Will's Impact On Will In Long Way Down By Jason Reynolds

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RAWHIDE DOWN RAWHIDE DOWN was written by Del Quentin Wilber. This story is about when President Ronald Reagan was shot in a assassination attempt on March 30th, 1981. President Reagan survived because of the quick actions of Secret Service men and doctors. The main character is Ronald Reagan.

I was a child once and I probably still am considered one, but I have emerged out of the innocent stage of childhood, a period so dear to my heart. I believe that everything we are, everything will ever be is ingrained into this phase of our lives, which inevitably will mark us forever. Throughout the book Bad News Bears in Breaking Training wrote by Josh Wilker the reader gets an insight to the author’s childhood and the way he links it to the movie The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training produced by Leonard Goldberg.

In the section “The Parts That Really Matter” of The Boys in the Boat I noticed that Daniel James Brown starts moving the story along faster, which correlates greatly to the section title. In addition to this, he also uses paradoxes in order to portray the complexities for rowing. For example he states that a shell, which is “powered by unusually large and physically powerful men or women-is commanded, controlled, and directed by the smallest and least powerful person in the boat” (178). What this shows is that the coxswain has to control his crew members whereas in other sports, team members are more equal. When he explains that “as the tempo accelerates, the penalty of a miscue… becomes ever more severe”, which the author uses to reveal another unique quality of rowing.

In his paper,"Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space," Brent Staples clarifies how for the duration of his life, others have oppressed him in light of the fact that he is a tall, dark man who fills in as a writer in a transcendently white field. As he clarifies, he initially acknowledged the amount of his appearance terrified others, especially a white lady, when he used to take late night strolls as a graduate understudy. While he comprehends that we live in a society that has turned out to be progressively savage and perilous, he feels disappointed that dark men, specifically, are as yet being judged and misconstrued in view of their appearance alone. For instance, he refers to two occurrences where he was mixed

Shawn’s Footsteps Following the murder of his brother, Will is overcome with sadness. In an effort to seek justice and make sense of his loss, Will embarks on an elevator ride down seven floors, encountering a series of ghostly visitors who challenge his perceptions and force him to confront the cycle of violence that floods his community. In Long Way Down, Jason Reynolds explores how Will envisions a different path than previous generations through the flaws of his brothers.

It was March 1963 at Mississippi State University. I was going to class early to get in some last minute cramming before the test over chapter 14. Even though my friend Eric Swan and I study all night. Eric was my best friend from high school. Eric and I did everything together, except when he was with his racist friends.

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In particular, Llewelyn Moss and Sheriff Ed Tom Bell lives are disrupted by a drug deal, causing them to re-evaluate their values and choices and ultimately learn that fate cannot be changed but chosen, making the cycle of literature that Frye proposed. Moss’s life was changed when he found roughly two million dollars at a busted drug deal. With this amount of money, Moss’s life can be changed forever but that money belonged to drug dealers, and they were after the money as well. Moss blinded by the trauma of

Will’s brother was murdered and he wants to get revenge on the person who killed his brother, Shawn. He then goes in the elevator that leads to the lobby of his apartment complex. Which leads to Will seeing ghosts. Although some may argue that Long Way Down should end by Will following the rules, the best ending for this story is Will breaks the rules. Will makes many different interactions with people who he knew that died.

Every floor that the elevator stopped at introduced a new character. All of the characters were telling their story of how they died, and telling him it is not worth going through and committing murder. This is because they all know that he will end up in the same place they all ended up, dead due to the cycles of violence in the hood. According to study.com, “The mystical element of the ghosts is used to give shape and power to Will's thought process during what would otherwise be an uninteresting elevator ride.” The use of people in the form of ghosts shows that Will is starting to learn that the cycle of violence in the hood will catch up to him.

The theme of Jason Reynold’s novel “Long Way Down” is that the continual repeating of mistakes and the repetitive nature of violence, shootings, and deaths in Will’s neighborhood must come to an end. It is the rules of the neighborhood that drive this horrible cycle of revenge and continue to destroy the living. The rules are no crying, no snitching, and revenge. The first rule, no crying, implies that one should not cry regardless of how challenging or sad the situation is. As for the second rule, no snitching means you won't inform the police or anyone else about anything you hear or see what’s wrong.

In his community there are three rules: No crying, no snitching, and always take revenge. Will, determined to kill his brother’s killer, goes into an elevator to find who he thinks killed Shawn. While in the elevator, he sees ghosts of people he once knew. They were all victims of The Rules. One person was his uncle who was shot.

Towards the end of this dream, Will comes across a zombie that she describes as, “...dressed for the best day of her life in a torn red gown. Her crown is bet and broken and her sash is too faded to read.” (page __).