ipl-logo

Uncle Mark As Victims In Long Way Down

429 Words2 Pages

In the story Long Way Down, by Jayson Reynolds victims aren’t seen as victims but as future offenders. The story has an interesting take on revenge and karma where perpetrators turn into the next person who gets killed, while the victims turn into the murderer, in a vicious cycle. AN example would be Will’s dad. In the book Will's dad avenges Uncle Mark and shoots who he thinks is his killer. Then someone comes and kills him, to get revenge. On page 212, Will’s dad says, “But I didn’t cry. Didn’t snitch./ Knew exactly who killed Mark./ Knew I could get him./ The Rules.” “The Rules” is a term used in the book and is what guides victims into revenge. Will’s dad is portrayed as both a victim and a Perpetrator. Uncle Mark is the one who got Will’s …show more content…

Someone saw his wealth and wanted it. Uncle Mark was greedy for continuing to sell drugs even when he had enough money for the new camera. Uncle Mark’s greediness is what led to his untimely death. This further emphasizes the idea that victims are never really victims. There is always something that causes violence. Will is currently on the path from victim to perpetrator. On page 176-177 Uncle Mark is talking to Will about his plan to kill Riggs, “He continues for nine blocks,/ gets to Riggs’s house, sees Riggs,/ pulls the gun out, and …”, “I got stuck/ Couldn’t say/ nothing else. Couldn’t say/ it. Hoped Uncle Mark would say/ cut.” Some other victims of this cycle are Shawn, Buck and Will. Will is a victim of Shawn’s death and thinks he is ready to become the perpetrator of Riggs’s death. Will is unable to even say “kill Riggs” so how is he going to actually pull the trigger and kill him? Will isn’t ready so he isn’t far enough along on the spectrum from victim to

Show More
Related

  • Jack The Ripper: The First Serial Killer

    1451 Words  | 6 Pages

    It’s difficult to grow up in an abusive environment, it can impair the child’s self-esteem; it affects them by not having a normal life. One of the causes of serial killer’s experience as children is being abused or neglect. Robert Ressler and Tom Shachtman interview dozens of killers and founded that there was a similar pattern of severe childhood neglect. It’s important in the child’s development process to let them know about trust, empathy and how to interact with human beings. And if not teaching them basic rules growing up it will be impossible later in

    Read More

  • What Is Bloom's Relationship In Big Fish

    453 Words  | 2 Pages

    Will has spent so much time trying to find out the truth about his father in hopes of becoming a better father to his future kids. When his father passed away it

    Read More

  • What Is The Theme Of Long Way Down By Jason Reynolds

    834 Words  | 4 Pages

    When he gets to Will pulling out the pistol, Will is clearly uncomfortable by the thought of taking someone’s life. Mark lets Will visualize the scenario and how he may hesitate and struggle to kill Riggs, making it an important thing Will needs to consider in his decision of carrying out revenge. We are shown how Mark paints Will’s potential future, but the character with the most influence on Will is his father

    Read More

  • Long Way Down Quotes With Page Numbers

    628 Words  | 3 Pages

    Couldn’t be. Couldn’t be“ (Reynolds 80). This passage observes how weirded out and shocked Will is to see one of his dead relatives. At this point in the book the elevator has come to a stop at floor 5 and another one of his dead relatives enters. “Uncle Mark?

    Read More

  • The Theme Of Violence In Long Way Down

    1225 Words  | 5 Pages

    Throughout different chapters of the novel, Reynolds provides readers with Will’s background and how his family’s influence has taught him how to combat encounters of violence in order to overcome them. Within the first pages of the novel, Reynolds introduces Will and soon after the incident of Shawn’s death. In Will’s neighborhood gang violence is everywhere. He grew up with it and knows, “if the blood/inside you is on the inside/of someone else,/you never want to/see it on the outside of /them” (Reynolds 5).

    Read More

  • Relationship Between Sellin And Wolfgang's Typology Of Victimization

    1912 Words  | 8 Pages

    INTRODUCTION Over the course of history, multiple theories have been developed over time to determine the relationship between the offender and the victim. One of these theories is Sellin and Wolfgang’s Typology of Victimization, which states that victims are subjected to their victimization depending on the situations that they are in. “With the emergence and popularity of positivism, criminals were assumed to be differentiated from others in the population...appeared logically consistent with this stance... Scarcely mentioned in that work is the would-be victim as an active agent making choices that affect criminal opportunity—instead, in these theories, criminals made their own opportunities,” (Berg and Schreck 2022).

