Always Running is a very interesting memoir so far. It has met many of my expectations that I was hoping they would meet emotionally. One part that really astonished me, and I mean had a great emotional impact on me was when Rodriguez said that the cops were targeting all of the boys who were at the field. One cop had yelled some horribly vulgar words at him for moving even the slightest inch. The reason that this had such a great impact on me is even though Rodriguez was a good kid and didn’t want to get involved with the gang warfare, he was found just as guilty as the others who were involved. This taught him a serious lesson that even though you may not be doing what others around you are, if one person gets caught everyone else with them is held accountable for helping him get away with it. The way that Rodriguez wrote the passage just was shocking and made me feel what he was going through at the time.
The real impact that this part of the novel had on me was the fact that he learns a valuable lesson from this. At the time he was talking about how scared he was with the cops yelling in his face with their guns in their hands just torturing him. That made me fear for what was going to happen to him even though I knew he was going to come out a better person. The real reason I felt such a strong pull from this section in the memoir was that fact that despite having a gun put to your face and being held as a criminal, the only thing going through his mind wasn’t anger, but disappointment in him for involving himself with these delinquents.
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