The Other Wes Moore: First Post (pages 1-45)
Please respond to each of the questions below. Responses should be at least one paragraph . Number your responses so that it is clear which question you are answering. 1. What drove author Wes Moore to write to the prisoner Wes Moore? Why do you think prisoner Wes Moore wrote back to the author? 2. What was the fate of author Wes Moore’s father? Do you think his father might have survived under other circumstances? 3. Author Wes Moore states, “Soon it became clear that the Riots were about more than the tragic death of Dr. King. They were about anger and hurt so extreme that rational thought was thrown out the window – these were people so deranged by frustration that they were burning down their own neighborhood” (19). Does this “deranged frustration” make sense to you? Are there places in today’s America that feel like this? 4. Author Wes Moore talks about the Bronx in the 1980s and early 1990s as an apocalyptic place to be with drugs, burned out buildings, and crime ev