Every Face Tells A Story Analysis

About seventeen years ago, on September 19, 1999, at four o’clock in the morning, a horrible tragedy occurred. Natalia Bennett was driving her and four friends home from a birthday party. Then suddenly, a boy named Reggie Stephey drifted over the center lane and crashed into Bennett’s car. Stephey had been drinking that night with his friends and thought he was capable driving home under the influence of alcohol. He obviously was not capable. Stephey planned on attending college with an athletic scholarship. Instead, he was charged with “two counts of intoxication manslaughter and sentenced to seven years in the state penitentiary” (“Every Face Tells A Story” 4). Stephey also must live knowing he killed two people and ruined the life of Jacqui …show more content…
People look at her images and realize they do not want to look like her or make someone else look like her. The photo displays Saburido’s face right in the middle of the picture. She is wearing a black hat and pink shirt. The hat is covering her bald head and scars of what used to be her ears. One of her eyes remains open, but the other is not visible. She has no eyebrows, and her nose is only two holes in the center of her face. Her lips are barely existent and slant downwards. Her skin is wrinkly with non-defined features, such as where her cheekbones start and finish. At the bottom left of the picture, there is another photo of Saburido before the car accident. This photo of Saburido before the accident looks nothing like the picture of her after the accident. She has long hair, beautiful smooth skin, and big eyes. Saburido is smiling in the photo before the car crash, but she is not in the photo after the crash. This also displays they are now two different people. Saburido used to be a happy young girl who loved her life. Now she has to look in the mirror every day and be reminded of the struggles she must face every single