Blog 8 for always running

In the novel Always Running by Luis J Rodriguez tells the story of the author's struggle and journey during the gang days of LA. During his teen years, after he was accepted into the gang, he crosses paths with the character puppet, who is the leader of the Lomas locos. Everyone in the gang showed either fear or respect towards the man, as he is the toughest in the whole gang. The author shows this when puppet and toots were playing billiards for money. After toots lost, he took money out of his girlfriends pocket and handed it over towards puppet. Once this happened puppet's girlfriend, Pila, starts to start a conflict with Lourdes, toots' girlfriend. Before anything could happen, toots stopped the both girls from fighting by pulling out Lourdes and pushing her into the corner of the room. Toots does this for two reasons, the first being that messing with Pila will result with Lourdes ending up with a slash to the face or chest, and second being that it may have resulted in him crossing puppet, which toots wanted to avoid the most. It is also implied that puppet hates everyone, whether it be Blacks, Mexicans or Whites puppet didn't like anyone.