Always Running: La Vida Loca Gangs Days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez. As a teenager , he was active in the Lomas gang, one of the largest Latino gang in Los Angeles. As a teenager, he witnessed different type of changes in his life and knew only a life of violence. Luis J.Rodriguez title his novel Always Running because Grillo the main character run away from drugs,violence and gang. One of the ways the main character is Always Running away is that he uses drugs to relieve his pain. Grillo uses drug to escape from all his problem he was going through. For example in Chapter Four Grillo states “spray was dangerous; it literally ate your brain. But it was also a great escape. The world became like jello, like clay something which could be