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Chapter 1: Author Wes Moore (Moore) - reminder of abuse and establishing the family

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Chapter 1: Author Wes Moore (Moore) - reminder of abuse and establishing the family

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Starting off his half of the chapter, Moore, at three years old, is playing with his sister Nikki when he punches her in the face. This causes his mother to say, "'Get up to your damn room'...'I told you, don
t you ever put your hands on a woman!'" (Moore 5). His mother, Joy, reacted in this way due to previous accounts of abuse by Nikki's father, Bill.

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Chapter 1: Author Wes Moore (Moore) - Death of a loved one and moving to Bronx

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Chapter 1: Author Wes Moore (Moore) - Death of a loved one and moving to Bronx

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Closing off his half of the chapter,  Moore's biological father, Westley, dies. Moore mentions how the Hospital was responsible for his death, citing that his father died "...five hours after having been released from the hospital with the simple instruction to 'get some sleep.'" (Moore 14). As seen a few chapters later, This causes his family to move to the Bronx to live with Moore's grandparents.

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Chapter 1: Prisoner Wes Moore (Wes) - Absence of father

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Chapter 1: Prisoner Wes Moore (Wes) - Absence of father

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For his chapters half, We see Wes going for a visit to his grandmother who, unlike her son Bernard, cares for Wes and his mother Mary. Bernard is explained to have made no effort to see his son until one night he comes over drunk. After Mary refuses to let him see Wes, Moore notes, "That was the last time he tried to see his son" (Moore 24).

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Chapter 2: Prisoner Wes Moore (Wes) -  Woody and looking for a father figure

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Chapter 2: Prisoner Wes Moore (Wes) -  Woody and looking for a father figure

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Starting his half of the chapter, we see that with his fathers absence, Wes's brother Tony is very protective of him. Tony lives in the Murphy Homes Project. He is then called by Woody, his best friend, whom Wes holds a strong friendship with. Wes views Woody's father as his outlet into what having a father is like. Moore makes note of Wes's feelings when Woody cannot hang out with him one time, where Wes is "...genuinely happy for Woody, but also he was deeply envious" (Moore 30).

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Chapter 2: Prisoner Wes Moore (Wes) - "Send a message" (Moore 34)

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Chapter 2: Prisoner Wes Moore (Wes) - "Send a message" (Moore 34)

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After playing football on the streets with Woody, White Boy, and a few other street kids, one of the street kids gets angry and hits Wes in the face while they play football. Wes runs off to grab a kitchen knife to hurt the boy to try and recover his street credit. Wes repeats a message to himself that reappears later in the book: "Send a message" (Moore 34). Police, having already been called, arrest Wes and stop him from attacking the other kid with the kitchen knife.

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Chapter 2: Author Wes Moore (Moore) - after Westley's death and "a brotherhood" (Moore 45) on the court

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Chapter 2: Author Wes Moore (Moore) - after Westley's death and "a brotherhood" (Moore 45) on the court

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On his half of the chapter, Moore's mother, since Wesley died, sleeps downstairs in order to protect Moore and his siblings in the event of a break in, as well as being haunted by the death of Moore's father. After a brief visit with his grandparents, Moore cuts his story to when he meets up with a group of street kids at a basketball court. Moore mentions that he created a bond with this groups of friends, calling their bond "a brotherhood" (Moore 45).

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Chapter 3: Author Wes Moore (Moore) - Riverdale and friends

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Chapter 3: Author Wes Moore (Moore) - Riverdale and friends

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On Moore's side of the chapter, We are introduced to his friend Justin, Whom he, along with a few other street friends is talking with. We find out that Moore is failing in his classes at Riverdale, A private school both he and Justin Attend. On the other hand, while coming from a similar background, Justin is performing well in school. When Riverdale comes up in their conversation, Wes mentions that "...you get some percentage of your rep from your school, and the name Riverdale wasn't going to impress anyone" (Moore 49). This lack of impression is due to a negative stigma the street kids have of Wes being in anyway associated with more well off kids, highlighting an almost tribalistic divide between each economic class.

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Chapter 3: Prisoner Wes Moore (Wes) - drug business beginnings

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Chapter 3: Prisoner Wes Moore (Wes) - drug business beginnings

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For his side of the chapter,  We hear that Tony got shot due to his drug business. Mary warns Wes not to get involved in that business, but he can't help but eye the expensive clothes Tony gets as a result. When hes walking down the streets, he notices a kid wearing a headset, which Moore notes it as "...the coolest thing Wes had ever seen" (Moore 57). When he gets one of these headsets, unknowingly at the time, Wes begins his involvement in the drug world, being a scouter who tells local dealers when to leave at the sight of police.

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Chapter 4: Prisoner Wes Moore - Tony finds out

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Chapter 4: Prisoner Wes Moore - Tony finds out

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On his half of chapter 4, Tony confronts Wes, having found out He got involved in the drug business. Having warned him earlier not to join, and seeing Wes repeat the same mistakes he did, Tony leaves Wes and MAry saying "You know what dude,' he said, 'I'm good.'"(Moore 71). After Tony leaves, Mary finds Wes's stash of drugs and flushes them down the toilet. She tells Wes he can no longer sell any drugs, but ends up leaving Wes in debt who now needs to find a way to ay back for the drugs. Seeing no other way to recoup his losses, Wes secretly returns back to selling drugs to repay his debt.

