Chapter 3

The Other Wes Moore: Chapter 3

This chapter starts off with Wes Moore the author, and his new school Riverdale. His new school was a private school where almost all students were white and wealthy. Wes and one of his friends, Justin were the only black kids in that school. Wes explained how he had to lie to his white friends about beomh rich and having a vacation house in Brooklyn. At the same time, Wes had to lie to his neighborhood friends, by saying that he ran the school and he was respected. He said the reason he got suspended was for beating someone up when in reality it was an accident. Wes' s uncles, suggested, that he should invite his neighborhood friends and his school friends to play baseball all together. That did not end well, they ended up in a fight. Mean while the other Wes, moved to a new neighborhood, his brother Tony got shot for the first time at the age of 18. Moving to a safer neighborhood meant, that Wes' s Mom had to work harder, as it was more expensive, and Wes had less adult supervison. One day Wes and his friends decided to ditch school and he was looking for spare change in his mom's room and be found her stash of weed. Wes and smoked weed for the first time that day at the age of 12. Wes smoked so much that he could not walk, or eat. When Wes went home his mom's boyfriend was their, he lived their when he did not live with his wife. Wes used drugs regularly. 

This chapter is differ to the book Outliers, because of the way it is taking place now. Right now both Wes Moore's have not been successful in buisness or career wise.