Wes Moore's The Other Wes Moore

In “The Other Wes Moore” Wes Moore, the author, and Wes Moore, the eventual murderer, make different decisions that ultimately determined their destiny. Wes Moore, the author, made many valuable decisions, of these the most crucial choose that he made was choosing to stay at Valley Forge Military School. For the first few days of Military School Wes wanted nothing to do with it, He hates the idea of being away from everyone he knew, and always being told what to do. He even admits to trying to run away a few times. In spite of this after the first year was said “I’d actually started to enjoy Military School.”

Moore is establishing his indisputable motive to write this book; his motivation I believe is much more significant than just a mere interest in the coincidence, but also an opportunity to explore how the choices that one makes can alter one’s future. Upon his return from Oxford University, Moore recognized how Wes Moore and himself had both been raised in Baltimore, a breeding ground of violence and crime, a situation in which few can flourish in. Moore is exploring what the tolls of living in a twisted, urban area have on a young, child and how certain characters can leave such dissimilar influences. Moore secures validation over his motivation, yet others and he even himself questions “so what?” , however, I feel many, youth, in particular,

The imagery shows you how dreadful the place is. She shows why she dislikes the urban area and prefers countryside. “Not to kill us, though killing us -or most of us- is necessary. They’re like a landlord who kicks out a deadbeat renter so he can get the house cleaned up for the new tenant; I think this has always been about getting the place ready.” (71) 71 ®

This story was about a young boy, Wesley Harris, and his friend and his two brothers trying to escape from slavery. They did anything to gain their freedom. Both of these passages are based on slavery, and faced a difficult situation. Jeffery and Wesley Harris had many differences, but also had similarities.

Within this passage the Vicar displays an ironically materialistic pleasure in regards his family life and idyllic home. Despite his humble occupation as a small-town Vicar, Primrose ensures that the reader is informed of his little habitation which encompasses ‘twenty acres of excellent land’ and gloats that his pristine neatness could not be exceeded. This is significant as it is something which the Vicar comes into contact with each day and is part of his everyday experience. Furthermore, the positive and idealised representation the Vicar gives of country life, introduces the novel as a pastoral. The simplification of the complexity of life is provided in the Vicar’s descriptions of his return home ‘where smiling looks, a neat hearth,

Utopia- an imagined place or state in which everything is perfect. This is can also be referred to “The White City” in which Chicago was named for its enchanting and beautiful World’s Fair hosted in 1893. The city ultimately changed in just sixteen-months from ugly and crime-filled streets to what many claimed to be a dream. This dream like concept, for many, was easy to be hold, but for numerous women who came to Chicago it was a living, breathing nightmare. Granted that many people came for the fair, many women came before the fair looking for jobs.

The little town that Joe creates in his head is portrayed as “squat and ugly”, and yet still he still believes it to be “beautiful”. The babies in his “beautiful homely” dream are “awfully healthy”, and they correspond with the dawn in that they both symbolize new beginnings. The quaint little town alludes to God watching over his kingdom with admiration. Joe imagines his own utopia, because he succeeded in his goal, he now has access to it. The oxymorons establish Joe’s dewy, fresh appreciation for mundane, typical

Within the valley, there is little of note other than a decrepit billboard and a dilapidated garage. Fitzgerald placed these derelict structures in the valley to portray his view that the American Dream has been tarnished. This powerful message lends the valley an aura of depth and significance. Despite this importance, though, this dull and foreboding location is a land alienated from both itself and its surroundings. The detachment that has permeated the region allows for the unconcerned and neglectful acts, such as Myrtle’s murder, of the East Egg inhabitants to transpire without being noticed in detail by those living there.

The Other Wes Moore: One Tale, Two Fates , by Wes Moore, is an inspirational true story about the lives of two young men who share a similar background and the same name, Wes Moore. While the author grows up to be a veteran, as well as a Rhodes Scholar, the “Other Wes Moore” lands himself in prison with a life sentence. Of course throughout the story the author encounters many antagonists that, if he had allowed, could have pulled him toward a fate like the currently incarcerated Wes Moore. Yet at times the narrator is an antagonist to himself, showing the internal battle he faces throughout his life. Wes Moore’s internal battles begin at very young age, when he was in elementary school.

African American children will most likely experience racism, prejudice, individual and/ or institutional discrimination (e.g. when walking on the streets, wanting to join a sport team, etc.). The social and economic impact of extreme segregation may be one of the reasons why the African American children in the painting moved to the suburbs. A space where effects of segregation are ideated to be not as rough as in other places.

In James Baldwin's short story, Sonny’s Blues, the reader should understand and visualize the historical context in order to understand the world being presented. The reader has to comprehend the harsh life of a male African-American who struggles with his dreams and drug addiction sometime around early 1957. I will discuss Baldwin's writing style, the life/value of an african american's life during this time, and the relationship between Sonny and his brother. Baldwin’s short story illustrates the hardships a person faces while searching for themselves in a world full of people or obstacles that stand in their way. Some of these obstacles are self inflicted, present from the beginning of their existence or appear as though they are random.

In “The Chrysanthemum”, Steinback uses imagery to reinforce the feelings of confinement and loneliness in the main character, Elisa’s, life. He gives detailed descriptions of her scenery and the people she interacts with to give the reader an impression of her feelings. He does this by writing the solemn description of the valley she lives in, her house, and the characters in the story. To begin with, Elisa lives in a valley that seems to be very confining.

On of the greatest examples of imagery that Alice Walker uses is the one that compares light and darkness. At the beguining of the story the author mentions delicate and calm setting of a farm. In creating this imagery the reader is able to understand that all the positive and upbeat words are associated with the farm setting. Myop’s light-hearted innocence is also shown when “watching the tiny white bubbles disrupt the thin black scale”. The effective description  provides credibility to the environment, and makes the later events all the more shocking,

Inside the garden Mary feels securely isolated, “almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place” (Burnett 94). As “its beautiful old walls shut her in[,] no one knew where she was,” and so Mary feels as if “she had found a world all her own” (94,83).

Alice’s utter lack of knowledge about Looking-Glass World creates a complete culture clash between her and the “live flowers.” There is an air of confusion over the scene, especially during the interchange between Alice and the Daisies who pronounce that trees “bark” and “that’s why its branches are called boughs.” The flowers in this extract appear very supernatural and somewhat ethereal, the Tiger-lily is noted as “waving gracefully about in the wind.” Likewise, Carroll states how “the air seemed quite full of little shrill voices”, the utilisation of voice in this aspect makes the flowers seem rather unearthly, yet also highlights the sense of danger that they encompass.