The Book 'Always Running' By Luis Rodriguez

Why Non-Fiction is better than Fiction “It ought to stand...as a permanent testament to human courage and transcendence.” And what a great story it tells.” My book is Always Running and it is an autobiography by Luis Rodriguez. The book explains Luis’s past as a gang member in Los Angeles in the 1960’s. He was involved in crazy gang violence, such as rape, shootings, drugs, and got arrested multiple times. The school board needs to ban fiction from the curriculum because as readers read more fiction books which has made believe things, it has the new generation of kids thinking of things outside the box like how people can escape from the cops. People will try to do what the main character did in the book and then realize it’s a made up book and has that action for entertainment. Firstly, Gang violence is not the solution and therefore people will get in trouble. I get my source from the book Always Running by Luis Rodriguez “All right, this is the sheriff’s" the boys were being chased by the police because they trespassed. A sign at a basketball court read “NO ONE ALLOWED AFTER 4:30 PM, BY ORDER OF THE LOS ANGELES SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT.” The author's purpose …show more content…
I insist that libraries should get biographies and autobiographies since kids can witness how real the world really is. Gang violence can get you killed, In the book Always Running an autobiography, Louis’s friend died by a cop doing criminal activity. The world is not a joke and you can seriously get hurt, in the book it mentions the bigger gangs Louis joins will mean even worse crimes. Gang violence is something very serious and dangerous, Luis is preventing another person to live the way he did. The meaning of this was to convey the reader to prevent dangerous situations, and foresee what obstacles are in the way of a bright