{"id":2468,"date":"2018-02-02T01:39:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T01:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chcslibraryhouse.wordpress.com\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2018-02-02T01:39:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T01:39:06","slug":"long-way-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/2018\/02\/02\/long-way-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Way Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written in the format of poetry,\u00a0Jason Reynold’s\u00a0Long Way Down<\/em> has caught my interests, being the first novel in verse I’ve encountered. Will, the main character, lives in a neighborhood where there are certain rules to follow or else there will be consequences. He is kept there, along with his mother and older brother, Shawn. His older brother is someone Will looks up to, yet some dark secrets are kept hidden in Shawn’s drawer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The rules Will needs to follow include…<\/p>\n

\"Long<\/p>\n

“NO. 1: CRYING
\nDon’t. No matter what. Don’t
\nNO. 2: SNITCHING
\nDon’t. No matter what. Don’t.
\nNO. 3: REVENGE
\nIf someone you love gets killed,
\n<\/em>find the person who killed
\nthem and kill<\/em> them.”\u00a0\u00a0-pg. 31-33<\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Everything changes after his brother is shot, leading to his death that sets a spark off within Will. Sadness has taken another level, taking a form of a monster that Will cannot control. It brings light to Shawn’s character and who he truly is, revealing secrets and what led to his death.<\/p>\n

Will decides to take action into his own hands, seeking revenge for the death of his brother. He suspects it was Shawn’s friend, Carlson Riggs, who has moved to another part of the neighborhood where it’s the most dangerous. The only problem was…how can he do it without getting himself killed? Was Carlson Riggs even the murderer, or was Will just mistaken? How will he make sure that no one will come after him after he kills Carlson as revenge?<\/p>\n

Favorite quotes:<\/p>\n

“Another thing about the rules…
\n<\/em>They weren’t mean to be broken.
\nThey were meant for the\u00a0<\/em>broken
\nto follow.”<\/em>
\n-Another Thing About the Rules, page 35<\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

“People always love people more when they’re<\/em> dead.”
\n-It Used To Be Different, page 43<\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

The second quote is more meaningful for me due to the fact that it speaks the truth in some dark way. For example, Vincent Van Gogh received no recognition throughout his career as a painter, but after his death, people began recognizing his work and he became\u00a0someone<\/em>. He wasn’t a nobody anymore but gained a title.<\/p>\n

While reading this, I felt this anticipation for learning even more secrets that would impact the story.\u00a0Long Way Down<\/em> is one of those novels where you have to pay attention to every single detail or else you’ll become lost, sort of like a detective. It shows the way fear manages to change people and what that can do to you.<\/p>\n

Find out what happens next in the library.<\/p>\n

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Written in the format of poetry,\u00a0Jason Reynold’s\u00a0Long Way Down has caught my interests, being the first novel in verse I’ve encountered. Will, the main character, lives in a neighborhood where there are certain rules to follow or else there will be consequences. He is kept there, along with his mother and older brother, Shawn. His […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ya-reads"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}