A Fatherly Influence In Wes Moore's Life

Two men have the same name, with completely different lives and futures. The Other Wes Moore is about two men with the same name but completely experiences in life. The author Wes goes into military school which changes his life. The “other” Wes stays in the drug business and ends up in prison. The Similarities and Differences pertaining to Family Life and role models of both Moores were described in The Other Wes Moore.

"Your father wasn’t there because he couldn’t be, my father wasn’t there because he chose not to be" (Moore 1). Because the other Wes Moore 's father chose not to be in his life it affected him differently than Wes 1. Along with his father not being present, his mother wasn 't such a big influence unlike Wes 1. Wes Moore had a better relationship with his mother than the other Wes. If it wasn 't for his mother Wes 1 would have ended up just like the other Wes Moore.

This causes him to think of what it would be like without his father, in response he says “Instantly, I felt ashamed of myself forever.” (Wiesel, 106). The only thing

Throughout the passage, the young man’s longing for an understanding of his emotions is made evident, as he is incapable of locating his ‘inner self.’ The young man’s efforts within his community, along with his past experiences with loss, help to demonstrate how actions and background vastly influence one’s ability to generate ‘human connections.’ The young man’s loss of his parents at a young age provides reasoning for his deep feelings of loneliness and self-questioning. In paragraph 37 of the passage, the young man questions, “Where are you?

Following the death, his mother decides to move them into their grandparent’s house in New York, hoping this will make things a little less challenging. However, the neighborhood was not how she remembered. Wes was now witnessing more drug activities and dealing with being enrolled into a new school with a divergent environment. Dissatisfied with his life, he began to care less. His attitude caused his grades to drop and eventually he was placed on academic probation.

Many individuals say that a person is a product of its surroundings. And for two young men from Baltimore, this could not be any more accurate. In “The Other Wes Moore” by Wes Moore, the author talks about two young boys who shared the same name and the contributions they did in their lives that made them turn out the way they are. Both Wes’ grew up in similar environment with tough childhood and without the presence of a father. Where one becomes very successful and a Rhodes Scholar, and the other is heavily involved in the drug game and receives a life sentence in prison for serving a part in a murder of a former police officer.

Art Spiegelman offers a very unique point of view in his two narratives, Maus I and Maus II. In these two books, Spiegelman takes us through the life of his father Vladek and his journey during World War II in Europe. Spiegleman also confronts how post-memory has effected him through the years, even when he was growing up. These two books reflect perfectly on a survivors story using symbolism and analogy.

Davis shows this by writing, “[y]our father’s hand covers your gearshift-perched/right, his mouth curling before opening, “Good job.” The narrator’s father is showing the narrator how to drive and this could be one of his favorite memories. The narrator wants to remember things about his father. Davis goes on to write, “[a]nd when the therapist asks, ten years later, [...] how you imagined him/feeling when you pictured handing over/the grandchild he will never know - you remember/that he never held praise too tightly.” Davis uses this evidence to show the theme by showing the reader how the narrator misses his father and the memories he [narrator] has of

Lastly, the two words the son and the man add to the complexity of the relationship. This shows that the man can’t picture himself being a father, especially after knowing he can’t meet the child’s expectation, but will always picture his son being a child in his eyes. In conclusion the author uses literary devices to add depth and emotion to the complex relationship between the two characters. He does this by changing the point of view throughout the poem from son to father. He uses a purposeful structure from present to future coming back to present to demonstrate with the complexity of the father's

The author also uses rhetorical devices such as allusion seeing in his thought and dreams death, and amplification of his surrounds of murder. The author argues throughout the story if he believes their is a god after the horrors he has been through. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.... Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself.

His father was the only real piece of his past life he had, having all other family members taken, possessions stolen, and even identity brought down to simply a

Wes Moore is the author of a novel that talks about a man with the same name as him and how his life varies from his own. There are three special social factors that set good and bad Wes apart from each other. Also there was a positive impact on the bad Wes when he participated in Job Corps when he was at the campus but it did not last very long when he went back home. Which once Wes headed back down the negative path again it would ultimately lead to his life imprisonment. But it seemed like prison turned out to have a good impact on Wes’ life but it will impact his children’s lives forever.

Family “Father! Father! Wake up. They’re going to throw you outside… No!

Readers come across the complication of Julian Hayden (Wes’ father) putting pressure on Wes for letting his brother go. Wes is torn between the decision of keeping his family name in office and following his wife and his gut in doing the right thing. David points out that his father “turn two ways at once” (Watson 18). One way being the pressure that Grandpa Hayden wants nothing more than Wes to let his brother go even if he had committed a crime and the other being Gail who wants her husband to be himself and do the right thing instead of following the footstep of his father. David also noted about his grandfather, “my grandfather, who wanted his son to continue the Hayden rule of Mercer County” (Watson 18).

An example from the text is when the son says to the dad " So I told him one night very resolutely and very powerfully that I would remain with him as long as he lived and we would fish the sea together" the father then replied saying "I hope you will remember what you've said. "(pg.11 Alistair MacLeod) That statement is important as the story draws to an end because in order to ensure a fulfilled future for his son the dad had to die as is shown in the last paragraph, "but neither is it easy to know that your father was found on November twenty-eighth ten miles to the north and wedged between two boulders at the base of the rock stern cliffs where he had been hurdled and slammed so many many times. "(pg.12 Alistair MacLeod)