    Read More

  • Jason Reynolds 'Cycle Of Violence In Long Way Down'

    765 Words  | 4 Pages

    Maybe that’ll change in Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds. A character named Will would have to make a decision if he wanted to stop the circle of violence in his neighborhood, or get revenge for his dead brother Shawn. Will would stop the circle of violence after interactions with his dead relatives, encouraging him that it’s not the right thing to do and he will only hurt more people. Will realizes the fear and consequence behind rule number three. He also doesn’t want to let anyone down, especially his

    Read More

  • Jason Reynolds Quotes

    739 Words  | 3 Pages

    Will father teaching his son that he just met a valuable lesson. Will’s father held at gun point by his father because from his father experiences of shooting the wrong person he does not want his son to make the same mistake. A prime example of selective memory is when Will said “the day before yesterday, when Shawn died, the moon was off. Somebody told me once a month the moon blacks out and becomes new and the next night be back to normal”(Reynolds 22). This quote shows that will select the memory from the day that his older brother died because he said the moon was shut off.

    Read More

  • The Theme Of Revenge In A Long Way Down

    439 Words  | 2 Pages

    He’s convinced that he’s the man that killed Shawn and throughout the story repeats that he’s going to kill Riggs although he isn’t aware of the consequences of revenge. On page 218 Will’s father says, “Uncle Mark and My father looked at me with hollow eyes dancing somewhere between guilt and grief, which I couldn’t make sense of until my father admitted that he killed the wrong guy.” This shows that even though Will is confident that Riggs killed Shawn there is still a chance that he’s wrong and the consequence of getting revenge would be killing the wrong guy. On page 267 it says, “Shawn stuck to the rules, … Bang Bang.” This means that Shawn followed the rules and got revenge and because he got revenge he was killed in an act of

    Read More

  • Interpersonal Communication In The Film 'Good Will Hunting'

    807 Words  | 4 Pages

    Because of Will Hunting’s difficult upbringing, the way he communicates his emotions in his relationships are detrimental for himself and others, and conflict arises in his relationships due to his inability to express his emotions well. Will grew up in a tough environment because of the types of relationship violence he faced. First, he was abandoned as a child and became an orphan. Further on in the film, Will talks about the physical abuse

    Read More

  • What Creates A Serial Killer Essay

    939 Words  | 4 Pages

    However, not every child that is abused turns out to be a murderer, and not every murderer was abused as a child. It is undeniable that many serial killers have similar experiences: one being childhood abuse, and the second, which usually ties in with the first, is neglectful and damaged parental relationships. These factors have been investigated for a long time

    Read More

  • Good Will Hunting: Trauma-Related Disorders

    2098 Words  | 9 Pages

    During the film Will demonstrates anger as well as irritability in a short tempered manner. In a particular scene, Will becomes overwhelmed with anger after encountering an old classmate who bullied him in preschool. Such anger and irritability caused Will’s mind to become blocked during the violent act in which Will also assaults an office. The incident ultimately leads Will unraveling the root of the

    Read More

  • The Unspoken Rules In Long Way Down

    1103 Words  | 5 Pages

    For example, Will and his family have been affected by the rules as Will’s brother, Shawn, and father, Pop, have killed and been killed. Now it is Will’s turn, as he sets out to satisfy his revenge by killing his brother’s supposed killer, Riggs. Though Will has some doubt if he is doing the right thing and if he even has the right

    Read More

  • The Victim Precipitation Theory

    2732 Words  | 11 Pages

    Mendelsohn calls the victim and his offender the ‘Penal couple '. The victim offender relationship may contain origin of victimization. The inhibitions and offender may have seemed to change according to the type of qualities the victim possesses. The attitude and behaviour of the victim influences the offender and which makes possible the criminal act.

    Read More

  • Serial Killer Essay

    1913 Words  | 8 Pages

    Childhood trauma, a well-studied topic, is a distressing experience that can take a significant toll on a person's development throughout life. While not every serial killer experiences childhood abuse, there are many instances where a history of abuse and neglect has been prevalent. According to the National Library of Medicine, trauma often leads to anger and the desire to exert control. For many, this comes in the form of expressing criminal behaviors. Author, Fiona Guy, a freelance criminal psychology researcher, informs that researchers reveal “40% of serial killers interviewed report being physically beaten and abused in their childhood while 70% reported they had witnessed or been a part of sexually stressful events as children” (Guy, 2022, para. 4); leading to the suggestion that this has contributed to their behaviors later in life.

    Read More

More about Uncle Mark As Victims In Long Way Down

Open Document