https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6 As you read Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds, create a plot diagram of the events that unfold as Will tells his story. Include images to help retell Will's story. en-us 2020-10-26 19:51:06 UTC 2026-01-27 01:58:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/797989615/ad813424417c0ccebfe52e9a9be2a7df/Long_Way_Down.png bobbievang https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/863409842 Will is telling this story in first person point-of-view. He says two days ago, his brother Shawn was shot and killed.]]> 2020-10-26 19:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/863409842 bobbievang https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/863409844 Will compares losing his brother so quickly to being physically tortured by a stranger. This is the extended metaphor he uses to express this pain. "A stranger got you strapped down, got pliers shoved into your mouth, gripping a tooth...a big important one and rips it out...the worst part is the constant slipping on your tongue into the new empty space." The tooth not being there symbolizes the hole in his heart that his late brother, Shawn once filled.]]> 2020-10-26 19:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/863409844 https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/867428932 First, Will and his friend watch as his brother Shawn is shot and]]> 2020-10-27 20:02:43 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/867428932 2913085 https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/867429361 "Gunshots make everybody deaf and blind." Will knows that everyone is aware that it is better to be mute than dead. He knows that if he speaks to the police, he will never speak again. Nobody wants more blood than there already is, especially their own, or of their own.

]]> 2020-10-27 20:02:51 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/867429361 https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/867429991 Will faces the conflict of avenging his brother by getting revenge/ killing Riggs, the person who killed his brother Shawn. This is a huge conflict for him because he has trouble doing so as he doesn´t have it in him to kill another person. As he goes down the elevator, on his way to Riggs, he encounters(or hallucinates) the spirits of his loved ones. The spirits help him realize that if he chooses to kill Riggs, then he will end up like them: dead. Although it´s not directly stated, I can infer that Will learned that murder isn´t the way to honor his loved ones.]]> 2020-10-27 20:03:04 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/867429991 https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/867430138 The moon
Will mentions how the moon was so bright and how resembled hope. The night Shawn died the moon was off. There was no shining bright moon to give him hope that night.]]> 2020-10-27 20:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/867430138 https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/867433206 on the poem "I wrapped my fingers". His grip on the gun is compared to the grip of two brothers holding hands.]]> 2020-10-27 20:04:06 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/867433206 https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/867435431 In the chapter " THE YELLOW LIGHT" the lightning bugs represent Shawn and WIll and being trapped in a "jar" is being trapped in their neighborhood/living situation. The rest of the lighting bugs in the jar are their friends or family.]]> 2020-10-27 20:04:50 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/867435431 https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/867436140 will wants revenge for his brother and killing the person who killed his brother]]> 2020-10-27 20:05:03 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/867436140 2907751 https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/867448377 Will uses the elevator as a metaphor for his decent into the world of the rules of revenge. He's scared of the "elevator", and Buck tries to comfort him by telling him it has always been that way, it's always been long and slow.]]> 2020-10-27 20:08:51 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/867448377 2912751 https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/867551831 The reference of when he said "the moon is lucky it isn't down here", I believe that he referred to the moon not having to deal with the situations and problems that he is dealing with.,

]]> 2020-10-27 20:43:36 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/867551831 https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/867588363 Will was at Riggs house planning on killing him because Will thinks that Riggs killed his brother Shawn]]> 2020-10-27 20:57:40 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/867588363 https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/868317090 When Will runs into Buck, who he though was dead. He can't believe it but soon does. Though Buck doubts his abilities when he figures out what Will wants to do with the gun. ]]> 2020-10-28 04:12:24 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/868317090 https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/868514468 Will grabs a gun from a drawer that belonged to his brother, which was given to him by Buck.

]]> 2020-10-28 06:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/868514468 https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/871171449 Will and his Uncle Mark were reenacting/ speaking their lines on what was going to happen when Will pulls up on Riggs. When they got to the part where Will was supposed to say he was gonna shoot Riggs, Will didn't have it in him to say it. I feel like this is foreshadowing the event of when Will faces Riggs.
 ]]> 2020-10-28 19:38:26 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/871171449 2953950 https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/872354320 in the end will or william was dead the whole time and the ending messed with me because I thought he was alive the whole time.]]> 2020-10-29 07:50:56 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/872354320 https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/877857806 In the end of the story it says how William or known as Will was already dead and that shocked me because the whole time I was thinking he was alive.]]> 2020-10-30 20:42:45 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/877857806 https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/884961156 will takes his brother's gun out of their shared bedroom to kill the person he's certain is the murderer, but it's a long way down in the elevator]]> 2020-11-03 04:46:36 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/884961156 https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/884961346 2020-11-03 04:46:42 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/884961346 2913399 https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/899262531 Will and his friend watch and his brother shawn is shot to death so he plans on revenge and goes to Riggs house with a gun to kill him.]]> 2020-11-06 21:45:22 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/899262531 2970314 https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/910771254 2020-11-10 22:05:23 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/910771254 https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/918749989 Will stumbles upon Buck who was presumed dead and asks Buck to borrow a gun to "deal with" Riggs while Buck doubts he'll be able to do it.]]> 2020-11-12 22:50:45 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/918749989 https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/964288296 Will was planning on killing the murderer of his brother Shawn who Will thought was Riggs.]]> 2020-11-26 20:07:27 UTC https://padlet.com/SUSD/bs6vzqzyogcutod6/wish/964288296