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The Other Wes Moore: Literary Analysis

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Can two young boys with similar backgrounds grow up to be two completely different men? The Other Wes Moore book, by Wes Moore (the author) takes us on a journey back to his child-hood as well as the child-hood of young men with the same name. Wes Moore (the author) describes on The Other Wes Moore book, how these two young men grew up just nearby each other, both surrounded by drugs and crime in a bad environment. Wes Moore (the author) was first Rhodes Scholar of John Hopkins in fifteen years, a combat veteran and white house fellow. Whereas the other Wes Moore was a drug dealer and spending his life in prison. In my opinion, what really made the difference is that, Wes Moore (the author) was successful because he had advantages over the …show more content…

Wes Moore’s mother, Joy was a college graduate and very strict on disciplining her son. For example, Joy, Wes Moore’s mother worked hard to make sure that Wes Moore (the author) went to private school and later on, Military academy, so that he would have better opportunities in the future. Because of his mother Joy, Wes Moore (the author) was more disciplined growing up and became successful. The Other Wes Moore’s mother Mary, was not college graduate and less strict comparing to Wes Moore’s (the author) mother. Even though the other Wes Moore’s mother Mary, tried to improve her family situation by pursuing higher education, she was unable to continue due to her grants were cut and she couldn’t pay her way up to college. For example, when the other Wes Moore’s mother found out there were drugs hiding under her son’s bed she flushed it down to the toilet and she didn’t face her son’s problems, instead she had a hard time believing that both Tony, her older son and the other Wes Moore were drug dealers (Moore 74). As a result of less educated and less strict she was, that led to the other Wes Moore to continue drug

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