`Falling' by Anne Provoost is saturated with sadness anger and perhaps fear. In the order according to time, the story starts with the death of Lucas's grandfather. This is followed by Lucas's anger for leaving his friends in the city and having to spend the `boring' summer holiday in Montourin. Lucas also talks about his `fear of boredom' and heat in Montourin. On Lucas's and his mother's arrival, they are again greeted with fear, as the grandfather's house had been stolen.

Throughout the story, Lucas's experience is punctuated with fear, anger and sadness. Examples of fear are: the fear of the Arabs, who are blamed for the troubles in the neighborhood; Lucas's fear for the consequences of not following Benoit's command; even Lucas's love for Caitlin has a contamination of fear in it, as he fears that Caitlin will really fall "violently in love' with Benoit.

Anger also...