Always Running: La Vida Lca: Gang Days in L.A by Luis Rdriguez Petry is a means f fcusing n mments that are drawn frm extended experiences t frm a brief, cncise, immediately cmmunicable feeling. Few achieve this as well as Luis J. Rdriguez, an East Ls Angeles pet, nvelist, and Chican activist. Rdriguez has gained his pwerful language frm his childhd in the barris f Ls Angeles, a twenty-eight year prisn sentence fr three cunts f attempted murder, time spent in the inner city f Chicag, a Navaj Reservatin, and then back t East Ls Angeles. His life has been ne f gang banger, drug abuse, theft, stabbings, shtings, hmelessness, and near-death experiences frm drug verdse. He has earned his scars: he wants t share them in hpes they will lead him back t a man wh demands respect. Rdriquez’ language is harsh, brutal, intentinally ugly, and in the end, pitiful. Yet it is in this particular cmbinatin that allws his pems t find their cmbustible energy. They shw his life’s jurney frm victim t perpetratr, t witness, t revlutinary.
At the basis f his wrk is nw the palpably virulent need t reach his sn in an attempt t prevent a repetitin f his wn ‘la vida lca’. This bk is gd fr thse wh are heading in the wrng way in life. Rdriguez wrte this bk t try t teach his 16 year-ld sn wh was making bad chices. Hwever, his sn cmmitted suicide. It relates t peple wh are in gangs and shw that there is anther way t life t succeed rather then depending n a gun fr their rest f their life. It shcking be read abut beatings, shtings, arrest, sexual affairs and much mre. Streets might teach smene hw t defend themselves frm vilence and being “tugh.” Hwever, mst ften the street will lead smene int failing and might even end up dead.
The Essay on Gang Violence 2
No one attempts to see the factors such as poverty, homelessness, lack of opportunity are a major contributor to crime and the forming of delinquents in our community. Delinquency is defined as a failure to what law or duty requires. It is a behavior that is often times a result of poverty and inopportunity in youth’s life. Often time those who can obtain what they need through conventional ...
While trying t fllw and being lyal t the street laws that mst gang members set up fr thse wh jin their gang, they will tend t end up nwhere- by themselves with nthing r dead..
