Three Major Events In The Life Of Grillo

Luis Rodriguez, Grillo, lived a long life of violence and drug abuse. But, there are three major events that lead Grillo to want to live a better life are when he first hurt someone with a weapon, almost committed suicide, and had enough of the verbal and mental abuse his school would put him through.
Grillo’s first violent attack with a weapon changed him. In addition, before the incident, he use to just fight, with his hands. Once he got into an altercation with a weapon he changed the way he carried himself. Furthermore, Grillo got tired with just reacting when not everything needed a reaction. He wanted to focus more on what was going on around him. For example, “... I felt disjointed, out of balance,tired of just acting and reacting. I wanted to flirt with the depth of mind, to learn more about my world. My society”(p. 113). This quote shows that he did not like the part of himself that would just act in a situation without thinking, the way he started going about things started getting worse, so he wanted to focus and learn more about his environment.
Furthermore, on page 81 the author states, “ The night before I was in combat with myself, against a dark side, poised for destruction, with death about to tap my shoulder. I tried to commit suicide”. This shows that he had already had the thoughts in the back of his mind about life and death, but being so intoxicated he almost acted upon it. This is important because he did not want to feel at that low point again, instead he got more involved with the clubs at