The difference between this two women will help explain why one is stronger than the weaker mom, which is very rare because they had the same issues! We will begin about how Joy and Mary Moore handled their problems with their son’s and how and what they did to solve them. The two mothers, Joy Moore and Mary Moore have similarities with their sons. Both mothers worked hard and had trouble finding jobs to provide their home and what they needed for their kids. They’re child’s father’s we’re never there to be able to support them. The difference between facing reality and fear of not wanting to face reality reminds me a lot of Mary. Mary Moore, who enrolled in the Community College of Baltimore but lost her grants, is a mother of three kids from three different fathers. Mary having kid after kid with different men was not a good idea. This caused instability in their lives. This gave their…show more content… When Tony had told her that Other Wes wasn’t getting all his new shoes and money from being a DJ, it was from being a drug dealer. She didn’t want to believe it. Tony gets angry and tells her “Are you serious? You really believe that? Are you blind?” (71) She hoped that Other Wes would be different and in order to hope she needed to push herself to push Other Wes. The other mother Joy Moore, who attended American University in Washington D.C. is a mother of three kids, had two different father’s. Her first one to have a kid with constantly beat her up and cursed at her in front of her kid Nikki, when she was one year old. She gave up on him when she realized that the girl’s fantasy did not exist. “the fantasy that she alone could change her man.” (9) Nikki was the only kid she had with him. At this point Joy did change, she started believing reality ever since she left Nikki’s dad. This was something that made her stronger, she didn’t want to leave Nikki's
