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

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

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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?

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

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