This week I have been reading "The other Wes Moore" again, by Wes Moore. I do not like it as much as I did the week before this one. At the end of the book, it just explains a scholarship that Wes won because he learned about the way people lived in Africa, and the way it was healing from a dictatorship through a semester in Africa. Then it ended abruptly, just concluding that good Wes got to go to Harvard while bad Wes spent his time in jail. A way the book could have been better was if he had gone into "present" time and gone through the rest of the interview that stretched through the book.A couple of things I did enjoy about the book. I really liked the fine details mixed into the perspective of the narrator. It explained the use and selling of drugs as a game, one that once you got in, you couldn't get out. Another is the way that the book "compacted" time, making it so you could see how things changed in the two boys lives. Such as the point in the book when good Wes went to military school, and the other dropped out of high school. The book showed it as the good Wes finally catching a break in his education, and the bad Wes going down the wrong path.
A few thing I disliked about the book. Bad Wes's mother's un-care for her sons well being. Like the easy, and even sometimes non-punishment for things that I think most people see as over the top bad behavior. Of course, the abrupt and annoying quick ending of the book that made it seem as though he was either running out of pages or time. The random small details that would be stretched on for two to three pages.
What led you to read this book?
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