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BOOK TALK
By Kim Tran & An Pham
LONG WAY DOWN
By Jason Reynolds
Genre: Fiction
Short story but written in poetic way
LONG WAY DOWN
The summary
Rating & Summary
It's a novel in free verse that tells the story of an African American teen boy at a crossroads. Determined to avenge his 19-year-old brother's death, Will, age 15, takes his brother's gun out of their shared bedroom to kill the person he's certain is the murderer, but it's a long way down in the elevator.
Rating:
Will, William
Will, William
Main Character
- fifteen years old
- who has a nineteen-year-old brother Shawn was shot and killed the day before
- who follows his family's rules to revenge for his brother
Name: Cycle of Revenge
Performance by: Convulse
I think this name of the song is suitable to the story that I was reading.
Music
The Rules
NO.3: REVENGE
Important quote
"If someone you love
gets killed,
find the person
who killed
them and
kill them ( Reynolds 33)."
Real World Connections
Real world connections
- Gun violence
- Cycle of revenge