Essays on Wes Moore

Wes Moore's self-titled memoir/biography The Other Wes Moore depicts the similarities and differences between himself and his identically-named neighbor from childhood, who turned out to have a much different life. In the first chapter, "Is Daddy Coming With Us?" Wes Moore uses ethos, pathos and logos to help establish the harsh yet unique and multifaceted childhood both Weses had. This childhood allows him to become the man he is today, but establishes the throughline of tragedy that will follow him and the other Wes Moore throughout the book. Wes Moore is a soldier, public speaker and philanthropist who is currently ...

The book revolves around two young men both with the same name Wes and who happen to share the same challenges of growing up in a poor neighbourhood, the people they interact during their growing stage and how those people shaped their lives in contributing on the decisions that they made that changed their fate.The book is divided into eight chapters, each chapter discussing the development stages and the changes that the two Wes encounter in life as they grew up. For the purpose of his paper I will consider two of the concepts which we can learn from this ...

Wes Moore as well as the other Moore grew up in the same neighbourhood. The neighbourhood was surrounding by various moral atrocities. Some of the atrocities that surrounded the social setting in which these two character grew in include drug abuse and negative peer pressure. Though both Wes Moore and the other Moore grew up in the same neighbourhood they grew up to become very different individuals that exhibited different interests and attributes. This paper intends to answer the question; what happened in the life of each of the two characters that led to different outcomes in terms of ...