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Chapter 4: Author Wes Moore (Moore) - tagging and an arrest

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Chapter 4: Author Wes Moore (Moore) - tagging and an arrest

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Starting off his half, Moore talks about the major influence Hip hop has had on not only him, but all of the Bronx, the same place it originated. Ending his half, Wes joins a friend of his named Shae where they both start tagging the side of a building. After being caught by the cops, Wes freaks out because he is scared of his mother finding out he was involved, so he begins to cry. luckily for Wes, the cops let him and Shea go with a warning.

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Chapter 5: Author Moore punches Shani in the Lip (and Joy sends him to Valley Forge)

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Chapter 5: Author Moore punches Shani in the Lip (and Joy sends him to Valley Forge)

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Moore punching his sister in the lip becomes another reason for Joy to send him to military school. In addition to Moore being on probation at Riverdale, this sudden violence that he enacts (and Moore almost hitting back when Joy slaps him), even if Moore himself didn't really mean it, is the moment in the book is when Joy feels the most despair: "Her almond-shaped eyes were overflowing with anger, disappointment, and confusion, and maybe even a little fear... She was devastated" (Moore 88-89). While Joy was obviously upset, it showed that she cared. This moment is put in the book as a flashback while Moore is at Valley Forge, another suggestion that Joy being upset with Moore urged her to send him away. While the people at Valley Forge pushed Moore to do better, it was because Joy was so disappointed in Moore that she even sent him to Valley Forge in the first place, a decision that might not have happened if, in addition to failing in school, Moore had not punched Shani, but more importantly, if Joy did not care about him so deeply.

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Chapter 5: Moore Learns of the Sacrifices that His Family Makes to Send Him To Valley Forge

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Chapter 5: Moore Learns of the Sacrifices that His Family Makes to Send Him To Valley Forge

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Moore is not initially used to the discipline that he has to follow at Valley Forge, so when he is given the opportunity to run away, he takes it and gets caught. This leads to a phone call with Mom which reveals more about the decision to take him to military school; Moore's family is forced to make financial sacrifices to send (author) Wes to Valley Forge, showing the extent to which Moore's family was willing to go to send him there. "'Too many people have sacrificed in order for you to be there'... My grandparents took the money they had in the home in the Bronx, decades of savings and mortgage payments, and gave it to my mother so that she could pay for my first year of military school" (Moore 95-96). Although Moore doesn't realize it at the time, his family did everything they could to get him to Valley Forge, a decision and sacrifice that he later realized changed his life.

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Chapter 5: Wes Learns that Alicia's pregnant

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Chapter 5: Wes Learns that Alicia's pregnant

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Wes is not prepared to be a father and the news that Alicia will have a baby carries a weight that Wes knows is irreversible: “[he] did sense that he was crossing a point of no return, that things were about to get complicated in a way he was unequipped to handle” (Moore 100). In addition to all of Wes' current troubles, being a father will not help his situation, especially with no way to reverse it. Wes knows that he might not be given a second chance this time.

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Chapter 6: Author Wes Moore (Moore) - Hate crimes and a higher rank

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Chapter 6: Author Wes Moore (Moore) - Hate crimes and a higher rank

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For his half of the chapter, We see that Moore has gone from a pleb to leading his own platoon of plebs, completely changing from the boy he was when he entered the academy. One night while out with one of his friends, Dalio, they both experience a hate crime from a drunk driver passing by, which pushes them to go back to their Military schools campus.

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Chapter 6: Prisoner Wes Moore (Wes) - getting off early and right back to jail

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Chapter 6: Prisoner Wes Moore (Wes) - getting off early and right back to jail

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Getiing off lucky, Wes is able to get out of prison after shooting Ray, whom he only shot in the shoulder and had not killed. After being released, we see that Alicia, father of two of Wes's children, is an addict, which Wes recalls as something he does no like to see. Contrary to this idea, however, he then goes with his crew to sell drugs on a street corner. Having sold drugs to an undercover cop however, he is arrested for possession and distribution of illegal drugs.

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Chapter 7: Author Wes Moore (Moore) - paratrooper and praying

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Chapter 7: Author Wes Moore (Moore) - paratrooper and praying

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On his side of the chapter, Moore is with a group of instructors called the black Hats, who are teaching him and other soldiers to become paratroopers. He goes into detail about his feelings during the fall, as well as highlighting how he prayed during the fall, something he does not commonly do.

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Chapter 7: Prisoner Wes Moore (Wes) - Job Corps and old habits

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Chapter 7: Prisoner Wes Moore (Wes) - Job Corps and old habits

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Having to pay child support for his four children, along with not making enough money now that hes gone clean, Wes searches for a solution so that he could provide for his family. His friend Levy mentions the Job Corps, which he agrees to attend Levy in. There, notably, he is instructed to make a project, where he makes a little house he wishes to protect his daughter in. Beyond this, he starts to enjoy school for the first time, and is able to get some construction jobs after leaving the Corp. Unfortunately, still not making money, He reverts back to selling drugs by the end of the chapter.

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Chapter 8: Author Wes Moore (Moore) - a look into true poverty

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Chapter 8: Author Wes Moore (Moore) - a look into true poverty

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Traveling to South Africa, Moore spends his chapter with a local family he is living with, sharing stories with the familys head, Mama, and getting a sense of true poverty in the world.

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Chapter 8: Prisoner Wes Moore (Wes) - the crime that killed Seargent Bruce Prothero

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Chapter 8: Prisoner Wes Moore (Wes) - the crime that killed Seargent Bruce Prothero

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Finishing up his involvement in the main part of the book, Wes and Tony have gone and robbed the local jewelry store, and in the process killed a security guard named Seargent Bruce Prothero. After the robbery, Mary is questioned on their location. After a few days on the run, the police arrest Wes and Tony.