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Summary: My review
Review: The Author Luis J Rodriguez grew up in Watts in East Los Angeles. He wrote this book in his early teens and he eventually won the national recognition as a poet, journalist and critic. He lives in Chicago. All of the characters are Mexican people and they all don't go to school. And his friends are in a gang. This story took place in 1950s and in the neighborhood East L.A. this kid has problems with drugs, guns, and other gangs. So he had to be very care full when he goes on the streets. I would advise this book to high school kids because they can teach them a lesson staying at school and getting good education and better jobs. So they don't have to be on the streets all the time and doing drugs. This book tells a lot about drugs and kids over overdosing an the drugs so the kids could stop doing drugs.
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Summary: Compelling and Moving Memoir of A Former Gang Member's Life
Review: Luis Rodriguez's autobiographical account of a gang member's life in Watts, East Los Angeles was the most expressive, powerful, and vivid depiction ever to be told. Through his novel, Always Running he has opened my eyes to the realism of gang life. I mean you see it in movies, the news, sometimes even on the streets, but to read about it and visualize it in your mind is like being there and living it. Through Rodriguez's novel he has shared his life with us, and in hopes of deterring younger generations of turning over to "la vida loca", the crazy life.Rodriguez joined his first gang at age eleven, and by age eighteen, he was a veteran of gang warfare, killings, police, drug overdoses, rapes, Mexican funerals, and suicides. He has watched his friends die one by one at such early ages as he waits his turn of his finalty. The turning point of Rodriguez's life turns out to be when he killed an innocent man as his initiation to a new gang. Because of this he was sentenced to jail where he was able to think hard about what he wanted to do with his. And now look at him he is an award winning journalist and author. but despite his successful transition he later experienced the karma of his childhood when his son Ramiro falls into the wrong crowd in their home Chicago, and joins a gang. Always Running is a novel dedicated to Ramiro Rodriguez and all the other lost children in the world who has lost hope and turned to the hellish streets of gangster life. Through his novel Luis not only shares his life experiences, but he also shares with us how he saved his son. So waste no more and read this very compelling, moving story of a father and son reunion.
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Summary: Always Running
Review: "Always Running' is a stoy about more than simply the gang life in East Los Angeles: it is also a story of overcoming challenges and education.As Ramiro was growing up in East Los Angeles it' was a time when he was overcoming challenges he had done during his teenage years. Grow up in East Los Angeles it was tough. Most of Ramiro time he would spent in the street causing trouble. Ramiro would be expelled from school again and again over several high schools in the Los Angeles area. He would look for trouble in school and then he would be a big bully in class. Then out side of class he started to get rivary against white people. He was tired of American people being better than Mexicans. He fought some white people and then got expelled from school. Ramiro most important thing in life had been lost that anyone wanted him anymore at any school because he was bad for society. In the streets he would get in a fight and then he would run from the cops.Drugs was something that Ramiro would always do. He loved to be high and be kicking it with his homeboys in the streets of Los Angeles. As he was high he would do some adventerous experience like getting in trouble with other gangsters.I think that Ramiro was a bad kid because he needed attention at home from hisloved one like his parents because he didn't get attention at home he would end up in the streets with the homeboys causing trouble. He would go to other high schools In Los Angeles and say he was a new student because he wanted to meet new girls.He loved to meet girls it was his priority Ramiro always was sad because he was tired of living in the poverty line. He was tire of living in the ghetto area of East Los Angeles. There was nothing great to do because without an education Ramiro was going to live in the ghetto area for therest of his life. Now, Ramiro is twenty six years old and he went back to school. He is a poet and travel around the U.S to talk about his life. Recently he was in Chicago poetry event center where more than two thousand people attended. Now, Ramiro has a bright future his first book 'Always Running" was a success so after all he won't be living in the poverty line after all.
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Summary: banned-book
Review: Did you know this book has been challenged by highschools in California, and Illinois? We read this book for a English project where we had to read a book that has been banned or challenged. While part of our group, didn't appreciate the explicit details. It was still a captivating book. The book was superb, and told a true story about gang life. Which was frightening and interesting, because we have not come in contact with gang life. We thought parts of this book were not appropriate for teen-agers in highschool. We do believe in freedom of speech and keeping this book in public libraries. (media centers)
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Summary: Always Running
Review: Always Running, by Luis Rodriguez was a pretty good book. It is a true story about the authors life as a gangster and how he felt that the gang life wasn't for him. The book was well written, his vivid descriptions made me feel as if I were standing there with him. It's a intresting story and a good one tell to discourage youth from joining gangs, as he describe how bad gang life is. Well I don't want to give the story away but I do recommend that you read this book.
