After reading Always Running, I got a better understanding on how environment can affect mentality growth. I mean, I always knew that it was a thing, but after this book, I can get a better grasp at the concept. Also, it was amazing to read, and interesting to see the inter-systems of these gangs and their philosophies. What I know is that, this wasn't a rags-to-riches autobiography. It was a detailed explanation on the intricate inner mechanisms of factors of factors that led Rodriguez into la vida loca. It was a list of all the memories and regrets Rodriguez has, and has reinforced my ideology on forgoing presumed judgements because you can never really tell what a person has been through. Apart from the other books I've read at school (Flowers For Algernon and Of Mice and Men to name a few), this book didn't really finalize its feeling of depression and gloom. It was all-round melancholic, but never-the-less gave a larger feeling of hope. Here we had an author who poured his heart out, describing how he had to face violence and terror everyday at such a young age, but still managed to find himself amongst the chaos, and seek education, and a life away from all of that. At the end when Rodriguez finally moves on from his life as Chin, I can see that he finally stopped running.
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