![]() ![]() ![]() On Will’s elevator ride down to the lobby of his apartment building, ghosts of family members and friends who were killed by gun violence join him. Despite Will’s posturing, he’s nevertheless disturbed by the gun he takes from Shawn’s drawer and the thought of what he’s going to do with it. Will believes that doing this is the only way he’ll be able to express his love and loyalty, as well as deal with his overwhelming grief. As Shawn was killed in a gang-related the night before the novel begins, Will is intent on following the Rules and killing Carlson Riggs, the man he believes killed Shawn. The Rules state that when a person’s loved one is killed, the person must find the killer and avenge the love one’s death. Will is sensitive, perceptive, and loves language,-but he also desperately wants to grow up and be a man like his dad, Pop his Uncle Mark and his big brother, Shawn, all of whom died because they followed the neighborhood “Rules” of revenge killing. ![]() The 15-year-old protagonist and narrator of the novel-the story is told through poems in Will’s voice. ![]()
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