"The Summer of the Falcon" by Jean Craighead George

The Summer of The Falcon         Every popular novel must have an interesting story, suitable conflicts, and a theme. In the novel The Summer Of the Falcon, the author Jean Craighead George parallels the maturation of the main character with the teaching of a bird to fly and take commands. June becomes mature and grows form childhood to adulthood, In the end of the story, June is not a child anymore. Neither is the falcon. It …

…From those facts, June learned the cycle of nature.         Maturity, freedom and growing up are the morals in The Summer of The Falcon, and by the falcon symbolizing June, we can see how a child becomes mature from the experience, and the relationship of freedom and mature - without maturity the freedom will harm people. And, from the novel, we can see the growing of animals, and humans form the comparison between man and animal.