He sits there for hours just watching the man. the man is just sitting there with a piece of paper writing non stop. His hands are very worn out and have scars on them. he continues to watch this man until his parents call him asking where he is and saying he has to come home immediately. When he gets home he gets shouted at and abused. This section of the story will show the boys home life and possibly flash backs of when he gets hit.
The next day he goes back to the park and the man is there again this time the boy sits on the same bench as the man and tries to see what he is writing but he cant understand it because its in Arabic.
The man notices the boy looking at his writing so the boy turns to him and they sit face to face. the man staring at him with his striking grey eyes. the boy says 'hi i'm daniel what's your name? but the man decides to ignore him and continues writing on his paper. Daniel turns to him again and asked him why he is alone and why he comes here all the time to write. the man looked as if he was getting impatient and suddenly turns to one side and gets a clean piece of paper and starts writing something down. He passes the paper to daniel and then gets up to leave, and leaves daniel alone on the bench, daniel watches this man walk off out of the park and notices he has a limp... so Daniel stares at the paper reads what it says it is very bad english due to him not being English 'My name is Omar Adle, I am alone this is because of no family i dont talk because i cant talk i come here for quiet and on my papers i write my life' daniel goes home and has the parents shouting at him... the next day he returns to the same bench and waits for the man. the man comes back a few hours later and sits next to daniel, takes out his pad and continues to write so daniel interrupts him and says 'how come you have no family' the man begins writting on a plain pice of paper that he was on holiday with his family when he was a young boy of a similar age to daniel in 1971 and he was on holiday in bangkok - Thailand, in the hotel he was in a massive fire erupted in the kitchens and the hotel went up in flames, he explains how terrified he was and his father and mother tried to protect him and his brother didnt think about them. They ran out of the building but his mother stayed inside to help other people so his father had to run back in and save his wife. Him and his brother stood outside for aeys expecting the worst as the people came to calm the fire, men went in to the hotel to collect bodies and his parents were among the bunch of bodies collected from the hotel.
daniel gets a phone call from home, with his parents shouting at him to get home straight away. But he asks Omar to meet him again at the same time again the next day. Omar nods in reply.
The next day Daniel is delayed by his family and is late to the park, and is terribly worried that Omar will not be there, evenually he gets to the park and the man is there waiting for him, he walks over to the bench and a piece of paper is waiting for him so the paper explains how one night many years later, he was on his way home driving through a rough part of thailand and he sees a gang of boys approaching this young boy, they all had lighters in their hands and were getting closer and closer to the boy, Omar had a phobia of fire since the incident in the hotel and he didnt want the boy getting hurt by such a horrific weapon, os he stopped his car and went up to the boys telling them to stop, the gang just laugh at him and Omar didnt realise what they were laughing at until he could smell the familiar burning smell that had haunted his thoughts ever since his parents died.
They set fire to his clothes he was on fire, he was pushed and fell over backwards itting his head against a loose brick on the wall, he blacks out and then next thing he knew he wakes up in hospital not being able to smell or move his mouth. All he could do was see people watching him in concern, he couldnt move any part of his body. and he didnt understand why. he couldnt express his feelings in any way and couldnt talk, he could only see and hear miffled voicesm a women comes up close to him and tells him to come to the bathroom because its time to see himself he gets lifted into a wheel chair and pushed into the bathroom he looks in the mirror and the sight he saw would poison anyones mind, he was given a large black cloak that covers everything but his eyes and only removes it when he is alone.
Once daniel finishes reading the paper he burst into teats and asks what happened to Omars brother so he carries on writing and says when his brother came to visit him he looked at him in concern not known whether he was going to live or die so he committed suicide shoting himself in the head, he couldnt tell him not to because he couldnt talk he left him all alone and now he's here so daniel says to him 'Omar please may i see your face you have told me so much about it you have to show me, i care about you, i will always be here for you, im going to place my hands on your face and pull down your robes if you want me to stop then pull my hands away okay?' so omar nods and daniel places his hands on his face and starts to pull down the robes and Omar didnt stop him, it was an awful sight, his eyes were watering and his face was covered in burns he had scarred lips and his nose just blended in with the rest of his scars when daniel said 'can i see your face' he had no face he was the man with no face.
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