Even though Will tries to take actions that the people he looks up to will do, Reynolds implied how Will’s character is unsuitable to do such a brutal act, kill Rig to revenge. Will’s loss of control of his emotions expose his true character. Something that burst free is generally unmanageable. Though the rule clearly states no crying, Will can no longer hold in his grief. The tears come into the scene as it “burst free”, as something that is forbidden and was trapped by Will’s follow of the rules. When Will sees Shawn crying, his tears also comes “bursting free”. Reynolds uses connotation to reveal the grievance of Will after going through the loss of a loved one. In Jason Reynolds’ anti-gun novel, Long Way Down, written in verse, he explicitly emphasizes the effects of the acts of revenge in Will’s society to evoke the adverse consequences of a gun violence.
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