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 provides‚ fiction should remain in the school’s
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Anh Le Professor Anna Rogers English 48 November 10th‚ 2014 Reading Journal – Always Running – Second Week (Chapter 3-5) Summary: Luis describes his life as part of the gang‚ saying that he and his friends are in a vacant lot they had claimed as their own‚ furnished with old sofas and covered by plastic to keep off at least some of the rain when an old car comes by. Two of the group go to the street to get a better look and one‚ Clavo‚ is shot in the face. Clavo loses an eye in the shooting. Luis
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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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the United States. How most of the young people don’t think about what could happen to them if they get into gangs‚ also if they keep on doing bad things like he did. At the beginning the book was really boring and hard to read‚ but once I got pass Chapter 1 and 2 it’s when all the action started to hit and when it got really interesting. I could really relate to this book in very different ways‚ like how at the beginning of the story he did not speak English‚ and how he felt around people who did‚
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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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themselves with gang members know them on first name basis‚ keep an eye on them and the place where they hang out‚ as well as offering programs for this gang members to get involved in‚ that wil pursue a carrier on law enforcement. Rodriguez‚ Luis J. Always Running: La Vida Loca‚ Gang Days in L.A. New York: Simon & Schuster‚ 2005. Print. "Sin Nombre (2009) - IMDb." The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Web. 05 Dec. 2011. . the movie helps understand the background of the people involved in gangs‚ it shows
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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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entertain their audience? As a reader you want to be pulled in and experience the thrill in the author’s texts. You want to understand why the author decided to do what they did. In the short story “An American Childhood” by Annie Dillard and “Always Running” by Luis J. Rodriguez‚ they utilize many action verbs‚ different forms of figurative language‚ tone‚ and structure to engage the reader. Dillard and Rodriguez uses active verbs in their stories to bring out how they felt about being chased by
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