52 pages 1 hour read

Jason Reynolds

Long Way Down

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2017

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Essay Topics

1.

Long Way Down is a novel written in verse. How does Reynolds use poetic form for emphasis?

2.

How does Will judge The Rules? Why does he enact them but refuse to claim them as something he and his male family members helped create and perpetuate?

3.

What does Will’s mother’s eczema symbolize in the novel? Why is it significant?