Environment
What would describe the environment that both of the Wes Moore's lived in?
Crime ridden cities.
What family member did the other Wes Moore look up to?
Tony
What is life of crime/prison life?
The quality of the other Wes Moore's school.
What is poor/ low preforming?
What did the other Wes Moore do to get a life sentence?
Committed robbery.
The Author Wes Moore and Other Wes Moore Grew up in crime ridden cities like ...
What is the Bronx and Baltimore?
This family members high expectations pushed her son towards academic success.
Who is Joy Moore?
These people influenced the other Wes Moore to be involved in illegal activities.
Who is Wes Moore's street friends and drug dealers?
The Author Wes Moore grew had access to the best school around him and the Other Wes Moore had ...
What is public school?
The life event that happened to the other Wes Moore and caused him to reflect on life choices.
What is life sentence in prison?
Exposure to violence poverty and drugs made this Wes feel as if he had no choice.
Who is the other Wes Moore?
This persons death meant that one Moore lost a potential strong moral compass, affecting his path in life.
Who is Author Wes Moore's father?
The desire to have respect from this group led the other Wes Moore farther and farther into the drug trade.
What is his neighborhood peers?
This woman's made a decision to remove her son from a failing public school and enroll him in the best school around.
Who is Joy Moore?
The decision by the Author Wes Moore to engage with his mentor and education helped him escape from the cycle many others couldn't (this includes the other Wes Moore).
What is choosing responsibility and discipline?
If you grow up in an environment that has lots of illegal activities you are more likely to be. . .
What is desensitized to crime?
This group plays a crucial role in teaching, culture and, moral values during early development.
What is family?
Making a decision that you typically wouldn't make due to your friends or peers.
What is peer pressure?
Being placed in a structured and disciplined learning environment can help put their life on a better path.
How can education provide opportunity and reshape identity?
Any decision can create lasting consequences that reveals who someone is.
How do personal choices change ones identity?
The Neighborhoods that both of the Wes Moore s grew up in were filled with poverty and violence. This harsh setting made people think that they were trapped, so they resorted to illegal actions as a way of survival. In the book the environment that both of the Wes's grew up in often influenced their decisions for the worse but also created a tension between hope and hopelessness.
What is the role of the inner city environment in shaping identity?
The Author Wes Moore s mother played an important role in guiding Wes's future. Despite their financial struggles she worked vigorously to give her kids a proper education. Her refusal to accept failure ex. (sending author Wes Moore to military school for subpar grades) highlights how much of an impact a determined parent can have on a child's identity.
Who is Joy Moore and how did her parenting affect the author Wes Moore's identity?
The other Wes Moore found acceptance and power among his peers who were involved in the drug trade. These types of friendships offered Wes a way to survive in tough times but led him down a worse path in the future that limits his future. Over time the influence from his friends became stronger than the warnings from the police or his own mother warnings.
How did the other Wes Moore's friendships contribute to his choices and identity?
When author Wes Moore was sent to Military school he resisted it, but over time the school had become a place of transformation for him. The structure and discipline he received taught him leadership skills and a sense of belonging a purpose. Unlike the other Wes, author Wes had access to a system that invested their time and effort into his potential., this all proves that the level of education can have a dramatic role in ones life.
What role did the military school play in shaping the author Wes as a person?
When the other Wes Moore committed the robbery that involved the death of the police officer sealed his fate as he received a life sentence in prison. This represented many missed 2nd chances and environmental pressure. This turning point in his life tells the reader how one decision can have irreversible consequences on a persons future and identity.
What was the impact of the other Wes Moore's decision to partake in the robbery and how did it shape him as a person?