Reena Advani and Miranda Kennedy contributed editing.Miles Morales is just your average teenager. And I think all of those things are what creates that darkness in this story, but also in our society. We'll put blockades there because the blockade makes it safer for me, who's also dealing with the same blockade. That if we can't get power, get out of our own way or get past our own stuff, then we'll create stuff that our young people can't get past. This idea that there is darkness, right? That fear is a villain.
And so I like that the binary is always complicated for me when it comes to writing the hero in the villain story.
Like, we can name a few offhand, but I think most of us are somewhere in the gray. But I don't know if there's a person who's all the way bad. There are people who make decisions that feel villainous, who do terrible things to people. I will say that for me - there are very few actual villainous people. This isn't a new thing, right? Once there is a new thing that is discovered, what comes your way is backlash, especially if at the end of that new thing is more freedom, more equity, more peace, more intellectual capacity, more emotional maturity, more openness, more scrutiny when it comes to the things that we're supposed to see as real and honest and true. This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. He spoke with Morning Edition's A Martinez about Morales' other teenage superpowers and obsessions: writing poetry, and exploring his feelings about family, teachers, and a girl he likes. It grapples with huge themes though: censorship in schools, racism and fear. Reynolds' book is directed toward a wide audience - part poetry, part prose, with illustrations throughout. But with his superhero powers, he's invincible.
Morales goes to a fancy private school in Brooklyn, New York, where he doesn't always feel acknowledged. In the sequel, Miles Morales - the half-Black, half-Puerto Rican teenage Spiderman - finds himself in school suspension for disagreeing with his history teacher. This one is called Miles Morales Suspended, and it continues the adventures of an "unassuming, everyday kid who just so happens to be Spider-Man." The author Jason Reynolds has a new novel out, Miles Morales Suspended.Īward-winning author Jason Reynolds returns with a sequel to his young adult novel Miles Morales: Spider-Man.
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