The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore is a memoir about two boys with the same name, both started off living very similar lives. One grew up to be a well-respected member of society as a decorated veteran, a business leader, and a Rhodes Scholar while the other was serving a life sentence in prison for murder. This book reveals moments in both boys lives which change their futures from being each others.
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As I moved closer to the home where my host family lived, I couldn't stop staring at the shantytown. Living in the Bronx and Baltimore had given me the foolish impression that I knew what poverty looked like. At that moment, I realized I had no idea what poverty was - even in West Baltimore we lived like kings compared with this. An embarrassing sense of pride tentatively bloomed in the middle of the sadness I felt at my surroundings (Moore 166). |
This is symbol of the two paths of the lives of the two boys.
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