The Other Wes Relationship

Although his father wasn’t in his life completely, his simple time before his father passed away did have an effect that would be considered or parallel to the relationship the other Wes had with his brother, tony. This relationship wasn’t the negative relations like with tony, but one that was positives in the time that we remembered. Wes wanted to be like his father even when his father wasn’t there, and the other Wes wanted to be like his brother tony who was there. Their ways of dealing without a father, both Wes’s took their mourning through different mean when growing up. The other Wes, felt that the major difference although they both grew up without a father is that, “Your father wasn’t there because he couldn’t be, my father wasn’t there because he chose not to be. We’re going to mourn their absence in different ways.
(Moore, 1).” The other Wes Moore and the author Wes Moore, although went away in different ways, during this time in which they grew up, they still felt that longing loss of connection that a father could really only