90.65% of homicides are revenge related. 100% of those happen because of emotional hurt or hatred. Will leaves in a rough neighborhood. His actions are dictated by three rules. His brother dies and he’s faced with the decision of killing his brother’s murderer or letting him walk. Emotions play a large role in this community; especially, Uncle Mark, Mikey, and Will in Long Way Down. Will’s dad let emotion take over his thoughts and decision before he killed the wrong guy. “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 had killed/ the wrong guy”. (Reynolds 218) Will’s dad, Mikey, allowed the hurt he felt to control his decision of killing who he thought shot his brother. However, he did not think it through and shot off instinct of who he thought had done it. “I didn’t know/ he wasn’t the right guy,/ Pop said,/ a tremble in/ his throat. / I was sure that it was Mark’s killer./ Had/ to/ be”. (Reynolds 220) Mikey needed to avenge his brother to make it right. He justified death with more death because he let his emotions control him. Will’s dad had grown up on rules and in those rules the way you show respect and the only way to show the hurt you feel is by killing the killer; except, he …show more content…
“And in an hour/ had enough\ money to buy/ a new camera”. (Reynolds 183) This part of the story shows how fast doing something bad can turn into “good” and then…addicting. Uncle Mark was making more money than he ever had. “HE HELD THAT CORNER/ for a day,/ for a week,/ for a month,/ full-out/ pusher,/ money-making/ pretty boy”. (Reynolds 185) He found happiness in the money and material things he could flex. He was addicted to the quick cash and did not think about the dangers the job brought to him. Uncle Mark made the mistake of letting “happiness” and even greed make the decision to stay on the