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Wes meeting his father for the first time

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Wes meeting his father for the first time

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"'Who's this?' Mary smirked and rolled her eyes. She could not believe his audacity. Wes didn't understand why, but he felt a tension in the room... 'Wes, meet your father'" (Spiegel & Grau 25).

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Wes playing football with Woody and gets punched

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Wes playing football with Woody and gets punched

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"His nose brushed up against Wes's chin. 'Didn't I tell you to stop touching me?' the boy yelled in Wes's face. 'Make me!' The boy pushed Wes in the chest, creating a short distance between the two, then clocked his right arm and punched Wes square in his face" (Spiegel & Grau 31).

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"As Woody got closer, his attention was diverted from Wes's left hand to his right, where he held a long-bladed knife. Woody carefully approached Wes and said, 'Don't do it, man. Dude is not worth this,' but Wes moved toward the back door, which led to the alley that connected the homes on each block" (Spiegel & Grau 33).

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"The officer pinned Wes's body to  the car with a forearm hard against the back of Wes's neck while he used his other hand to pull the handcuffs from the right side of his belt holster... Woody was taken to his house in one of the police cars while Wes was brought down to district booking" (Spiegel & Grau 34).

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"'Wait till you see what I've got!' Woody hustled over, and after they exchanged dap, Wes pulled out the bag. Woody instantly knew what they were working with. His eyes lit up and he snatched the bag from Wes, opened the top a crack, and took a deep whiff like an old pro" (Spiegel & Grau 59).

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"She reached again for the first Nike box and opened it. Inside were pills, marijuana, half an ounce of powdered cocaine, and a half a dozen vials of 'ready rock', or crack cocaine... Both of her sons were drug dealers" (Spiegel & Grau 73).

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"Wes and his new friend continued to talk all the way to school... Wes asked if he could get her phone number. She pulled a pen out of her book bag and began to write her number down" (Spiegel & Grau 99).

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"Within two months of their meeting, Alicia told Wes that her period was late. Four tests and eight matching plus signs later, it was confirmed. They were going to be parents" (Spiegel & Grau 99).

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"As Ray's house came into view for all three young men, Ray decided to make a run for it, ducking behind a row of parked cars. Wes and his friend traded shots and finally heard Ray scream as he fell behind a black Toyota just fifty feet from his house... They saw no movement and figured the job was done" (Spiegel & Grau 105).

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"Seconds later, Wes was being pushed facedown onto his bed, his hands locked in cuffs behind his back. He was escorted downstairs by three police officers, led to the back of their cars, and shoved in" (Spiegel & Grau 106).

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"As he turned the corner, he heard a yell behind him. 'Stop moving and get your hands up!'... Guns in hand and silver badges swinging from metal chains around their necks, the men pointed at Wes and ordered him to the ground... In total, ten police officers moved twoard Wes. He got down on his knees and laced his fingers behind his head" (Spiegel & Grau 114).

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"Wes decided to go with Levy to his final Job Corps interview... After receiving the same deployment date as Levy, Wes understood that the only question he was asked that mattered was the last one. When the time came, he packed his bags and said goodbye to his family. Where he was going, he had to go on his own" (Spiegel & Grau 140).

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"In the first phase of Job Corps, students are tested to place them at the right level of GED training. One day after they took the test, the results came back... Wes, by contrast, finished near the top of his class. He completed the course work and received his GED a month later" (Spiegel & Grau 142).

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"He spent the next several months building his daughter's houses from scratch. He sanded every board, hammered every nail, leveled every edge. When it was finished, the house stood five feet high and an arm's length across; it included shutters, a door, and windows" (Spiegel & Grau 143).

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Wes starts making cocaine in his own kitchen

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Wes starts making cocaine in his own kitchen

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"He reached in the refrigerator and pulled out the baking soda. Muscle memory kicked in as he tapped the side of the box and poured three ounces of the baking soda into the black pot... As the baking soda swirled in the rapidly heating pot, Wes held the plastic bag with both hands and poured in nine ounces of  cocaine" (Spiegel & Grau 145).

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"'Keep your hands on the backs of your heads! I ain't playing with you!' yelled one of the armed robbers... They headed straight to the display cases that housed the watches and necklaces. Their decisive movements slowed they knew exactly where to go and what they were looking for" (Spiegel & Grau 147).

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Mary sees her sons on the news after they robbed a jewelry store

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Mary sees her sons on the news after they robbed a jewelry store

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"The reporter warned those watching that they should be assumed to be 'armed and very dangerous.' Mary's large-screen televison was now filled with photos of these suspects. Her heart broke when she saw Tony's and Wes's faces staring back at her" (Spiegel & Grau 149).

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"When Wes didn't hear the door close behind Tony, he took one final bite and ran the stairs to slam it shut. As Wes hit the final stair, he looked up and saw his brother lying face down on the floor, a police officers knee in his back, handcuffs being tightened around his wrists. Before Wes could even react, a half dozen plainclothes officers were on top of him, the barrels of their guns trained on his head and the lights from their flashlights blinding him" (Spiegel & Grau 154).

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"As he heard the foreman begin, he closed his eyes and leaned his head back. 'On the charge of first-degree felony murder, the jury finds the defendant... guilty.'... He would spend the rest of his life in prison" (Spiegel & Grau 156).

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The other Wes Moore is impacted by his environment in many ways because he didn't have a father figure growing up since his father decided to leave him and his family before he was born. The only role model Wes had wasn't a good one. Tony was a bad kid who sold drugs beginning at age 10 and had already been arrested multiple times. Wes wanted to be like Tony and Tony tried to explain to him that he needs to be completely different from him and be successful in life. Living in a ghetto part of town also didn't help make Wes successful because he was involved in crime and drugs almost everyday of his life. Not having a good role model and living in a drug/crime filled neighborhood isn't a good environment to put a child in and hope they turn out successful. In Wes's case, he turned out to live the rest of his life in jail and didn't do anything good in his life beside provided for his mistaken children.