Long Way Down

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Books can help teenagers to process sad feelings, especially when they find it hard to talk to adults. Bethany is a certified Special Education and Elementary teacher with 11 years experience teaching Special Education from grades PK through 5. Long Way Down is a young adult novel in verse by Jason Reynolds, published October 24, 2017, by Atheneum Books.

I downloaded this intending on possibly getting to it sometime, but I opened it up out of curiosity and ended up reading the entire thing in about an hour. Jason Reynolds is a New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, National Book Award Honoree, a Kirkus Award winner, a two time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors. I had trouble visualizing the setting for some reason, the writing style in verse lacked something for me. This is perfection, everything is extremely well done from the narrative to the page design, after reading this you will definitely see some changes in your point of view when it comes to the discussions brought up by the author.

The book was longlisted for the National Book Award [1] and was named a Printz Honor Book, Coretta Scott King Honor Book, and Newbery Medal Honor Book, [2] alongside other awards and positive reviews. Told in verse, it takes place over a single elevator journey, as various visitors interrupt his journey to the ground floor. Par exemple si je prenais mon commentaire et que je le détachais en vers, ça donnerait pareil et ça n'a pas toujours grand intérêt. Uncle Mark tries to walk Will through his plan step-by-step and Will finds he can't get past the part where he pulls out the gun.

In Long Way Down, the main character Will has just lost his older brother, Shawn, who was shot and killed. It’s such a powerful metaphor for toxic masculinity and the ways in which it prevents boys and men from knowing how to cope with trauma in meaningful, productive ways – not through their own faults, but because they’re never been shown a better way.

The award-winning, bestselling verse novel is now a stunning graphic novel with illustrations by Danica Novgorodoff. Our main character believes that he must uphold justice for his brothers death, by killing his killer. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

For readers who perhaps don’t find reading that fascinating or find it difficult discover books that reflect their surroundings, because there is so little of it. His vision of art and writing is to see empathy extended, more and more empathy extended, right across all barriers and boundaries. It is a constant reminder that the protagonist is only fifteen, being put into a situation many could never imagine. This was such a powerful read, I hope readers everywhere and of all ages (teen and up) read it and are affected by it in a positive way. The rules that have been set by his family and community, because validation lies there and it’s the only way a situation has ever been handled.And stray bullets had cut through the playground, and Will had tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, and so what she wants to know, on that fifth floor elevator stop, is, what if Will, Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, MISSES. Having read one of Jason Reynolds previous works on police brutality, ( All American Boys) I was expecting another great novel detailing the personal effects that come with losing someone to another’s violence. Reynolds' concise verses echo like shots against the white space of the page, their impact resounding. In addition, the rules forbid crying or any show of emotion, as these are considered a sign of weakness. But on his way down in the elevator, he encounters the spirits of the people in his life who have passed away.