Review Of The Book 'Always Running' By Luis J. Rodriguez

Always Running

Throughout life, people are always running away from situations. Some of whom take extreme measures in order to get away from the things that are affecting them, such as breaking the law or ending up self inflicting harm to themselves. For instance we can get a viewpoint of these actions from the novel Always Running by author Luis J. Rodriguez. In the novel, grillo the main character has a series of events where he is constantly running from the law, reality, and his past, thus justifying the title of the book.

One connection that the narrator illistartes to the novel title is when grillo is constantly depicting himself running from different occasions. For example in the beginning chapters of

For example, throughout grillos childhood he had endured a lot of trauma and as a result he faced bullying, discrimination, and the lack of family presence. For example, when grillo was six years old he faced some hard times in school. One of them being bullying, and that was because of the new language he wasn’t really used too. Grillo also had hard times communicating with the teachers, so when he needed to use the restroom he always ended up peeing on himself making him get all the unwanted attention and resulting of kids screaming directly as grillo as stated in (p.26) “Kids screamed out a chorus of “P.U!”, which really took a toll on grillo. As well as his language barrier, grillo at a young age came to America from Mexico and was facing discrimination and was treated differently from the other students in class as well as the teacher because of then accents that made him completely different. As shown in (p.26)“She complained about not having any room, about the kids who didn’t even speak the language,” this shows grillos language separated him from others. Lastly, the lack of family presence that his family had on grillo at a young age he had to become a young man at a early age. Grillo then at a young age started to experience with drugs trying to run away from his reality that he had endured as a child, as grillo states on (p.81) “ I had come home in a stupor of