Is our problems violence within gangs, violence within ourselves or violence within society? It could possibly be all three in one. We fight for what we believe in. We fight for what we do not believe in,for example many girls and guys to not believe in love but still fight for a certain person just to keep them by their side. At the same time we do not want to be an outcast, so we fight for what other people believe in. In society we simply fight for the need to just to fit in. In the story Always Running by Luis Rodriguez, it shares the themes of equal opportunities , poverty, and violence, which also the poems “ I am Joaquin” and “Watts Bleeds” share. Equal opportunities means that each one of the Chicanos fought to be treated the same as the Americans, “Gringos.” Poverty was them
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In the book Always Running by Luis Rodriguez he says, “ Do it! Were the last words I recalled before I plunged the screwdriver into flesh and bone, and the sky screamed (111).” This means that Rodriguez had to stab someone with a screwdriver even if he did not want to. Rodriguez was feeling pressured, and he hit the guy with the screwdriver just to fit in with the gang. Who does not want to feel a part of a group ? At one point to fit in teens feel pressure to do illegal stuff or do drugs. In the poem “Watts Bleeds” by Luis Rodriguez, he says “ Where I learned to fight or run, where I zigzagged down alleys, jumped over fences, raced by graffiti on crumbling factory walls.” What this means is that violence helped Rodriguez learn how to fight and run to protect himself. Rodriguez was involved with gangs which he had to learn how to run and fight. In both the poem “Watts Bleeds” and Always Running by Luis Rodriguez he had challenges in the book he had to stab someone with a screwdriver and in the poem he just states how violence made him run away and how violence helps him
In the book Always Running by Luis Rodriguez he says, “ Do it! Were the last words I recalled before I plunged the screwdriver into flesh and bone, and the sky screamed (111).” This means that Rodriguez had to stab someone with a screwdriver even if he did not want to. Rodriguez was feeling pressured, and he hit the guy with the screwdriver just to fit in with the gang. Who does not want to feel a part of a group ? At one point to fit in teens feel pressure to do illegal stuff or do drugs. In the poem “Watts Bleeds” by Luis Rodriguez, he says “ Where I learned to fight or run, where I zigzagged down alleys, jumped over fences, raced by graffiti on crumbling factory walls.” What this means is that violence helped Rodriguez learn how to fight and run to protect himself. Rodriguez was involved with gangs which he had to learn how to run and fight. In both the poem “Watts Bleeds” and Always Running by Luis Rodriguez he had challenges in the book he had to stab someone with a screwdriver and in the poem he just states how violence made him run away and how violence helps him