The Other Wes Moore Blog #2

The Other Wes Moore Blog #2

          This chapter "In Search of Home" was about both Wes Moore's and the themes it was most focused on were on obstacles, life choices, the affects of your surroundings. For an example in the book Wes's father passes away and he has to live without having the person he looked up to. While the other Wes moved to his grandparents house because his mom's grant got turned down. The other Wes played football with some people in the street with his best friend and one of the guys started a fight with Wes and punched him. Wes went and grabbed a knife while his friend Woody tried to stop him but he was too late because the police came and arrested them. Wes was always told to stand up for himself because in the book his brother told him “rule number one: If someone disrespects you, you send a message so fierce that they won’t have the chance to do it again.” That was a life choice Wes made that caused him and Woody to get arrested. But then he got bailed out by his father. Also another example of a life choice was “But no matter how tough he was,or how many corners he controlled, what Tony really wanted was to go back in time, to before he'd gotten himself so deep in the game, and do it all over again. He wanted to be like Wes.” This was the life choice that Wes' brother Tony made in which he regretted it later on his life and he wished it could go back to normal. This would also be counted as the affects of your surroundings because of the bad neighborhood him brother was influenced negatively.Tony told Wes “Yo, you need to take this shit seriously, man. Acting stupid ain't cool. He was looking out for Wes and didn't want him making the same mistakes he did. Even though Wes was near a bad area his brother Tony wanted to keep him on point instead of messing his life like him. Also this quote was an example about obstacles“Over half of the eight thousand residents lived below the poverty line. Mary shuddered every time she left the house and was putting her escape from Cherry Hill as soon as she got there.” This showed how unsafe it felt in that neighborhood and how Mary didn't really like the fact of her family living around that neighborhood.