Free will is defined by a person making their own choices without any fear of destiny. This concept usually comes up when someone does something wrong or makes a mistake. Free will is depicted through the lives of both Wes Moores. Some believe that they both had the choice to decide how their lives would turn out. It could be said that the other Wes Moore did not have a choice in how his life played out; that because he was constantly surrounded by drugs and violence, there was no way out for him. The narrator was able to escape through military school and that was his choice to make. But was it really?
Wes Moore began to slack in school and his mother shipped him off to military school. He did not want to go and tried to escape multiple times. In a way, his mother forced him to attend and blackmailed him into staying. The other Wes Moore, however, was not pressured into doing anything. Everything he did, whether it was getting involved in the drug system or trying to turn his life around by joining Job Corps, was all his doing. His mother never forced him to go to school nor did she discipline him as much as the narrator's mother did.
To most people, it seems as though the other Wes Moore had the power to stop himself from ending up in jail. In a sense, he did because all the events leading up to his arrest were all a result of his own choices. The narrator did not have the choice to go or not to go to military school; that was his mother's decision. If seen closely, the other Wes Moore had more free will and his personality is a depiction of his true, authentic self whereas the narrator's persona is highly influenced by his family and the military.
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