Brief Analysis Of Caesar By Marcus Velez

Chapters 1–5 introduce an average boy who would become a remarkable man. Born in 1917, Louie Zamperini was the child of Italian immigrants. Growing up in Torrance amidst poverty and anti-Italian bias, Louie got in the habit of running outside the law. He started smoking when he was 5 years old and drinking when he was 8. He stole anything he wanted—mostly food, money, and whatever else he could find. He ran small scams and vandalized property. Pete, Louie’s older brother, became concerned.

In this book, Luis Rodriguez deals with a problem that he is always targeted by the police. The reason why Luis is targeted by the police is because he is in a gang, which makes Luis become a bad influence to others. For example, “It never stopped, this running. We were constant prey, and the hunters soon became big blurs: the police, the gangs, the junkies, the dudes on Garvey Boulevard who took our money, all smudged into one.

Luis was growing up into the life of gang banging, gaining a reputation in San Gabriel by being scouted into bigger gangs in the area. Increasing his involvement in the gang by stealing form stores, to eventually being part of premeditated arson and murders. Luis was well on his way to a life in prison or worse, death. By growing up during a time of racial discrimination, options were limited to becoming a factory worker or gangster. Luis met

Rodriguez begins to become more involved in his classroom by his new grip on the English language. He shares fewer and fewer words with his mother and father. His tone now transforms into guilt. As Rodriguez's public language becomes more fluent, he forgets how to speak Spanish. "I would have been happier about my public success had I not recalled, sometimes, what it had been like earlier, when my family conveyed its intimacy through a set of conveniently private sound.? He begins to break out of the cocoon as a slow or disadvantaged child and blooms into a regular kid in his white society that only uses English. He feels a great sense of betrayal of his Mexican past. His connection that held him so close to his family is destabilized.

Perhaps justice is a bit of a stretch describing Javier Garcia’s future involvement. Looking to make the man pay, it appears that the plan hatched by Agent Pride will make him choose a side. He either needs to be part of the cartel or turn on them to save his own backside. Agent Pride recognizes that Garcia will do anything to save himself and what he currently needs is money.

This separation from his family caused a longing in his life. But this longing was superseded by what he suspected his teachers could give him. Rodriguez develops a double personality of sorts. The person he is at home, the polite child who lovingly does what his parents ask of him. And then the academic persona he

Del Castillo is going from one drug lord story to another. Previously starring as a drug cartel boss in a television series

Although the book’s titular character is Oscar de Leon, he shares chapters with his sister, his mother, his college roommate, Yunior (revealed to be the book’s narrator), and his mother’s parents, the Cabrals. By representing a family with different personalities—Oscar is overweight, and nerdy while Lola is powerful and independent, for example—Díaz creates a microcosm for all Dominican immigrants. Each chapter (and character) in the past is melded into the story in the present, and in this way, the momentum and excitement is never lost until the very last

In his first novel, the story takes place in an under privileged and impoverished neighborhood of East Harlem New York. The main character, Julio Mercado who is called by his nickname “chino” is an Ecuadorian/Puerto Rican husband and father to be who is working part time at a local grocery store while attending community college. He dreams of somehow making something of himself, owning a home and escaping the grasp of the neighborhood and hardships associated with it. Throughout the novel Chino struggles with where his loyalty should lie, with his wife and unborn child or with the streets he had grown up in and his friend “Sapo” who was his friend since childhood. He in some way feels guilty about dreaming of getting out of El Barrio and making a better life for himself and his family because everything he loved and learned in his life came from there. His best friend Sapo who he loved and respected was a high school dropout who turned out to be a drug dealing street hustler who aligned himself with who Chino referred to as the slumlord of the neighborhood, Willie Bodega. Sapo introduces Chino to Bodega, who has a love interest in Chino’s wife Blanca’s Aunt Vera. He wonders if he could upgrade his lifestyle

The odds are stacked upon Luis Rodriguez, an upcoming sixteen year old that has found himself in the world of gangs. Luis is a human, and it is expected that he would make many mistakes in his life, however when given choices, he always seems to choose the wrong one and never learns from his mistakes. The theme of Luis Rodriguez’s autobiography, “Always Running,” is that many people feel like they are alone in the world, and that the world is always against them, but there will always be people that will stand in your corner and help them achieve what they were meant for. He proves this by including examples from his childhood and the mistakes he has made and the supports he has had.

