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  2. Long Way Down follows fifteen-year-old William Holloman during the two days after his beloved older brother is shot and killed. At the beginning of the novel, which is written in verse, Will assures his reader that his story is true, though he suspects the reader won’t believe him.

  3. A summary of the plot of Long Way Down, a young adult novel by Jason Reynolds about a boy who seeks revenge for his brother's death in a gang-infested neighborhood. The summary covers the main events, characters, themes, and symbols of the story, as well as the author's style and themes.

  4. Long Way Down (2017) by Jason Reynolds is a young adult novel in free verse about Will Holloman, a young black boy struggling to make a decision after his brother Shawn is shot dead in the street. Will plans to seek revenge, but before he can leave the elevator of his building, he is greeted by a series of ghosts who confuse and complicate his ...

  5. Long Way Down. by Jason Reynolds. Buy Study Guide. Long Way Down Summary. Written in verse and narrated in the first person by Will Holloman, a fifteen-year-old Black American, Long Way Down opens with Will revealing that his older brother, Shawn, was killed two days earlier.

  6. Long Way Down was inspired by Reynolds’s experiences working with incarcerated youth, whose fates, he acknowledges, could’ve easily been his own. When Reynolds was 19, one of his best friends was murdered on the street.

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