The fifth Chapter Lost was focused on the themes of life choices and importance of education. For an example the author Wes' mom decided to send him to military school, because of his behavior in school and the incident of Wes hitting his sister, which was an accident but she didn't believe that. The author's mom had sent Wes to military school hoping he would get a better life whether Wes wanted it or not she wanted what was best for him. Wes tried running away multiple times when he got to the military school. The Sergeant told Wes he could leave and gave him a map with the wrong direction, just so he could catch him and made it into a prank. For an example Wes' reaction was “In spite of myself, I was impressed. I had never seen anything like that before. I had never seen a man, a peer, demand that much respect from his people. I had seen Shea demand respect in the neighborhood, but this was different. This was real respect, the kind you can’t beat out of people. That’s when I started to understand that I was in a different environment… It was a different psychological environment, where my normal expectations were inverted, where leadership was honored and class clowns ostracized.” Wes was slowly accepting the fact that he had to stay there to make his life better. The Other Wes was in a difficult situation, he met a girl named Alicia and they liked each other and later on she became pregnant. In the book it said "In Baltimore in 1991, 11.7 percent of girls between the ages of fifteen and nineteen had given birth. More than one out of ten. Wes also didn't feel burdened by the thought that early parenthood would wreck his future plans—because he didn't really have any future plans…But in some unspoken way, he did sense that he was crossing a point of no return, that things were about to get complicated in a way he was unequipped to handle." In cahpter 5 the Other Wes also had another girl on the side that he talked to and as he was walking her home one day and another guy started yelling and saying things to the girl and he ended up beating Wes. Wes went home and grabed his gun and started shooting with his friend involved too and he shot the man Ray. Wes knew he was going to get arrested especially becasue there were many eye witnesses and in the novel it said "Wes heard commotion downstairs and knew his time was just about up. He reached into the wooden drawer next to his bed and got a clean blue shirt with white stripes on it….Wes hurriedly smoothed the shirt down and put his hands in the air, not wanting the cops to think he was armed. He knew how that scenario would end." Wes knew what he did was very wrong and he was ready to face the consequences for the mistakes he made.
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