Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
by Luis J. Rodriguez
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Author: Luis J. RodriguezEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-06
ISBN: 0743276914
Number of pages: 262
Publisher: Touchstone
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- ISBN13: 9780743276917
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Book Reviews of Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
Book Review: ALWAYS LEARNING
Summary: 5 Stars
What I found really interesting about this book is that its author is actually the main character of the story, so that makes this memoir more real and specific than any other book. For example, he writes about how he struggled in life, and how he got involved with gangs, drugs, going to jail, and actually getting to the point were he just didn't want to live. He was raised in the streets of East L.A, after moving there from Mexico. I can relate so much to this book as a Mexican. I struggled to move here to start a better life too, that's something that we have in common, it's because of that it got my attention and I chose to keep on reading this book. When Luis goes through being involved with gangs he saw a lot of things. He saw a lot of his friends getting shot and killed, he saw friends get addicted to heroine and some even overdose. He mentions in the book that while attending a funeral that he couldn't wait to die to have a funeral like his friends seemed like an honor to have everyone crying for you and being sad and he would wish for one exactly like it. The reason I not only loved this book, but admired it, is because I have gone through most of everything Luis went through. From crossing the border at a super young age, to suffering poverty, to struggling at school and home, and not knowing when to stop using drugs. The thing that I related to the most was the emotions inside him while using drugs and wanting to loose his life. I related a lot because I myself was addicted to a drug and didn't care about life. It blew me away, because he used his emotions of living life using and doing what he did described my thoughts. He wrote, "Is this how I really want to go in life? Do I really want to leave knowing I didn't try and just gave up if I die, I want to leave knowing I tried and achieved something worth it, I'm too young to think of death or have a bad habit." On a school trip, my class from Opportunities for Learning went to meat Luis, the author and told me those words in person. Which meant more to me and I respect and admire him for taking his time to share his life in this book. Reading the book made me want to achieve more than I have begun.
Summary of Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles, now featuring a new cover.Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, hailed as a New York Times notable book, and read by hundreds of thousands, Always Running is the searing true story of one man?s life in a Chicano gang?and his heroic struggle to free himself from its grip.
By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East Los Angeles gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests and then watched with increasing fear as gang life claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and the power of words and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation.
Achieving success as an award-winning poet, he was sure the streets would haunt him no more?until his young son joined a gang. Rodriguez fought for his child by telling his own story in Always Running, a vivid memoir that explores the motivations of gang life and cautions against the death and destruction that inevitably claim its participants.
At times heartbreakingly sad and brutal, Always Running is ultimately an uplifting true story, filled with hope, insight, and a hard-earned lesson for the next generation.
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