Introduction
Always Running is Luis J. Rodriguez’s first non fictional book where he provides first-hand account of his experiences as a Mexican-American growing up in East L.A. Rodriguez, documented this memoir in 1993 about his youth as a gang member so as to steer his teenage son, Ramiro, from a gang group "la vida loca," that he had joined. The book has ten chapters. Chapter 1 provides the introduction and lays a general discussion about Rodriguez’s childhood (Rodriguez’s, 1993). He describes himself as a boy belonging nowhere. He strategically sets out his goal in the introduction and in the subsequent chapters contributes ...
