Drug Addiction In The Other Wes Moore

Drug addiction is on the rise and never stopping, with new drugs being discovered, the addictions will keep climbing. The amount of drug addicts there are in america is rising everyday, now it is about 23.4 million people across the our country alone. That is approximately one in ten Americans. In the novel The Other Wes Moore not only drug addiction is a problem but even becoming a drug dealer isn’t a far stretch. The novel follows two men with the same name not far apart, but two different fates. One Wes becomes a respectable Sargent after cleaning up his act while the other ends up in prison for life after a rough life with bad involvements through it all. In the beginning of the book we learn about the boys, one has a dad out of the picture while the other had passed away. Both of the Wes Moore’s are going through rough times. Neither of
That is one of the authors’ key claims, one thing leads to another. “Wes had completely forgotten about his conspiracy argument. The only thing on his mind was trying to figure out how on earth he was going to come up with four thousand dollars-and fast” (Wes Moore 74) proving that it only takes a short amount of time for things to add up, his drug selling had rapidly picked up, which leads right into one of the other main components to the author, he truly believes that if you have the mindset that you will sell drugs you are going to be a drug dealer, but if you set goals for yourself and want to succeed you can and you will. The author also uses symbolism during the part of Wes Moore coming home drunk. “The boyfriend knew exactly what was bothering Wes. He’d smelled like liquor as soon as Wes staggered through the door” (Wes Moore 61) by giving off the scent it lets the reader understand that just from Wes walking through the door the liquor was such an intoxicating scent his mother’s boyfriend could smell