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How do you think your life would be without books? Just think about it for a minute. No books, that means no good story telling, no creativity, electronics all day, and more. Well, that might happen if all the fiction books get dropped. The school board does not think fiction books are apart of the curriculum anymore. One might say books help people be themselves and helps the writers get their stories out. For example Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez is an autobiography and a fiction story. By Luis writing this book it helped him share his story and for other people to connect and see how that story is so real.
The book always running has a lot of messages. By Luis writing this book it helps us get an insight of how the world could really be. Some of the messages would be that gangs and violence lead to nowhere. Also, if people come together as a community you can also save a lot of the children. This book also shows the insight of how racism is very bad and is all round the world. “Sometimes we pay even when there 's been no …show more content…

For example there is a lot of white cops shooting and killing innocent black people. Just like this book everything is revolved around mexicans and cholas. Police killed at least 102 unarmed black people in 2015, nearly twice each week. Also the gang violence today is still going on. As the book mentioned it was a lot of gangs and killing and ect in LA. Today the same things still goes on in LA. Los Angeles is considered the “gang capital” of the nation. There are over 450 active gangs in LA. “During the last three years, there were over 16,398 verified violent gang crimes in the City of Los Angeles. These include 491 homicides, nearly 7,047 felony assaults, approximately 5,518 robberies and just under 98 rapes” clames the Los Angeles police Department. To summarize a lot of things that happens in books still goes on

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