Always Running Analytical Essay

Over the years children have to come to a point where they realize life is not as innocent as they presume. Luis Rodriguez and his brother in the monologue Always Running portray the theme coming of age more effective than his poem “Race Politics” because in the passage, it is more effectively symbolized that Luis learns as tough as people present themselves, everyone has a weakness and the monologue gives more detail on Luis coming to grasp that some people’s reputations are more significant than the feeling of the individual. The story displays that learning comes from experience. Furthermore, the story Always Running descriptively shows that Luis learns that everyone at a point becomes vulnerable. Luis’s brother, Rano, is a tough nine-year-old and Luis follows his
The memoir gives descriptive defeat of the brother begging for his reputation to stay intack. Rano is more concerned with his reputation than all of his bruises when he begs his brother to not tell anyone. “It was his one last thing to hold onto, his rep as someone who could take a beating in the neighborhood and still go back risking more-it was this pathetic plea from the pavement I remember.” (Rodriguez 34) Luis comes to terms that his brother is a coward because the only aspect he cared about was for people to not find out about the horrendous situation. The memoir descriptively shows his brothers “pathetic plea “compares to the poem which does not let the reader conclude Rano’s emotions when he says, “My brother then forced me to promise not to tell anybody.” (Rodriguez 66-68) The poem does not portray Luis coming of age from the experience like how the memoir shows Rano begging pathetically for his bold status. Not only does the memoir give how Luis see him as pathetic, but in the story he says “I remember” meaning that he can specifically remember his coming of