All American Boys by Jason Reynolds (PDF) Free Download
All American Boys PDF Free Download : Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely wrote the young adult book All American Boys pdf, which Atheneum released in 2015.
In the book, Rashad Butler and Quinn Collins, two teenage boys, deal with prejudice and police brutality in their neighborhood.
Due to its inclusion of anti-police sentiments, alcohol, drug use, and profanity, the book has attracted attention recently and is now the third most banned book of 2020.
Rashad Butler and Quinn, two characters in the book, are followed as they deal with racism.
The narrative alternates between Rashad, a black youngster written by Jason Reynolds, and Quinn, a white boy written by Brendan Kiely.
Rashad, a 16-year-old, is assaulted in a convenience shop by a white police officer who believes him to be a thief.
A witness to the incident is Quinn, a family friend of the policeman.
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a package of chips Rashad, a 16-year-old, is only seeking for something at the local bodega.
Instead, he encounters a confrontational officer named Paul Galluzzo who mistook Rashad for a shoplifter,
took offense at his protests that he hadn’t stolen anything, mistook his refusal to leave the bodega for resistance to arrest,
and mistook every flinch Rashad made in response to the officer’s punches for further defiance and a refusal to STAY STILL as instructed.
However, how can you remain still if someone is repeatedly bashing your face into the concrete sidewalk?
Quinn Collins, a basketball player for the varsity team and Rashad’s classmate who has been raised by Paul after his own father passed away in Afghanistan, and a video camera were present as witnesses.
Paul is confronted with charges of bias and racial cruelty as soon as the incident becomes headlines.
Quinn won’t accept that the man who has essentially saved him could be guilty. Rashad then disappears, though. and again missing. once more.
The basketball team, which includes half of Rashad’s closest pals, then begins to take sides. Likewise, the school. the town, too.
As Rashad and Quinn are forced to make decisions and deal with implications they had never thought of before, simmering tensions threaten to blow up.
This four-starred reviews tour de force, co-written by two award-winning authors, alternates between Rashad and Quinn’s points of view,
as the ramifications of that one violent incident—the kind that makes the news—unfold and resonates to expose an unpalatable fact.
All American Boys PDF Review
All American Boys pdf has received plaudits from critics since its publication in 2015 for its concerns of racism and police violence.
Publishers Weekly gave the book a positive review, calling it “sad and all-too-timely.”” The review continued,
“A novel that allows readers think it through outside of the boiling emotions of a real-life tragedy is both welcome and important.
The scenario that Reynolds and Kiely depict has become a recurring element of news reports.”
Ashleigh Williams praised All American Boys pdf for its ability to “clearly show the repercussions of police brutality via the conflicting emotions,
which affect entire communities” in her starred review in School Library Journal.
Williams points out that the book presents a wide range of viewpoints and underlines the conflict between these viewpoints brought on by racism and privilege.
Michael Cart, a Booklist critic, noted in his starred review that All American Boys pdf opens a crucial conversation on racial tensions and police brutality.
However, the book is also “more than a problem novel; it’s a masterfully structured, psychologically sharp,
character-driven piece of fiction that dramatizes an all-too-frequent occurrence,” according to Cart.
