The Summer Of The Falcon Essay -- essays research papers

The Summer of The Falcon     Every pop novel must have an interesting story, suitable conflicts,and a substructure. In the novel The Summer Of the Falcon, the author Jean CraigheadGeorge parallels the maturation of the main temperament with the teaching of abird to fly and take commands. June becomes mature and grows gradation childhood toadulthood, In the end of the story, June is not a child anymore. uncomplete isthe falcon. It has fully grown and has decided to live independently, withoutany of Junes support.     The main theme of the novel is maturity, freedom and realizing the cycleof nature. Of these three, maturity is the most important. When the storybegins, June is s tail endtily a little child, and she hates to do any housework. Forexample, she dislikes dressing up, cooking, and other chores. We can see thatin P.19"June was still rebellious, "Why cant woman be adeptto do something else? Beds and dishes are so horriblyd ull."But finally, by learning the falcon, we can see the comparison between June andZander(the falcon). First Zander is just a little pet for June. With thetraining by June, and the mistakes that he fall into the river, he grows maturedhas been well trained. At the same time, June also has been trained by hermother and, watching the things happen to Zander, June becomes mature too. Shehelped her mother by carrying suitcases and boxes and walked carefully up thestairs to her room,...