Mary And Joy Compare And Contrast

Although Wes and the author both had mentors, it was ultimately the influential power of Mary and Joy that affected their sons. Joy influenced the author politically with the resources she had but Mary didn't have many resources so she couldn't influence him in many positive ways. The boys had other mentors too, but Mary and Joy had a strong power to mentor their sons just because they were their mothers. They both cared deeply about their child, but Mary had many different resources and they also approached motherhood differently. Joys positive influential parenting affected the author's choices in life and Mary's negative parenting affected Wes’s choices.

Despite Mary and Joys major differences, there were very noticeable similarities. One way that they are similar is that they are both single moms. There are many difficulties in being a single mom and one of them is that they have to raise their child alone. The struggle with that is that even though they may have other family members to help them raise their kid, their child is still left without a father. “Your father
One main difference is that Mary and Joy reacts differently to how their sons act. “Well, at least now you know how bad it feels and you will stay away from drinking” (Moore 62). When Joy finds out that Wes was smoking and drinking, she doesn't punish him, she only says that she hopes that he learned his lesson. Joy takes a different approach with the author; “my mother had begun to threaten me with military school if I didn't get my grades and discipline together” (Moore 54). Joy took the approach to threaten her son with consequences to discipline him and she did eventually send him to military school and by sending him to military school it taught him many lessons. It taught him to take responsibility for his actions and to be thankful of the pole that are making sacrifices for