Luis J. Rodriguez is an author who had a hard life with the exposure to drugs,gangs,and violence at a young age and in 1993 he became alcohol and drug free and started to get his life together.Luis has written twenty books most of them were biographies the book I read “Always Running” was a biography about his life and how he was exposed by thing he should've not been at the age he was. What struck my attention was for a few main reason one was that it is a book that is based on my race and the movie “Stand and Deliver” a movie that i watched in two different classes, In english we talked and read about Martin Luther King Jr. and how the equality for African American were not equal as American but in the movie and the book it talks about how mexicans who were born in the barrio were automatically considered lower- class and not inteligente. The effect of living in a bad environment such as East Los Angeles Luis J Rodriguez is one of the main character , then there is Rano or other known as Jose he was Luis’s brother who always had a face that showed no emotion what so ever, Ana who was luis’s younger sister she was known as …show more content…
They basically absorb all of the smaller gangs in the area. When Luis wants to leave because he's found a better way to live, they won't let him go. They threaten to kill him. Throughout the entire story it is the gang and their expectations that keep Luis and his brothers from moving on toward becoming productive citizens and good family members.The main idea of this story was luis’s life as a boy who took the wrong path in life and joined a clica or a gang and the coming of age which also represent the decisions he made and how he learned from his bad decisions and became more mature . Some of the conflict he faced while growing up was the dangerous environment he lived but also how he knew he could of said