'To Provoost, ignorance is the greatest evil'
             Anne Provoost explores through her novel 'Falling' how being ignorant can lead to conflict and consequence to violence. The portrayal of the evilness in being ignorant is highlighted through Lucas's family and those not accepting reality. It is essentially through Lucas's lack of knowledge of his grandfather's past and Benoit willfulness of ignoring the truth that presented Provost's view that the two types of ignorant 'willfully ignoring' and 'lack of knowledge' both has the same result of leading the characters to aggression behaviors.
             After the death of Felix's daughter, Felix suffered a great anguish. From an ignorant belief, Felix believed that the death of his daughter could have been avoided, if she had enough to eat. He needed to blame someone for her death, so he blamed it on the Jewish children who were kept hidden by the nuns. A consequence of this belief, fifteen children was force out of the convent and five nuns were killed. Through this, Provoost demonstrate to us how ignorant can force people to harm other people significantly. If Felix had understood and accepted his daughter's death, then the destruction on the Nuns and the Jewish's children would not have occurred.
             The summer after Felix's death, Lucas and Mme Beigne decided to stay at Mountourin. The communities in Mountourin are all aware of Felix's activities during the war. But Lucas has no knowledge of what his Grandfather has done. When he tries to ask his mother about it, she distances herself from Lucas by not telling him about the truth and shutting him out completely as he tried to deal with the past. In order to stop her being hunted by her father's actions she burns all the photos and evidence. Thus when Lucas's meets Alex and Benoit he is in a vulnerable position. They reveal the truth to him and wit
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