Lowg Way Down
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- Long Way Down
- TUPAC
- By Jason Reynolds
- CRIME SCENE - DO NOT CROSS
- 8...7...6...
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- Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds is an award winning 2017 novel. Poignantly written in free verse, it is about a young man faced with a difficult decision. Will Holloman has grown up knowing the Rules of his neighborhood: #1 No Crying, #2 No Snitching, #3 Always seek revenge on the person who has hurt someone you love. After he sees his only brother shot and killed, he feels compelled to follow rule number 3.
- Will is 15 and was hanging with friends when shots rang out: his brother Shawn had been killed. Their mother is beside herself with grief. Will is too, but he can't cry: that's Rule #1. When policemen ask questions, they remain silent. That's Rule #2. Will thinks about Rule #3 and discovers a gun hidden in his brother's middle drawer. He takes it and goes find Carlson Riggs.
- Riggs was Shawn's friend and a gang member. Will is positive he's the killer. In the elevator, Will presses L for Lobby. On the next floor, a man gets on. Will is shocked to see Buck, Shawn's mentor who was shot and killed. Cigarette smoke fills the elevator. Buck wants to check on the gun he gave Shawn. One bullet is missing. A young woman gets on: Dani, his childhood friend. Dani was killed when she was 8 by a stray bullet. Dani asks, What if you miss?
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