I Am The Egg Man, We Are The Egg Men, And I Am The Other Wes Moore?

-Fate. Just the mere mentioning of this word conjure up memories of masterpieces involving love, lost, the past, the present and the future. But what is fate? The idea of fate, as it stands, is an outcome, per say. The events in our live, which we follow, have in outcome skewing into different tangent. Now what if you, and one other person whom you don't know and have never met, shared the same name, but two order nary different lives? That was the story of Wes Moore....at least one if the story's. Both Wes Moores grew up in the ghetto's of intercity Washington D.C. Both had single parent, live circumstances and lives. But they are not so so different.

  As bizarre as this may, or may not sound, both of these Wes Moore's are partially the same side of a coin. Let me explain. They both grew up in the intercity ghetto of Washington D.C. in the same neighbor hood, but were completely unaware of it. Regardless of their separate lives, they both lead, predominately, the same lives. Both hung out in the neighbor hood socializing  with kids their own age. They both had single parents who raised them and a small family.




  For our protagonist Wes Moore, the turning point for his actions came much too late. He had already full life of being a criminal. From robbery to murder. At points when he wanted to turn his life around,  according to the book  he only knew this life and no other.

 For the non institutionalization Wes Moore, the story revolves around his life has had several turning points that severely affected him as a young child. In the beginning of the book, the death of his father before his very eyes greeted to the reader. Wes Moore said this deeply affected him in essence because since his he was so young. Although never truly had an opportunity to meet his father which would be seemingly the father figure he searched for. Until he was unwillingly sent to  Military school by his Mother at a very young age, he was on the boarder line of living the same life as our protagonist Wes Moore.






  The love of a parent shows no bounds. For both Wes Moore's, their mothers were the predominate  figures in their lively hood. For the non institutionalization Wes Moore, his mother's presence and stern determination to keep him as a civil member to society had a profound effect on him, because she kept a role as a parent. When he did something wrong, she punished and when he was behaving she nurtured him. She took the equation of being a friend away, and stayed a mother.


  Protagonist Wes Moore had a drastically different family environment. His mother, while present, was always kind, generous and loving to Wes Moore, but she played a role more of a friend and less of a mother, not to demean her in anyway. But when Wes Moore was in some sort of trouble, she tended to turn the other cheek. Refusing to believe that here Son was becoming just like his criminal older brother. His father, living in a different area, absent and an alcoholic never played the role of a father. For all that is said and done, his brother Tony was the catalyst in Wes Moore's life a crime. Influencing him from a very young age and without a father, Wes Moore developed, in my opinion, developed a need to have a father figure in his life and Tony was it.


  
 The thing that is difficult to explain is the human behavior aspect of the story. Without a doubt it teaches the reader the importance of a family and structural environment For me it goes something like this. A mirror can tell you whatever you want it too. If you place a mirror of yourself in front of you, with your home behind you, it can spell a thousand word of you future. The similarities between the two Wes Moores spans continuously from environment to home life. Patterns like this can be found in every person depending on the who, what and where.

This book was an absolutely joy to read. The thing I loved most about it was that it offered a window into the true meaning of hope. What I mean when I say this is that, even though these men lead two completely different lives and both ended up having incredibly different lives, they still kept hope that they would have their voices heard and that their lives would shape up into becoming something they had wished for. I hope everyone and anyone take the time to read this book and now I leave you with this video relating to the idea of imagination and never giving up hope.                                                

Sources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj-xOkHtHRg This song will just a song, has a powerful message of friendship and growing up.