FACE

Benjamin Zephaniah, the author of the book, is an African American who knows everything about teenagers. I personally think this is an awesome book with great tension to the community now. The book really gives you great details on the life of the teenagers in American.

In the school, Martin is the coolest person. He, with his other two friends Mark and Matthew is the gang of the three in the school. They do everything together and share both goodness and badness when things happened. He got a girlfriend who is the prettiest girl in the school. Also, he is the captain of the gymnastic team. Martin thinks he has a pretty awesome life until one night when he set into a car and changed his life.

Things just happen so randomly that no one ever knows what’s going to happen in the next second. Martin has his life and face burnt. He lost his girlfriend, his friends, and his face. Not until one day when he gets maturity to face the truth, he was suffering the pain from the burnt, and the truth of his environment.

Everyone has different faces. It’s symbol of many different things to different people. Benjamin Zephaniah, the author of the book, will bring you into a world that contains different kinds of faces and attitudes with the eyes of Martin. The readers will see how Martin starting to grow up as an adult not only physically, but also about how he has grown stronger inside his mind.

The story connects the turning point from a boy to a man. The author uses many great vocabularies to express the emotions and descriptions to show us what is the most important and valuable in life. People usually forget about it and care only about what others think is more important. This book really gives the readers courage to continue what the readers will be doing no matter if they look or act different. I really recommend everyone to read this great, brilliant work. It is an amazing novel that will hold everyone’s attention forever once start reading it!

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