Wes Moore Character Analysis

When you are born, you are thrown into conditions that you don’t have control of, poverty, family issues, war and conflict, these are just some of the things that you have no control over. However, you do have control over one thing, How you respond to these situations. But as you can tell, these situations all bring their own, unique challenges, and there can always be more than one. But one of the hardest situations for most to respond to would be poverty. Poverty brings not only one challenge, but it is very dynamic, and gives birth to a wide array of crippling problems for people Like Wes Moore.

But, before we go into detail about the problems that poverty gave Wes and his family let’s focus on what poverty is to Wes. Poverty is lacking
It was his mother and family, who stood with him during these tough times and gave him expectations that were not lowered no matter what he did. He was taught to remember his actions and learn from them and went back home to a household with a mother who he knew he could rely on. But he too was too close to falling down the same path of the other Wes Moore. He too was skipping out on school and doing other activities, but his mother never backed down from what she wanted of him, a young man that she could depend on and that wouldn't get his head in a dark path. So, she put him in the only place that would shield him from the truths and problems that comes with poverty, Military School. In military school there were no drugs, no bad influences, and no skipping out from it, and people who expect even more of what his mother did.

Poverty is something that will bring you down a dark path if you let it. It’s needs and problems will only pile if you don’t take action. In poverty there will be people holding you up and providing you a platform to grow, but it is up to you if you want to step off of their help and into the life of uncertainty that comes with it. But in poverty the most important thing you can have, is people who will provide you with a good platform and lead you to stay with it, and not people who will stand there and simply not care