Week 4-It Calls You Back

My strategy rally helped me better understand Rodriguez therefore allowed me to better understand the decisions he made within the book. Before find out more about his personality I thought of him as a troubled Mexican boy joining gangs and doing drugs to be cool, and because he wanted a family. After doing some research and following my strategy, I was able to see another side of Rodriguez and truly understand the reasoning behind some of his decisions whereas before seemed ambiguous. violence and was able to move on from it, why di he allows his son to fall under the gang influence also? Also I wondered if because of his reasoning for joining a gang, he might have “turned away” when he noticed his son starting to be affiliated with gangs, knowing his son might build a sense of community within his gang? Of course it is an absurd question to ask but when I was previewing his follow up book, It Calls You Back, I noticed his son fell under the influence full knowing that his father did the same sparked the question of whether or not Luis watched form the sideline or not. I thought this assignment was very helpful because not only does it allow the user to explore more in depth but help the user better understand what he/she is reading.This assignment led me to ask an additional question. If Luis knew the hazards of gang