Outside Reading: Always Running #5

Overall I really enjoyed reading Always Running. Being able to read this book and at the same time have my marketplace of ideas topic to research more about gang violence I felt like I was able to get great and accurate information about this topic in all different places. For my marketplace of ideas project, where I tried to build awareness of the problem, I was able to do that by learning about the organization called ceasefire where they try to end all the violence, and since they started in the city of chicago there has been a huge difference. I learned different things from the book, because in the book i was able to see specific stories from one persons experience. The movie and the project I did was a way broader experience, and with the two things I think I was able to learn a lot of the same topic in two different points of views. One thing i did like about this book is that after all of the bad things that happens in his life, he turns his life around. "I finally graduated high school, quite an achievement"(220). That really was an achievement and then he went on to write this book. it shows that its possible to go from the bottom and change your life. In a way its inspiring that I was reading a book writing by a gang member who lived these real experiences and has lived on to tell the story, and warn his son and people everywhere how the gang life really is.