Chapter 4 Blog

Chapter 4 starts off with a more serious topic and ends with the same topic, suicide. Luis wants to commit suicide because of everything that is going on in his life. The first time he puts a razor blade to his wrist and is about to cut his artery but realizes he is worth something. The second time he uses too much spray and dies for a quick minute. Luis deals with a lot during his younger years, from getting kicked out of his parents house to joining a gang. The pressure of it all gets to him and thinks that if he just kills himself everything will go away. Even nowadays kids deal with depression, bullying or just a lot of stress and it gets to a point where they are scared to speak up and reach out for help just like Luis is in this chapter. He prefers to try the "easy" way to get out of all his worries and problems.

Chapter 3 Blog

In chapter three of Always Running there are two main events that lead Luis into wanting to become a cholo. The first scene is when Clavo gets shot in the head for calling out a big gang "Sangra Diablos." This stirred up more conflict because it made Luis realize that if he stuck by with the small gang that he is in right now they have no chance to stand up to anyone. The second scene is when a group of friends decide to go to the beach and get in an argument with some white beach guys who turn out to be under covered cops. They all end up getting arrested and Luis probably realizes that staying in a small gang is going to do nothing for them. Staying in "Animal Tribe" only means that he will be a weakling to the other tribes, they can't stand up to Lomas or Sangra Diablos so he has to make a choice. Either leave the gang life or join a bigger and badder gang that will help him if he ever gets into trouble.

Chapter 2 Blog

In chapter 2 of the book Always Running the author, Luis Rodriguez, calls his brother "the barrio success story" since he was the only one from his family who actually decided to take the right path. Luis and Rano are two completely different people. While Luis is joining gangs and becoming a bad kid, Joe was starting to become a scholar student, he was good in sports and in school. Rano didn't want to be like his father a big success story who turned out in a struggle. When they moved they moved to a new house in the middle of two of the biggest gangs "Sangra" and "Lomas" where Luis has the choice of whether he wants to go into the gang or stay out of it like his brother Rano.

Chapter 1 Blog

In the first chapter of "Always Running" by Luis J. Rodriguez, the author writes how his "Dad quit school to be with the woman who would later become Seni's mother" It's crazy to think that making one choice changed his whole life and even changed the life of his future kids. By dropping out and moving to East L.A where all the gangs are at he made the choice of living a more harder life. If his dad would've never dropped out of medical school he would have been a successful man who had nothing to do with gangs and his children wouldn't have ended up the way they did. He struggled to get a job mainly because of his race the only work he could ever get was a often a laborer. The whole first chapter focuses more on introducing the whole characters and saying something about them.