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...