"By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as drugs, murder, suicide, and senseless acts of streets crime 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 of years of violence and desperation."
When I first got the book i checked the back to see what it was about. I discovered that this story is based on real life. That all these things that happened in this story really happened to the author. The way this book describes things that happen when your in a gang, seem so scary. Some people these days think being in a gang is something "cool" and something you should be proud of. But the way this story describes being in a gang it doesn't sound "cool", It sounds scary and dangerous. Something interesting that I read in the back of the book is:
"Achieving success as an award-winning Chicano 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 auto biography that explore the motivations of gang life and cautions against the death and destruction that inevitably claim its participants."
I was surprised that the author had been in a gang in the past and now his son had joined one. I bet since the author has already been in a gang, and knows the bad things that happen, he doesn't want his son going threw all that. Rodriguez fought for his son by telling his story. In chapter one it said that the author had one brother and two sisters. His brother was named Jose Rene and his two sisters were named Ana Virginia and Gloria Estela. His mom and dad had split up. So far the story has been so interesting! Today during class that's all I got to read up to because there wasn't much time.
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