Always_Running

Always Running One Author’s Struggle There are choices you have to make not just once, But every time they come up. -Chente In 1993, Luis Rodriguez wrote an autobiographical book Always Running. Within months the Theocratic Right of Book Banning made Always Running their number one target calling it ungodly, antifamily, radical, and harmful. Rockford school district member, Ed Sharp, went to the extent of stating, “I challenge anyone who knows how the mind works, after reading this book, not to be more likely to assume the lifestyle of a gang person and not to be more likely to have sex in the back of a car” (Sharp). Had Sharp truly read Always Running and comprehended the passion, he would understand Rodriguez is only speaking of true life and real events. On the other hand, Armando Solana, a high school student commented on the novel, “Reading this book is like living thorough it…what I learned from this book is to never give up no matter what” (Always Running preface). Luis Rodriguez like many other’s knows first hand that life is not always what its cut out to be. The quick success of his book, Always Running, has running, always, life, luis, gang, book, rodriguez, way, walker, people, one, critics, time, novel, family, ymca, ungodly, understand, stories, school, passion, member, knows, just, himself, harmful, hand, even, barrio, back, within, speaking, sharp, say, rodriguez’s