Again, conflicting influences have Luis in a precarious situation, but he has established a support system through his community involvement, and begrudged legalities keep him from long-term incarceration. Grillo had already been locked up and struggling through the system process he just wanted it all to end. Locked up inside a cage made him feel lost and worth nothing. His mom visited him with tears seen him behind bard made her feel at her worst but she knew he was safe, she couldn’t wait till he got out eventually he did. As time passed by Luis got recognition for his writing and art he ended up getting a scholarship, he then got put in charge of painting and writing projects. In chapter 10 Grillo decided to move away from everything. At the end him out of all the friends ends up getting freedom. Everyone else is stuck in the system or in the streets. Due to all his actions he ended up realizing that he could do better that he can be someone in life all of the events happened for a reason they made him change for the better not just himself as a person but those around him as well. All of the violence just leads him down the road of destruction and drug use lead towards him almost taking his life due to the entire struggle. It sucks when you have to use drugs just to be happy; he went through a lot coming off from a Mexican young boy with him and his family living a bad life, not having enough money to pay for rent at times. The hard struggles of his father obtaining and keeping a job was hard moving place to place just to be suited down and live a stable life. Through out the built up of Grillos education he struggled and lead towards violence because they made fun of him or bullied him. These struggles made Grillo join a gang with his start off friends. Grillo went through all this knowing he had potential to do good but choose to do bad and at the end he changed for the better for a better

follows the life of a boy named Matt Alacrán throughout the first fourteen years of his life. In the country Opium during a futuristic time period, Matt lives with his “mom like figure” named Celia, who is actually a caretaker and housekeeper at the residence of El Patron. El Patrón is a very wealthy man who is 148 years old. He manages to live for so long due to his production of eejits, which are clones that he relies on for transplants. With his need to live, Matt is created as a clone. The everyday circumstances that everyone else face, become magnified to a much greater extent for Matt since he’s a clone. Since Matt is technically El Patrons life, he gets special, precautious treatment. This special treatment vanishes when Celia and Matt ally their forces to cease the transferring of organs between Matt and El Patron. El Patron died and Tam Lin, the bodyguard of Matt, was ordered to kill Matt. Since they were close, Tam Lin helped Matt escape to quickly get across the border. Matt just makes it across the border but is put into a home with other orphans. There he makes friends with three boys named Chacho, Fidelto, and Ton-Ton who are partners in his escape. When they finally escape from the boneyard, Matt reunites with Celia to be told that he is not a clone anymore, but a human that is now the owner of Opium.

Catalina was known for his notorious brutality for his time in the army. This brutality and efficiency impressed many of his superiors one of which included his brother Don Miguel de Erauso, who was the secretary of the governor. Over a three year period Catalina earned second lieutenant, but due to his temperament he was no longer welcome in the city. Catalina’s captain was killed in a battle in Puren and Catalina took command effectively winning the battle but this got her into trouble because of Catalina’s policy of no prisoners he killed a leader which he was ordered to take alive so he was not granted the privilege of permanent captain and was suspended with half pay. This suspension led him to his drinking and gambling problems which he would eventually regret. Catalina had gotten himself into a fight and killed a man, then took sanctuary in a church for six months until he was asked by an officer to serve as a second in a duel which would ultimately become the worst offer he had ever accepted. The battle began in a dark alleyway and attacked the offending second. Upon killing the opposing second he’d realize it was his brother

Márquez uses the character of Angela Vicario to show the power women can possess over the men in their lives. Angela Vicario is arguably the most powerful character in the novel, as she is the one who tells her brothers that it was Santiago who took her virginity, which consequently sets the entire plot of the story in motion. After Angela is returned by Bayardo San Román to her family due to the fact that she is not a virgin, when her brothers ask who it was who took her virginity, Angela “nailed [Santiago’s name] to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written” (Márquez 47). The way in which Angela searches for Santiago’s name shows that it may not have been Santiago who had taken

I choose to research “El Pablo Escobar”, because his lifestyle caught my eye. I instantly caught interest in wanting to know more of what he’s like. Other people in the world think El Pablo Escobar was born from hell, I think he was a person trying to survive in this cruel world. We all do things that we’re not proud of, but that’s just the nature of life. We do unusual things that some people just don’t understand, some of us grew up poor or mentally abused in our own mind. Creates people like El Pablo Escobar who become so violent in nature, they become the wolf not the sheep. I’ll be also writing about the way he grew up to become so successful in the person he became, and the ways he gained power.