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The Other Wes Moore

Published on Dec 31, 2015

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The Other Wes Moore

Ana Correia

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Summary

Both of them started off with similar lives but one ends becoming a Rhodes Scholar and the other is in prison for murder.

The autobiography I chose to read was “The Other Wes Moore.” Wes Moore, the author, writes about how his life and the life of the other Wes Moore compare. Both of them started off with similar lives with the same name and living in the same city but one ends up becoming a Rhodes Scholar and the other is in prison for murder. Wes Moore writes about how he was brought up and the struggles he faced in his early life to get to where he is now in life as a successful business man. He compares his life to the other Wes Moore who had a similar upbringing but ended up with a very different outcome.

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“My father was dead five hours after having been released from the hospital"

“My father was dead five hours after having been released from the hospital with the simple instruction to “get some sleep.” The same hospital was now preparing to send his body to the morgue. My father had entered the hospital seeking help. But his face was unshaven, his clothes disheveled, his name unfamiliar, his address not in an affluent area. The hospital looked at him askance, insulted him with ridiculous questions, and basically told him to fend for himself. Now, my mother had to plan his funeral.”

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His father collapsed and his body suffocated itself from a treatable but rare virus.

When Wes, the author, was only three years old he witnessed the death of his father. His father had been feeling ill all day and finally went to the doctor. The doctor said that all he needed was rest and that he would be fine. So his father came back home but after a few hours he collapsed and his body suffocated itself from a treatable but rare virus called acute epiglottitis. His father was quickly rushed to the hospital but it was too late and he was already dead.

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Wes was incredibly shocked and he just stood and stared at his father and did nothing.

The author uses flashbacks from his childhood to describe how he felt when his father died. Wes was incredibly shocked when he saw that his father had collapsed, he just stood and stared at him and did nothing. When his mom, Joy, heard his father collapse she came running in. Joy was trying to maintain calm so that her children wouldn’t notice how scared she actually was. All the characters in the scene were in complete shock and scared for Wes’s father. They weren’t just losing their father/husband they were losing someone who brought comfort and stability to the family.

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They were losing someone who brought comfort and stability to the family.

Joy was expecting the worst out of the situation and she found out she was right. When the doctor walked into the waiting room where the family was, Joy ran up to the doctor and said to him “He’s dead, isn’t he?” before the doctor could even say anything. The doctor revealed what she was expecting, Wes’s father was dead. The author uses dialogue in this scene to help illustrate Joy’s emotions. Joy wanted her husband to survive but she knew that was probably unrealistic. Later on in the book the reader finds out more about Joy’s struggles with the death of Wes’s father and how that affects the family as a whole.

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"She simply pulled her right hand back and slapped me."

“When I heard my mother coming up the stairs, I braced myself. She walked into my room, tired from her long day at work, disappointed by the conversation she’d just had with my dean, and furious after seeing her youngest with a split lip that her only son had given her. As soon as she came close enough, I tried to plead my case, but as it turned out, she had nothing to say. She simply pulled her right hand back and slapped me.”

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Wes had not been doing great in school and was being placed on academic and disciplinary probation.

Wes, the author, had not been doing so great in school and was being placed on academic and disciplinary probation. It was due to bad grades, absence from classes, and an incident with a smoke bomb. All these added together made Joy, Wes’s mother, very disappointed in her son. After she got back home from work and done talking with the dean of Wes’s school she arrives home to see that Shani, Wes’s sister, is hurt because of Wes. Shani knows that Wes is already in trouble, so as a form of sibling rivalry, she uses this as an opportunity to get Wes in trouble. Seeing Shani hurt is the last straw for Joy and she goes upstairs and hits Wes as punishment.

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