At the age of three, Wes's father collapsed and died at home from his throat swelling shut in the Maryland suburb. Things got really hard around with their dad. Joy (Wes's mother) got really overwhelmed. She was fretful about their neighborhood and where crime was heating up. She called her parents in the Bronx one day saying, "I need help." Wes and his family moved to the Bronx later on. Living in a different house with different people in charge just made the rules stricter. But Wes did find his ways around them.
Wes is a very hopeful person in my point of view. I believe he is a hopeful person because he did have a troubled childhood but he did manage to do better with all the flaws. In the book it says, "Showing leadership brought added benefits, and it turned out that Wes could lead. A star basketball player, he was the youngest starter on the high school varsity team. He became president of his senior class and climbed in military rank." That paragraph right there shows how Wes has done better and accomplished things he wouldn't have if his mom didn't send him to this program. Staying in the streets would just create more struggles for him.
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