Title Justification Essay #3

The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
Title Justification Essay #3

The third and final part of the book, The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore is entitled "Paths Taken and Expectations fulfilled". In this section, Moore describes dramatic life choices that would impact the lives of both Wes'. From the beginning, the reader is aware of the opposite fates of the two Wes Moores. This section explains how each Wes ended up where they are today. Wes Moore titled this part of the book "Paths Taken and Expectations fulfilled" because the chapter shows the ways that our choices send us on alternate paths.
            Based on the decisions both Wes' made, each took different paths, fulfilling different expectations. The author Wes Moore picked the wrong choices until he was set on a different path by attending military school. From his military school experience, Wes changed his behavior and gained initiative and responsibility. By the end of the section, Wes has clear ambitions to, "... stay at Valley Forge and attend its junior college... go through the early admissions commissioning process, receive [his] associate's degree, and become a second lieutenant in the Army." These changes and ambitions caused people to alter their opinions of Wes and gain new and higher expectations. More people began to realize that Wes was capable of success. On his new path, the author Wes was able to fulfill these expectations, becoming a Cecil Rhodes scholar, studying abroad, and gaining becoming one of the youngest officers in the army.  The other Wes Moore began his life making similar wrong choices, however his path differed greatly from that of the author. The other Wes Moore didn't take advantage of the opportunities given to him and instead continued to participate in a life of crime. Wes was a part of a violent drug game that caused people around him to expect a negative future for him. Even Wes knew that people expected him to deal drugs, "The people... would line around the corner for drugs... He knew these people because he was the one who got them what they needed. It was his job." Wes's path made it easy for people expect for him to fail. In the end, the other Wes Moore fulfilled these expectations and is living the rest of his life in prison where, "he knew he no longer had control over his destiny." Even though the Wes' made the same wrong decisions early in life, their paths were completely different and in the end, they fulfilled opposite expectations. 
              This section of The Other Wes Moore is title "Paths Taken and Expectations Fulfilled" because the section describes the paths that each Wes took and the expectations that they fulfilled. The decisions the Wes' made caused them to live their lives in completely opposite ways. The author Wes is successful and educated while the other Wes Moore is serving a life sentence in prison. This section of the book really shows how their parallel lives are both related and completely different. The choices they made are what makes the Wes' so different. Each man chose a different path with the opposite destiny.