https://padlet.com/czakharov/7fcjjjcwq7u3e3wc en-us 2021-03-01 23:24:51 UTC 2026-02-19 17:37:51 UTC hello@padlet.com czakharov https://padlet.com/czakharov/7fcjjjcwq7u3e3wc/wish/1255880429 The eerie and bitterness at the center of the heart and soul of a person is contrastingly different from one another. The novel “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore, undoubtedly overlooks the issues and controversy around poverty, gang violence, substance abuse, and growing up without a father figure. It exemplifies how every person has control of their own destiny and they choose their future paths through values, beliefs, and virtues they were taught at a young age. However, for many individuals, growing up was a lost cause and by learning and teaching yourself you were able to make some sort of living in this confounding world. This one picture has two sides, one side is Wes Moore and the other side is the other Wes Moore. Walking the same streets, living the same street life and coping with the same satire drug, violence, and hatred, these two young boys had to set their own futures. The other Wes Moore struggling to find what he needs, knowing he needs money, finds himself in a world of doom. Wes Moore mentions that, “The pressure was breaking Wes down...His mother needed more money because she was raising both Wes’ and Tony’s kids...He’d realized long ago that crying does no good...Wes held the plastic bag with both hands and poured in nine ounces of cocaine” (Wes Moore, 145). After quitting drug dealing and finishing at JobCorps College, he began work, his pay was cut to a greater degree, and his depression grew. His only way out was to start selling drugs again, at least then he may support his family and the new family he has started with Alicia and Cheryl. After attending military school Wes Moore was set out with monumental plans after changing his life into a whole different direction. He stated, “In both places, young men go through a daily struggle trying to navigate their way through deadly streets, poverty, and the twin legacies of exclusion and low expectations.” (Wes Moore, 170). No matter which way you take, left or right, your mindset changes throughout the paths. You may become a first-degree felony murderer or a composed civil man. Your life choices are brought or seeked out by you as Wes Moore discloses, “It’s up to us, all of us.” (Wes Moore, 180). Whether you choose to go left or right your choice is accountable to you, focus on the long term of things rather than the short term because the short term can leave you spending the rest of your life in prison without the possibility of parole.

]]> 2021-03-01 23:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/czakharov/7fcjjjcwq7u3e3wc/wish/1255880429 czakharov https://padlet.com/czakharov/7fcjjjcwq7u3e3wc/wish/1255884632 2021-03-01 23:28:44 UTC https://padlet.com/czakharov/7fcjjjcwq7u3e3wc/wish/1255884632 czakharov https://padlet.com/czakharov/7fcjjjcwq7u3e3wc/wish/1255885569 2021-03-01 23:29:16 UTC https://padlet.com/czakharov/7fcjjjcwq7u3e3wc/wish/1255885569 czakharov https://padlet.com/czakharov/7fcjjjcwq7u3e3wc/wish/1255886518 2021-03-01 23:29:47 UTC https://padlet.com/czakharov/7fcjjjcwq7u3e3wc/wish/1255886518 czakharov https://padlet.com/czakharov/7fcjjjcwq7u3e3wc/wish/1255887528 A theme that I found prevalent in the novel was spirit and fortitude. Wes Moore’s mother continued to seek to help Wes find himself after many encounters with the law and drugs. Wes was moving down the wrong path. His father’s death left her sleeping in a living room for years, not wealthy, she used the money from their fund to provide equipment and training in respiratory/cardiac arrest. She moved to the Bronx to pursue a better hope for her children. She sent Wes to a private school, she sent him to military school, while working multiple jobs to support the family. No matter what struggles Wes and his two sisters brought to her she always got up and continued to persevere through a tough giving. Wes says, “Things were falling apart...She worked multiple jobs...She had to provide for us, and she was helping out her parents, who were living off two small pensions.” (Wes Moore, 47). His mother’s life was tough but so was everyone else's’ in the Bronx and West Baltimore. Truth is almost no one has it easy and given to them on a plate, you must work for what you want and get up and keep going when you can’t anymore.

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