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Mary (Mother)
Bernard (Wes's Absent Father)
Kids: Tony & Wes
Parents: Kenneth & Alma
Friends: Woody & White Boy

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Joy is the mother of the author Wes Moore. Joy is first married to bill which then has their first child Nikki. Joy then divorces Bill and marries Westley. After she marries Westley they have two other children, Wes, and Shauna.

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While still in high-school Wes's mother is pregnant with Tony, so she tells her mom and still has to continue high-school and go to college afterward. Later while still in high-school she becomes pregnant with Wes by Wes's father, Bernard.

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Bill was the father of the Author Wes Moore. He was a radio show host and very docile. he would often deflate Joy's temper. He comforts Wes when he is sent to his room. He dies from suffocation when his through swells and shuts.

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Nikki is the older sibling of Wes Moore. She is originally named after her mother, Joy, but her friends and family call her Nikki named after Nikki Geovanni. She would have Wes chase her and once when Wes caught up to her, he swung at her right when Joy opens the door.

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Wes's mother checked the mail and received a letter saying her Pell Grant is cancelled. Mary now devastated sends Wes's mother sends Wes to his fathers moms house to stay for the night.

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Wes goes to his grandmother's house and as he walks in her sees a man sitting on the red couch. The man sitting on the couch was Wes's absent father Bernard. Mary was in shock and disgust seeing Bernard there.

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When Wes was sent to his room after hitting Nikki, his father cooled down his mother and went into Wes's room to talk to him. He sets him down on his lap and tells him that his mother isn't mad. He says how he shouldn't hit woman and Wes goes and apologizes to Nikki and his mother.

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Westley was having issues breathing so an Ambulance was called which brought him to a hospital. While this is happening Wes is in the car with his mother, Nikki, and his younger sister Shani. At the hospital, Westley is pronounced dead due to epiglottis swelling up and closing.

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Wes is about to jump out of a plane and his mind is racing back to all of his training and he is preying to god because he is nervous. the light goes green and the troopers begin to jump from the plane. After Wes jumps and his shoot opens, he feels a mix of piece, relief, and exhilaration.

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Joy ( Mother)
Westley (Wes's Father)
Nikki ( Older Sister)
Shani (Younger sister)
Bill (Joy's ex-husband)
Justin (Friend)
James Thomas and Winell Thomas (Grandparents)

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Wes and his family moved due to his father dying and their neighborhood was turning bad. Wes's father passed away but because of this, his mother wanted to stay in their home to remember him. Though they wanted to stay there to keep those memories alive, being there got too hard on the family. Wes felt very alone. His mom would sleep in the living room because she could not sleep in the same room her husband slept in anymore. Although this was the reason she said it was so she could keep them safe in case someone came into their home. Wes and his family moved to his grandparents' house in the Bronx, located in New York. Their grandparents' house was a three-bedroom home, where anyone could go if they needed a place to stay. There were 5-9 people living in these tight living conditions. The grandparents are from Cuba and Jamaica. The United States gave the grandparents the life they always dreamt of.

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The lawsuit was about the father dying in the hospital and for the lack of training the paramedics had and how they mistreated the father when he was in distress. Mary didn't want to take it to court because she was going through so much that she didn't want to take it to court and settled it outside of court. Mom spent the lawsuit money on training paramedics on how to properly perform CPR and how to treat patients in hopes of no one else having to go through what her family had to endure.

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As crack becomes more common the murder rate drastically increases." In 2008 there were 417 homicides in New York City" (Moore 51). In the late 1980s, and 1990s' crack was a vast epidemic. Crack was easily accessible and addictive. Crack would consume people's lives and would destroy families. People would steal and sell things to get another fix.

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Wes Moore goes to Riverdale, private school.

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Wes wants to be like Tony because he thinks of Tony as his role model due to him being his older brother. Wes see's Tony making money and selling drugs so he thinks that it is the right thing to do because he does see him as a role model. Tony does not want Wes to be like him because he knows that was he does is wrong. Tony does not want Wes in the drug business because Tony sees potential in him and believes he can go on to bigger and better things in life and have more opportunities than Tony has. Tony knows that if Wes gets into the drug business that is all he will do. He will get into drugs himself and can end up risking his life for this.

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When Wes' mom finds two boxes under his bed, she opens them to discover they are full of marijuana, crack, and pills. She flushes the drugs down the toilet several times. His only choice is to see his connections and hit the street again. This is a cycle because in order to pay for the drugs he lost, he must obtain more drugs to sell.

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The moment the other Wes Moore became a man is when he decided to start selling drugs on the streets because he made a decision which affected the ones around him in drastic ways such as his mother finding the drugs under his bed in shoe boxes, and his brother finding out Wes is selling drugs after trying to keep him away from the streets.

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Wes was treated poorly by the cops compared to Shea.

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When Wes found out his girlfriend was pregnant he went to his Aunts house to talk to his father Bernard. He found his father sleeping on his Aunts couch and tried to wake him only for his father to wake up and not recognize Wes.

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Cheryl is the baby mother of Wes's 3rd and fourth children. She also suffers from a heroin addiction

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The Job Corps is a free education for teenagers, men and women, who are wanting to change their lives around. They wish to come out with their GED.