Discovering Wes Moore

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2012

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Before You Read

Summary

Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Introduction

Chapters 1-3

Chapters 4-6

Chapters 7-9

Chapters 10-11

Epilogue

Key Figures

Themes

Symbols & Motifs

Important Quotes

Essay Topics

How does writer Wes Moore’s mother Joy represent the theme of suffering and endurance and the importance of a support network?

Why do you think Wes Moore continues to think about the other Wes Moore when he goes to Oxford on his Rhodes scholarship?

Discuss the period in which Wes Moore grows up. How is it similar and different to the period in which his parents grew up? In what ways have issues such as poverty and race evolved in America? In what ways are they the same?