“Face” by Benjamin Zephaniah
Review: love it, love it, love it, absolutely love it!
I’ll just write a short summary of the book because if I’ll write everything I want, I’ll just write a whole book all over.So I’ll write only the basic story, so that you read it yourself.
The set in England. The main character is a 15 year old boy, called Martin. He has two friends, are Mark (the one that follows Martin and does everything that Martin does) and Matthew (the quiet one and the one who would think about risk of doing something). Martin also has a girlfriend, called Natalie (has independent personality).
The story is concentrated on Martin. One night he and his friends and girlfriend went to a club and had fun after which Natalie went home and Martin with friends went home by dark alleys where they meet a person who went to their school and he with his friend in a cool car. They invite the boys to have a ride with them, in the end Martin gives in thinking that they are just going to give them a ride home, Matthew decided to walk. Even though the older boys are under influence and they were not going to give Martin and Mark a ride home. After racing away from police they had a car crash. One of older boy died, other boy had bruises, Mark had few broken ribs and a broken arm. Martin lost consciousness in the crash and then car blew up.
Martin woke up in a hospital. He then found out that he has no broken bones and a few not too bad cuts. Then he understood that something happened to his face. He had serious burns on his face. Afterwards he needed facial reconstruction.
The book tells about how Martin coped with school and friends. Also about his feelings and how he didn’t like how people pitied him or how mean they were to him. This book tells about how he lived through toughest times of his life, how he found who his real friend are and things that really matter to him. This a great book about milestones, friendship, and betrayal. “Face” gives a new meaning to a phrase “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” even though everyone does. I liked this book because it goes through an enormous amount of emotions, any teenager can relate to this book in some sort of way. Also it gives a different perspective to what everyone used to. This book will dramatically change anyone’s view on life and will make anyone look around them and ask themselves “is this me? are they my real friends? are they going to stay with me no matter what?”.
This novel will make you sad, happy, excited, angry, it will make you cry and laugh. I would give more than five stars for “Face” by Benjamin Zephaniah. Definitely a book to read.
run outside turn around and spit on the floor. Good I am safe now.
Wide Reading 10 