Everybody keeps wondering about this adolescent’s age; for, the way he speaks and behaves, he gives his parents, his friends, his relatives and his enemies, the impression to assume maturity and wisdom of all human generations. His mother, Micheline Morton, believes that, the way her “beloved” son carries himself, he either counts among the geniuses or he has sunk into madness. His father, Joseph Morton seems to have a simpler explanation: Marcel acts as a nuisance and may daily expose himself to dangers. His siblings and peers, having exhausted all possible explanation, stop trying to figure him out; the more so, since this young man takes no interest in their games and other activities appropriate to his age. As for Father Gregorio, God has always had a mysterious way to express Himself. Thus, because of Marcel’s precocious positive thinking, he has no other choice but to count him among the messengers of God. Everybody keeps guessing, but Marcel himself. Of course, he has awareness of his physical age: he is a fourteen-year-old boy. His physical appearance also shows his age. In his process of ageing he has conceived of, he firmly thinks that he has, in a way, acquired the age of his grandfather, a science teacher, who, unfortunately, died at the age of sixty. He believe so, not for a mysterious reason,, but because of their closeness, their daily intercourse allowing the adolescent to grasp his grandfather’s wisdom and objective-mindedness. Marcel seems beyond the bounds of ageing theorizing, when he confuses his age with older and older generations. On his grandfather’s advice, he finds out that most of what humanity, he may read it at the public library. Then, he turns a bookworm and thinks that he is as old as Confucius, that Chinese philosopher and teacher who lived between 1513-1583B.C. Again, Marcel reaches such conclusion because he manages to relate to that ancient thinker’s advice according to which, when the mob loves someone, you have to investigate such love; when the mob hates someone, you have to investigate such hatred. Thus, since a puzzling situation has been going on in Ouanaminthe for a long time, Marcel makes up in mind to decipher the mystery, if any. . This young boy may be an inspiration to many. We recommend the reading of this book to youngsters.