A Study Guide for Jason Reynolds's "Long Way Down": Presenting Analysis, Context and Criticism on Commonly Studied Novels

by Gale Cengage Learning

A Study Guide for Jason Reynolds's "Long Way Down", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

38 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 17, 2019

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Gale is an educational publishing company based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, the United States, in the western suburbs of Detroit. It was part of the Thomson Learning division of the Thomson Corporation, a Canadian company, but became part of Cengage Learning in 2007.

The company, formerly known as Gale Research and the Gale Group, is active in research and educational publishing for public and academic libraries, schools and businesses. The company may be best known for its full-text magazine and newspaper database, InfoTrac, and other online databases accessible from schools and libraries, as well as multi-volume reference works, especially in the areas of religion, history and social science.

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Reviews

[Kayla]

A long way down by Jason Reynolds is about William realizing the rules should not be passed on. William and his older brother Shawn live with their mother in the hood. Their father was shot and so was Shawn. Shawn taught William the rules the first one is no crying the second is no snitching and the third is always get revenge.
This book makes me think of how hard it is to change how people think because of how long it took to make Willam release how wrong the rules are. It also took him a while to realize that he could be wrong about who killed Shawn.
I liked how the author made it easy to understand that the rules are horrible and are responsible for people dying. It's inevitable that people will keep dying because someone will always want revenge. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read.