Always Running “There are choices you have to make not just once”- Luis J. Rodriguez In 1993‚ Luis Rodriguez wrote an autobiographical book Always Running. Within months the Book Banning made Always Running their number one target calling it ungodly‚ antifamily‚ radical‚ and harmful. Rockford school district member‚ Ed Sharp‚ went to the extent of stating‚ “I challenge anyone who knows how the mind works‚ after reading this book‚ not to be more likely to assume the lifestyle of a gang person
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Always Running In the novel “Always Running”‚ by Luis R. Rodriguez‚ the author is the main character. He explains his life story to show others how he overcame many challenges that brought him down. Over all‚ the author achieves his purpose to reach out to his audience on an emotional level. I think he does a great job in emotionally touching his audience. The novel begins with Rodriguez dedication his story to all adolescents that were once in his place. Rodriguez finds himself lost at one point
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Non-Fiction Novel Summery I read the novel Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez‚ a non- fiction novel about Rodriguez’s life as a child when he crosses the border of Mexico at the age of two with his family. As Rodriguez took me on a rollercoaster through his life‚ I experienced many upsetting emotions even to me such as; disgust as he describes the police‚ fear during gang wars‚ pride when he makes a difference in his community and sadness when he loses some of the people he loved. I think
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expect that the history in the development of human beings would involve dividing them into different races‚ and certainly God would never have expected the fact that race became a societal issue as to how minorities are being bullied. In the book “Always Running” wrote by a Mexican-American‚ Luis Rodriguez‚ he records his early life as one of the gang members in the City of Angel‚ Los Angeles. He attempts to use his story to show the racial oppression and violence of the gang members‚ and more significantly
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won’t go the same way he did and end up like him. He also writes about all the bad things he did and what happens to his family‚ and how he does not want that to happen to his family‚ and also he hopes that this book would make young people turn away from this life‚ even if you’re not a gangbanger. When reading this book it really made me think about the life we live today in the United States. How most of the young people don’t think about what could happen to them if they get into gangs‚ also
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community and make it a better place are not approaching the problem in the best way. “Thousands are hacking at the branches of the problem; few are working at the roots.”( Thoreau); Many who wish to eliminate gang violence are not willing to do it from the root; they are either too frightened‚ or find it is easier to blame the gang members than to blame themselves. First Paragraph: The people are forced to live in a society who looks down on them due to their economic stand; many of this people
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June 6 2013 Author Luis J. Rodriguez was born in the US/Mexico border in 1954‚ at the age of 2 his family moved to Los Angeles California‚ around the age of 8 they moved to San Gabriel Valley. One of his first documentaries is the Book called “Always Running La Vida Loca: Gang days in L.A”. The book narrows the struggles of the author during his childhood and adolescences in the active life of a gang member and of Chicano race. The author’s motivation to write many of the books he has written were
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In “Always Running”‚ a former gang member named Luis J. Rodriguez writes about his rough past. He joined his first gang when he was eleven years old‚ and saw many of his friends die one-by-one as a result of the dangers of being in a gang in east L.A. This broke him down and made him weak‚ but he had no one to share his emotions with which resulted in his joining of a gang. He killed an innocent man for the sake of being in a gang‚ spent several months in prison‚ and participated in numerous shootings
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In ALWAYS RUNNING‚ Luis J. Rodriguez offers a loosely organized but thoroughly wrenching account of his experience growing up in and around Watts and the Las Lomas barrio‚ just east of Los Angeles. Rodriguez‚ a poet and journalist who now resides in Chicago‚ was born in 1954 in El Paso‚ Texas. His parents‚ recent immigrants from Mexico‚ soon migrated to the Los Angeles area. There‚ Rodriguez experienced the indignities of poverty‚ prejudice‚ and nearly unchecked police brutality. Joining a gang and
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In Los Angeles‚ California there are more than 450 active gangs made up of different races. In 2005 LA had 600 members that were white and only 11 gangs is from. But in LA there are 21‚790 members that are Hispanics and there are 264 gangs made up by Hispanics. The title of my main work is Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez is about the gang in La and he lives in a struggle environment‚ racism occurs in his lifetime. Despite the school board’s recent sentiments regarding the lack of value that fiction
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