Where Does the Book Long Way Down Take Place

Author Jason Reynolds

What is the setting of the book long way down?

Long Way Down has one main setting in this story, an elevator. In this elevator, Will, the main character, is greeted by ghosts who knew his older brother Shawn. … One by one throughout each floor, several ghosts who knew Shawn and/or Will enter the elevator and tell their stories.

Where in the scene does will get stuck long way down?

Will gets into the elevator, goes down to the lobby, and walks the nine blocks to Riggs’s apartment. He pulls the gun out. At this point, Will gets stuck and can’t say anything else. He hopes that Uncle Mark will call “cut.”