The Other Wes Moore Timeline

The Other Wes Moore Timeline

By:Chris Volak

Turning point Decision

Take school more seriously and go everyday.

Present Me Choice 2

I still play hockey

Past Me Choice 3

Past Me Choice 2

Having cereal for Breakfast, Lunch, and dinner. This is bad for your health.

Cutting my hair, this made my hockey performance significantly decrease.

Past Me Choice 1

Playing Hockey made my time somewhat useful and i was having fun while doing it

Present Me Choice 3

Present Me Choice 1

Future Good Me Option 2

Surrounding myself with helpful people.

NOT watching "13 Reasons Why" against all odds, I manage to resist the urge even under all the pressure.

Start a Business

Future Me Turning Point

Doing Copious amounts of heroin.

Future Me Turning Point

Future Bad Me Option 1

Going to college

I Die

Future Bad Me Option 2

Future Good Me Option 1

I Go To Jail

Getting a degree

The Author Wes Choice 8

Decides to go to Africa

"I had applied for and received a grant to go to south Africa"

The Other Wes Choice 7

Goes to Job Corps

"His quick success had Wes thinking diffrently about his life."(pg147)

The Author Wes Turning Point 2

He decides to run a drug operation

The Author Wes Turning point 2

The Author Wes Choice 6

The Author Wes Turning Point 2

Starts To Take Military School Seriously

Decides Not To Take Military School Seriously

Decides not to take revenge when he gets attack

The Author Wes Choice 5

"But I had to let it go. I had to look at the bigger picture."

The Other Wes Turning Point 1

Decides he wants to try in military school

"I knew my mother was considering sending me away but she'd actually do it."(pg87)

Decides to get involved with drugs

The Other Wes Choice 4

The Author Wes Choice 4

Choices to spray paint graffiti, and gets in trouble with the cops.

Lies about DJing and hides drugs in his mom's house.

"you kids are way too young to be in this situation."

The Other Wes Choice 3

"He'd realized very early in the game that the drug market was a simple supply and demand equation."(pg74)

Decides to get involved in drugs.

"I'm not actually selling drugs at all I'm just talking into a headset."

The Other Wes Choice 6

The Author Wes Choice 2

Choices not to graduate from high school.

The Author Wes Choice 7

The Other Wes Choice 2

Decides to go to college at Valley Forge

Chose to adapt to life in the bronx

"Not surprisingly, without a high school diploma, or job training-and with a criminal record-Wes found it almost impossible to find a job to support his growing family."(pg110)

"My next decision was clear. I wanted to stay at a Valley Forge and attend its junior college,"

Made his brother his idol

"I walked up to the store stairs to see the front door open and my grandparents waiting there."(pg 39)

"Rule number one : If someone that disrespects you send a message so fierce that they wont have a chance to do it again."(pg 33)

The Other Wes Choice 8

Decides to take party in a bank robbery

"on the charge of first-degree felony murder, the jury finds the defendant...guilty."(pg156)

The Author Wes Choice 3

The Other Wes Choice 5

Decides he isn't going to try his new private school

Gets Alicia Pregnant

The Author Wes Choice 1

"you know they are going to put you on probation if you don't start doing better man."(pg 54)

He hit his sister in the face.

The Other Wes Choice 1

"The idea of becoming a father depressed Wes, but he wasnt sure why."(pg100)

"so in the spirit of three year old boys everywhere who've run out of better ideas, I decided to punch her."(pg 5)

He got a job after the government stopped funding his moms school.

"He felt he had to take care of her:his father had been a ghost since his birth." (pg 18)