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Always Running La Vida Locan Gangs Chapter Summary

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Always Running vs. Changing Chicano Gangs

In the novel “Always Running La Vida Loca Gang Days in LA” by Luis J Rodriguez. The noval talks about how Rodriguez joined a gang in an early age and eventually was sent to prison and begins to think about his life and how he needed to turn it around while writing a letter to his son. The purpose of this novel was to send a message to his son on what it 's like as a gang member and where it 'll take you. In the journal article “Changing Chicano Gangs: Acculturation, Generational chance, evolution of Deviance or Emerging Underclass by Joan Moore. The journal article speaks on history of being a gang member and what the families are like and how things go for them, just a lifestyle of a gang member. The …show more content…

“The Impersonations..’ it was something to belong to that was our. We were not in the boy scouts, in sports teams or camping groups. The impersonations is how we wove something out of the threads of nothing.” The impersonations was a gang that the author and his group friends at the age of 13, from starting it on their own, they took pride for where they came from. Eventually they got close to other small gangs like theirs and formed as one calling themselves “The Animal Tribe” as that time hit the author rodriguez tells how he got himself into much serious trouble. “I don 't mind paying for my mistakes...sometimes we pay even when there 's been not mistake just for being mexican. That 's all the wrong i have to do” This specific text stood out to me the most because as sad and as stereotyped it is people outside of a mexican culture believe all mexicans have a bad rep mostly those who portray themselves as gang members. Some are not even gang members nor have no knowledge of that lifestyle but what it is, is their language or attire is a certain way that 'll eventually have most people stereotype

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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.

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Challenged Book: Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days In L.A. In the book, Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days In L.A, written by Luis J. Rodriguez, the main character Luis Rodriguez, experiences a crazy early teen life of being a gang member in East Los Angeles. Luis Rodriguez describes La Vida Loca, which means “the crazy life”, through the gang culture, the endless shootings he witnessed, beatings, arrests, and also through murder, drugs, and suicide.

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Mary Romero’s article explained the criminality and the images that Latino/a youth have before knowing the individual. We see a lot of crimes and murders that were made by officers towards people of color, specifically, in this case, Latino/a. In the Latinx community, we have a lot of disadvantages. Not only based on the color of our skin but also the fact that majority of Latinos in this country are immigrants. According to Romero, Latino youth was always seen and described as criminals since WWII.

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The author based his investigation on criminologists, ethnographers and anthropologists criteria to argument his outcomes which add a solid framework to the entire project. I think the book suggests that there is a lot to do and it’s time to change unsuccessful methods. Despite of some critics, I think “Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys” is an obligatory reading to all people who really want to understand the whys and hows of most of young men who are labeled as criminals and live in marginal neighborhoods. This material also has the merit of describing the way these youths have to coexist with a lot of disadvantages to make a change and get a positive progress in their

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Also, from my observation of the author’s interaction with the gang members, he acted in a way, that was out of respect, and in no way condemning of the gang members or their culture. He befriended them and truly showed great interest in their personal lives. He also knew that he couldn’t’ approach these gang members in a hostile manner, as he learned this from a gang member, who stated that “You can’t just walk into the neighborhood and act like a tough guy, you get beat up.” Moreover, I also observed that the author seemed mild mannered, and certainly did not come across as this know it all, arrogant researcher. I can only imagine how scary this entire experience may have been for him, but nonetheless, he allowed himself to “hang around” the gang members as they drove him around their dangerous neighborhood.

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The majority of adolescents think that they don’t need any adults to help guide them as they grow up due to the fact that they have lacked an influential adult in their life but this mindset ultimately gets these kids nowhere because the lack of support from adults can be what impedes their growth. This can be seen in Luis J. Rodriguez’s, “Always Running”, which follows his life as a young Mexican-American L.A. gang member in the 60’s. Throughout the book, readers can see the lack of involvement from adults in Rodriguez’s life and even being the cause of his constant struggles in his life. That is until Chente, who works at a community center to support young gang members, entered his life and became one of the most impactful people to get

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In the nonfiction novel, Always Running, Luis Rodriguez elaborates on his personal life experience in L.A. gangs. Always Running contains atrocious detail and powerful, poetic, passages, that leave each reader impacted and potentially speechless. Rodriguez’s work is not only literary, but takes a stand to political issues that continue to be faced in today’s society. Luis was not given easy paths even as a young boy. This novel goes into explaining the shootings, jail time, suicides, addiction of hard drugs, discrimination, and the constant deaths, in which Luis has to experience almost daily.

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Always Running Final Paper Today it isn’t difficult for a Chicanx or other minority to get a degree or create a prosperous life for themselves through hard work, but back in the mid-1900s, that was not the case. The American Southwest in the mid-1900s was not the most inviting or friendliest place for Mexicans and Chicanos. Many were born into extreme poverty or already came impoverished, many were degraded and sometimes dehumanized by racism, and many felt like they did not belong in the land of the free. Often times, young Mexicans and Chicanos had no choice. They had to resort to roaming the streets, doing drugs, committing crimes, and joining gangs in order to feel like they belonged and to give meaning to their lives.

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In the United States, every year there are around 2,000 gang-related homicides and in the realistic fiction novel, The Outsiders, by S.E Hinton, it explores the issues of gang violence, and teenagers in gangs. Around 40% of all members in gangs are teenagers, who are getting involved in some dangerous things very early in life. In the novel The Outsiders, the “Greasers” which is a gang of all teenagers, fight other gangs and commit serious crimes such as murder. We as a society need to pinpoint why teenagers join gangs and stop them beforehand. We also need to help people get out of gangs if they are already in one.

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Although Rodriguez maintains his original private identity, this public addition through deliberate adequation allows him to identify with a broader group that has access to greater opportunities. As mentioned by Rodriguez in the text, “I became a man by becoming a public man” (Rodriguez, 1982, 6). By becoming a figure with the

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There were so many cultures that stood out, but the one that was the most interesting was gang culture. There is one gang that I would like to talk about and that would be MS13 which is the Mara Salvatrucha. This is a combination of Mara, meaning gang, Salva, for Salvador, and trucha, meaning street smarts. The name also comes from peasants who fought in the 1980-1992 civil war that raged in El Salvador (The Sun). The gang members have many different ways they communicate with each other.

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For example this quote “Mexican Americans or Afro- Americans were considered dangerous radicals while law- abiding citizens to drop their cultural baggage at the border.” explains that when natives they drop all their ethics and traits to fit in. Image is everything early on, but not fitting into the community again is hard. The author also writes to persuade readers that that she is a true Latina, because she tries to take spanish lessons. Mexican Americans are also seen as people with little education and poor.

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