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The Other Wes Moore's mother, Mary, receives disappointing news. The bad news is that she is ineligible for a grant that she needs to continue college.

"Mary realized the letter effectively closed the door on her college aspirations. She had already completed sixteen hours of college credits and would get no closer toward graduation" pg. 17

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The Other Wes Moore meets his alcoholic father.

"Wes didn't understand why, but he felt a tension in the room. Mary looked down at her son and uttered the words she had never said before and never thought she would have to say. 'Wes, meet your father'" pg. 25

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The Other Wes Moore's brother, Tony, starts getting involved in selling drugs. Tony however doesn't want Wes to get involved in crime, he tells him to focus on school.

"And the drug game was everywhere, with a gun handle protruding from the top of every tenth teenager's waistline. People who lived in Murphy homes felt like prisoners, kept in check by roving bands of gun-strapped kids and a nightmare army of drug fiends. This was where Tony chose to spend his days" pg. 27

"Tony knew Wes had just finished elementary school and asked him what he was doing to get ready for the start of middle school at Chinquapin, pronounced "Chicken Pen" by all of its students. Chinquapin Middle was 99 percent Black. Close to 70 percent of the kids were on the school lunch program. Wes mumbled the verbal equivalent of a shrug. Tony was enraged. 'Yo, you need to take this shit seriously, man. Acting stupid ain't cool!'" pg. 27

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The Other Wes Moore gets in a fight with a kid from his neighborhood. The kid punches him and Wes got his revenge by trying to attack him with a knife. The police arrest Wes and Tony bails him out.

"Right in front of him was the boy who split his lip. The anger he'd felt minutes before rushed back. He gritted his teeth and clenched his fists. His eyes started to stream with tears of anger, confusion, and fear. He began to scream. His vision tumbled till the only thing he saw was the boy who'd punched him. Nothing else was on Wes's mind or in his sights, not even the policeman who had just stepped out of his cruiser" pg. 34

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Mary moves her family to a different neighborhood. This is because she feels a need to escape the violence and poverty of the inner city. Wes has a hard time adjusting to the new environment.

"Two incident were decisive in Mary's decision to move. First, Tony got shot in the chest during a botched drug deal. It was the first of three times that he would feel the searing heat of a bullet enter his body. Second, Wes failed the sixth grade at 'Chicken Pen' and had to repeat it. Baltimore City had a 70 percent dropout rate at the time. Tony had already joined that statistic. Mary wanted to keep Wes away from the same fate" pg. 57

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The Other Wes Moore becomes involved in selling drugs. He knows that it's a bad idea but he wants to fit in and he is bored.

“Wes was sold, it seemed like a sweet set up. Simply wear a headset, hang out with new friends, notify people when you see police coming, and get paid at the end of the day” pg. 58

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The Other Wes Moore skips school with his friends. They planned to have a barbeque but We finds his mother's weed stash and takes it to share with his friends. This is a pivotal event for Wes.

“Wes now knew for sure how powerful drugs could be. He felt a strange sense of having passed a test, graduated to a new sense of maturity” pg. 62

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Tony finds Wes's shoe collection and realizes that he is selling drugs. Tony confronts Wes but Wes is lying to him saying that he got the money from DJing. Tony knows he's lying so he beats him up.

“The more he copied him, the more Tony pushed back. Wes wanted to be just like Tony. Tony wanted Wes to be nothing like him” pg. 72

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The Other Wes Moore gets his girlfriend, Alicia, pregnant. Wes decides to not be involved in his child's life because he doesn't have an example of how to be a good father.

“Wes’s nonexistent relationship with his father probably contributed to his seeming indifference about becoming a father himself. All he knew was his mom. He had no idea what his role would be in this situation-he wasn’t even sure he had a role” pg. 101.

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The Other Wes Moore is threatened by his girlfriend's boyfriend (not Alicia). He grabs his gun and decides to fight back. This turns in to an all out war on the streets and Wes shoots the boyfriend. He gets arrested and charged with attempted murder.

"Wes closed his eyes and leaned his head against the black, plastic seat. The street began to clear, and after watching the car fade into the distance, Mary headed back inside her house. Minutes later, Tony arrived. His mother stared at him, her face drained of emotion. 'It's too late,' she told him. 'Wes is already gone'" pg. 107

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The Other Wes Moore gets arrested for selling drugs. He was too confident in his ability to make money so he got caught by an undercover cop.

"Guns in hand and silver badges swinging from metal chains around their necks, the men pointed their weapons at Wes and ordered him to the ground...'What did I do man? I didn't do anything wrong'" pg. 114

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The Other Wes Moore's girlfriend, Cheryl, is on drugs. This is a pivotal event for Wes because it makes him realize how much he hates the effects of drugs. Cheryl is incapable of taking care of their children and this disgusts Wes.

"Wes took the face of his third and fourth children's mother in his hands and began to shake her. She lay on the couch, saliva dripping out of the corners of her mouth onto her red Gap T-shirt, her pupils dilated and rolling to the back of her head, heroin still flowing through her veins" pg. 137

“Wes was tired. Tired of being locked up, tired of watching drugs destroy entire familes, entire communities, an entire city. He was tired of being shot at and having to attend the funerals of his friends” pg. 138

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The Other Wes Moore gets a tattoo. This tattoo sends the message that Wes is tired of life and that he doesn't believe in God.

"When he was growing up, Wes would occasionally follow his mother to the New Metropolitan Church on Sunday, but even on his sporadic visits, he never felt any connection. He would watch the singing and dancing, cheering and crying, and chalk it all up to theatrics. Wes would wonder if anyone there even knew who or what they were praying to. Where was God when people didn't make enough money to feed their families? Where was God when kids were selling rocks at twelve years old, and their parents encouraged it because the kids were the main breadwinners in the home?" pg. 140

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The Other Wes Moore goes to Job Corps. He is tired of being surrounded by drugs so he decides to make a new opportunity for himself. He becomes a leader after completing his GED.

"After completing his academic course work, Wes started on his professional training. He selected carpentry as his vocational specialty. He had always been handy. Years ago, the siding had begun to fall off his mother's house. His brother, Tony, held the siding level as Wes's steady hand nailed the replacement into place. The crack of the hammer as it connected with the head of the nail. The way the body of the nail disappeared into the siding. The joy of admiring a finished product. The quiet thrill of a job well done" pg. 142

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Shortly after The Other Wes Moore finishes Job Corps he is drawn back to the money that selling drugs brings in.

"A year after graduating, he realized they had not disappeared-they's simply returned to Baltimore, waiting for him to come back. In his absence, they'd compounded" pg. 145

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The Other Wes Moore gets arrested for the involvement of a robbery and murder of a cop. He gets sentenced life in prison. Wes finally realizes that his actions have consequences because he knows that the rest of his life will be spent in jail.

"The sentence was life in prison without the possibility of parole...But he'd never figured this. Maybe it was because he'd never thought long term about his life at all. Early losses condition you to believe that short-term plans are always smarter. Now Wes's mind wandered to the long term for the first time. Finally, he could see his future" pg. 157