Structure

One thing that I had in my mind when I was reading the book was the structure.  Most of the books I have read have had a rather simple structure and it usually goes like this:

- Introduction, the author starts the story and maybe writes some background information

- Start, the story begins (a long period)

- Turning point, something interesting happens (might be more than one turning points)

- The end, (usually something expected)

Now this amazing book has a totally different structure. Benjamin Zephaniah really knows what he writes about. The way he writes makes you emotional. All different kind of emotions, happiness, sadness, hope, fear, despise and so on. However, the feelings that Benjamin Zephaniah creates makes the reading experience so incredible. As a reader you can almost feel Alem´s pain when he hears about his father’s death. Also the structure of the book is different. It starts off with a beginning, some background information and so on, but the details are different. In a normal book it might be four or five turning points but this book is full of them. Things happen all the time, one thing after another and because this book is about getting an asylum anything can happen.

“This is not the end”, is the last words in the book and how many books end like that? It is a very open end and I believe that a second book will follow soon.

The book is very good because Benjamin Zephaniah gives the reader an opportunity to think a lot.