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This is about a boy who's brother is shot. He believes he knows who did it and the rules of his community are that if someone is killed, you kill the person who did it. So, he gets a gun and is talking himself into commiting murder. But when he gets on the elevator to travel down to where the person he thinks responsible is, he is met on each floor by a ghost of someone that is related to the story of his brother's death.Top Ten Best Fiction". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). February 14, 2018 . Retrieved January 8, 2022. A graphic novel edition of the book, illustrated by Danica Novgorodoff, was published October 13, 2020.

Canfield, David (December 12, 2017). "The 10 best YA books of 2017". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved January 9, 2022. Now, two days later, Will is heartbroken and desperate as he abides by "The Rules" he's been taught all of his life; he won't cry and he won't snitch. And, most importantly, he plans to follow through with the third rule:"if someone you love/ gets killed,/ find the person/ who killed/ them and/ kill them." He finds a gun in Shawn's dresser—one bullet under a full clip—and sets off to kill the person who killed his brother. The last person who enters the elevator is Shawn. What does Will tell his brother? How does Shawn respond? What rule do both brothers break? Do you think Shawn wants Will to avenge his death by shooting Riggs? Explain your answer. New York Times Bestselling Author Long Way Down, by Jason Reynolds, Atheneum Books for Young ReadersThe subject was about revenge and how our main character decides either to do what he is having in mind or not. We see the conversations that he is having with some certain people that they were in his life at one point, and how they help our character in the taking of the decision.

It said what should be said about such a tragedy, but I was remembering the same strong message being shouted loudly by movies like Boyz n the Hood in 1991 and Menace II Society in 1993. Thirty years ago. GreenwichFiction. "School Library Journal's Best Young Adult Books 2017". Chicago Public Library . Retrieved January 9, 2022. Gewapend stapt hij de lift in van zijn appartementsgebouw om zijn eigen verdachte van de moord op zijn broer te gaan confronteren. De rit naar beneden duurt 67 lange seconden. Op elke verdieping stapt er iemand die Will kent. Bij het horen van een ieders verhaal begint Will steeds harder te twijfelen of hij wel goed doet aan het volgen van De Regels. SECONDEN doorbreekt grenzen, zowel inhoudelijk als vormelijk. Jason Reynolds snijdt het confronterende onderwerp aan van geweldadige milieus, waar jongeren vaak ongevraagd in terecht (en meestal geboren) worden, van hoe moeilijk het is om de vicieuze cirkel van geweld en wraak te doorbreken. Graphic novels hebben vaak een beperkte verteltijd, en dat maakt het soms een hele opgave om lezers emotioneel bij de keel te grijpen, ondanks de versterkende werking van beelden. Reynolds en Novgorodoff slagen hier dik in. Ik was even sprakeloos toen ik de laatste bladzijde omsloeg en moest alles even laten bezinken. Dit verhaal was ruw en confronterend, want het is levensecht. Het trekt je als lezer, die vaak ver weg leeft van dergelijke omstandigheden, uit je comfortzone en dwingt je de ogen te openen, dwingt je na te denken over de fijne grens tussen zinloos geweld, geplande wraak en zelfverdediging.

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Written in verse, Long Way Down is breathtakingly gripping and spectacular. You almost read it without breathing; the action is so tense, the language so powerful. The author Jason Reynolds has said that he planned not to write boring books, so young people who think they hate books will learn that they don’t. He’s succeeded in his aim by a million degrees: this is one of the most exciting books written for young people or anyone. Give it to every teenager you know! All that, and the illustrations by Chris Priestly add to the haunting quality just perfectly.

Reynolds held the idea for Long Way Down for years before finally writing it. In 2003 when Reynolds was 19, he learned that a friend had been murdered. [3] Speaking of the moment, he said he and his friends felt "an anger, a pain, like a cancer metastasizing by the second, spreading around [them] and through [them]. [They] knew his death had changed [them] chemically, and that [they] could do, perhaps, what [they] never knew [they] could do before. Kill." [3] Reynolds continued, This was incredible. Not only is it so emotional and well-developed, but oh my god, the writing is so good. At the beginning of the novel, Will reflects that the story he is about tell will either make readers want to be his friend or not want to be his friend at all. After you finish the book, write Will a letter telling him which one is true for you and explaining why.

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Jason's skill at putting words together that grab your heart and head, bringing you into the lives of his characters, kids just trying their best to do what's right and live the way they've been taught, astounds me. Long Way Down is no different. This book is going to have an impact. The type of impact that makes you question what you thought you knew and how life can be. This is a must-read and must-share in classrooms (7th & up), especially in those rooms where you have teens who are living Will's life with the rules he's been taught to life by. Using details revealed in the text, create a character sketch or character collage of the book’s protagonist. Een woordje van waarschuwing: deze graphic novel bevat vermeldingen en beelden van geweld, moord en vuurwapens. a b Anderson, Kristen. "Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds | SLJ Review". School Library Journal . Retrieved November 28, 2018. Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Cumulative List 1988-2022" (PDF). Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award. April 6, 2021 . Retrieved January 8, 2022.

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