51 pages 1 hour read

Jason Reynolds

Long Way Down

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

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Part 4

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Part 4: “5”

Part 4, Pages 149-170 Summary

The cloud of smoke created by Dani and Buck fills the elevator, so Will can’t see the next person to get on. Suddenly, he is wrapped in a headlock. He feels as if he is choking. The mystery man laughs, and Will is angry, until he hears the man calling him nephew. It is his Uncle Mark, his father’s long-dead younger brother, who pulls Will closer, wanting to look him over. Uncle Mark is big: “Six foot four / Six foot five / (Six feet deep)” (160). He tells Will, “Look like your damn daddy” (160). Uncle Mark loved movies—he videotaped everything. He wanted to make a film, and through that project introduced Will’s father to his mother, Shari. But before Will can be too sentimental, Mark asks about the gun in his waistband.

Part 4, Pages 171-192 Summary

Will recalls the story of Uncle Mark’s death. He lost his video camera and didn’t want to work or ask for money or steal a new one. So he started selling drugs on the corner. He only planned to do it for one day, but of course the money went to his head.

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