Falling by Anne Povoost
"My feet are tangled up in something, but I don't know what" Lucas complains. By the end of the novel do you think he knows?In the novel Falling by Anne Povoost Lucas Beigne, the grandson of a Felix who helped the nazi's in the war, gets caught up in the neo-nazism that has struck his small town of Montourin in Belgium. These neo-nazis headed by the persuasive and cunning Benoit persuade Lucas into their beliefs and before he knows it he became entrapped deeper and deeper throughout the novel. His naive mind blinds him from this and it is not until towards the end of the novel that he begins to relise exactly what his feet have become tangled in.It all started when Lucas decided to go out and purchase a gun, the start of his immature plight that lead to him to being tangled up in all sorts of trouble. Enter Benoit, a wealthy son with a quick mouth and an opinion on everything followed with praise. For the young Lucas he was a dream come true to fill his boring holidays and the complements like "such a sense of responsibility" went straight to Lucas' head. Benoit certainly had a talent for persuading weaker peo
The whole time at the back of Lucas' mind he always new what Benoit was up to was wrong and although he questioned it "don't you think violence is going too far" he never strayed or left Benoit's side until it was too late. Once Lucas had done this he knew it had gone to far, but what he didn't expect was for Benoit to turn on him and not let him go, and it was about now he started to relise what he had tangled his feet in. He could leave them at any point now and could have freed his feet from their entanglement but instead his next actions would ensure him becoming stuck. But still he was persuaded that they where doing the right and although he became more suspicious he still stuck around. This of course was the start of the end and the point of no return, even though Lucas did not yet know Benoit would now had something against him to use and anything he did from here would only intertwine him further, but still he did not relise it and continued to keep in contact with his intellectual neo-nazi friend. Benoit had a scheme to spy on the local convent and for this to occur a certain tree that was blocking the convent needed to be chopped down. Lucas was still oblivious to what was happening around him and partially forced himself to believe that what they were doing wasn't wrong and was what had to be done to rid the town of its "seasonal workers". ple and Lucas in particular because of his grandfather was a prime target for Benoit who knew exactly how to exploit his naivety and use him to keep himself out of trouble. Lucas wasn't happy, but once again Benoit managed to persuade his naive "friend" that nobody would be hurt, "nobody will be hurt, its just for a scare" and once again Lucas was the one left to do it. By this time it had already surrounded and entangled him to such an extent that he is at the centre of it ugly face and there is no escape. As Lucas continued seeing Benoit more throughout his holidays and his presence and his very engaging opinions drew Lucas closer towards neo-nazism, his feet became tangled further. His next stupid act came when it was decided that they would protest against the Arabs and Benoit of course decided to throw some Molotov Cocktails. By the end of the novel, Lucas, because of his very innocent and naive approach at life, discovers the terrible neo-nazism in the small town of Mountourin that seems to be everywhere, but far to late. Of course Benoit never got his own hands dirty, and as Lucas had a chainsaw he was soon persuaded, nearly against his own will to chop it down.
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