed him, saying, ““You know what dude…… …show more content…

This is all made clear by Tony's emotional outburst toward his brother after trying so hard to protect Wes from becoming just like him. Unfortunately, this doesnt break the other wes from the drug game making it known that this is his choice against fate. while Its a little more difficult on the Macbeths side of the argument over TOWM because of the witch craft that is …show more content…

He was blind with RAGE. Instincts kicked in. Tony’s words rang through his mind. “send a message.”(Moore 104) It was his pessimistic decision to understand that “sending a message” meant to destroy or harm instead of being practical and constructive. Making the choice instead of leaving a harmful situation or informing the police he instead caused more chaos. Macbeth showed fate a little bit more but the story eventually leaned more towards choice after Lady Macbeth's death, and Macbeth, after dealing with the psychological problems after becoming a king and hearing of his wife's passing, macbeth gets a message from his messenger saying that a forest was coming A little bit later on we see how drastically macbeths mentality has fallen, saying, “If what the messenger swears to me is actually true, then I can neither run away nor stay here. I’m beginning to grow weary of life. I wish the established order of the world would fall to chaos.” (Macbeth, act 5, scene 5) Macbeth “knew” it was his end soon, but, instead of running away he made the choice to fight the “forest” himself not wanting to kneel on the ground before Macduff. He was actually

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