Outside Reading: Always Running #2

For this blogpost I wanted to focus on the Authors realtionship with his brother. When they were younger they never got along, they would fiit and it seemed like his brother got everything, "my brother and I were moving away from eachother. Our tastes, our friends, our interest, were miles apart. yet there were a few outstanding incidents I fondly remember in relationship to my brother, incidents which despite their displays of closeness failed to breach the distance which would lie between us"(49). the incident im going to write about is one that both brought them close and separted them. They were young boys who were confronted by these white boys on the street.The Author, Luis, stuck up for his older brother Rano, Rano said, "You didnt have to defend me to those dudes, they're assholes. They aint worth it. Luis answered him and said, "I did it becuase I love you"(51). Luis said, "I looked at him and i told him something i never, ever told him again"(51). He felt compassion for his brother, he wanted to stick up for him like a gang member would stick up for their gang brother, and thats what he did for his older brother, but Rano didnt feel the same way. It seemed like he wanted to be able to defend himself. He didnt want his little brother looking better and fighting fights for him. He didnt need anyone fighting fights for him. Its sad because Luis fought to help his brother so they both make it out alive, not to try to be better then him. Its sad because Luis did love his brother and it didnt seem like Rano felt the same way, at least he didnt show it.