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Always Running Book Analysis

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Always Running is a memoir written by Luis Rodriguez about caution gang life in East Los Angeles.Fiction needs (or needs not to be) included in the curriculum because it has important information on how it could change someone life in a gang trying to change it all around.The message of the book is that gang and violence lead us to nowhere.Gang’s are all over the world with people mostly dying because of gangs and drugs handed out and arrested for being in a gang to many people aren’t doing the time but they can do the crime.Many people have life issue dealing with gang’s around their neighborhood hearing gunshot everyday but no one saying anything. Exploring a life with violence and murder instead of being a regular person to be healthy.

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