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Summary: The review of a manificent book
Review: Always Runnning is a great and magnificent book.This book is actually about the crazy days of gang members in L.A. It is written from the experience of a gang member who went through a lot in his personal life and in his life outside his home.It is one book that portrays so many things that you might think don't even exist. It gives a view of the gang lives in the ghetto. Even if we lived in a ghetto we probably wouldn't know the horrible things that go on.The book also deals with soial injustice along with his own family problems. Luis writing the book from his own experience made it a lot easier for readers to relate to even if they don't live in a ghetto. He made it very clear how dangerous and stupid it is to be in a gang.He also gives us a view of how much violence there is in a gang and how often a person winds up getting killed because they are in a gang. I think this book discourages youngsters from joining gangs because it shows the bad side of being in a gang. The book also has great examples of social injustice, Like how Luis was treated when he first entered school and how his father couldn't get a good job because of who he was.This book has everything you can want in a great book.It leaves you thinking how much people like Luis's family went through just to have a normal life. I would recommend this book to anyone because everyone especially to teenagers and teachers to have their students read it because everyone can relate to things that are mentioned in the book.This is one of those books that you can't put down unless you find out what is going to happen next. It is just an amazing book that leaves wondering about life.
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Summary: MY REVIEW
Review: ALWAYS RUNNING RECIEVE FIVE STARS FROM ME. IT TAKES AN EXCEPTABLE PRICE TO GET ME TO READ MORE THAN ONE CHAPTER IN A NOVEL. IT DEALS WITH A LOT OF SOCIAL JUSTICE, THAT CATCHED MY ATTENTION. IT HAS VIOLENCE, ACTION, ADVENTURE, EMOTIONS, AND A LITTLE BIT OF POETRY. i ENJOYED READING THE BOOK ON THE "E" TRAIN ON MY WAY TO WORK. IT KEPT ME ALIVE AND I STAYED INTO THE BOOK. THERE IS SOMETHING GOOD TO READ IN EVERY CHAPTER.
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Summary: Good
Review: This book is good. But I can't help but think that this is your typical, auto biography about a kids' life in a Los Angeles "Barrio"(or any other place in the country). The book talks about the life of Luis Rodriguez living a harsh life in Los Angeles. Sure its sad that Luis' friends were killed, but dont we all go through loss of loved ones no matter how(graphically) that person died? He went through a lot of discrimination. Luis was in a gang as a form of protection. But then he later found out that life as a gang member didn't pay. That was a lesson that was very hard to learn. Overall this book is very enjoyable because it takes you right into the scene (something that very few books can do). This book is not very hard to read, keeps up pace, and its on point so there is little irrelevance.
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Summary: my review by jonathan
Review: Always Running is a semi-autoboigraphial novel by Luis Roarigues,and it is a true story about his family.This is and interesting and touching story.He had went through a very hard time in his life,and his son was doing the same.He tried everything in his power to prevent that from happening.But because of the society that they were living in,it was a task. Grillo fell in love with a prostute.He really starts to love her. Now he love he more more than anything else in his life.He never knew that she was a prostitue.
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Summary: Realistic
Review: Always Running is an extraordinary book that everybody must read. As you began to read this book, you began to imagine a hood full of gangs, guns, drugs, alcohol and uneducated people that don't care about life. Luis is a boy who, at a young age began to see the cruelty of life. Time can't stop and Luis grew up among people that he shouldn't have looked up to, but he did. His "homies" as Mexicans back in those days used to call each other, were always among trouble and in trouble. The cops harrassed them, beat them and so on. Many tragedies occur trough the book that made Luis turn his life around. This is not like many other books that you have read before. What makes this book different is that the author tells his experience like it is and does not skip anything. Once you start reading it you don't want to stop, and if you do, you always think of what the next thing is going to be. I strongly recommend this book to everyone because this book tells it how it is and, indeed, it made a big impact in my life and I believe that it will do the same for you.
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