This book is written in the perspective of a teenagers life. The writers name is
Luke Carver and he is seventeen years old. Luke starts the story off by writing
“Man, is this lame or what? A seventeen year old guy writing a journal.”
(pg3) Luke then starts explaining how he was supposed to be writing in his
journal over Christmas vacation but he procrastinated as usual. It’s now the
day before school starts and he only has half a page written. Luke starts
writing about his girlfriend Megan and how beautiful she is. Then he goes into
explaining how the tri-meet is coming up this Saturday. It takes Luke awhile to
get used to the idea of writing a journal but when he does it starts getting
interesting. Luke tells about one time that he and his friend Hutch went to
top-o-the-world (this is like a lookout spot where you can see for miles). When
they got up there Hutch says, “It’d be pretty cool to climb down there
huh?” (pg. 49) Luke then said, “Wanna do it?” (pg. 50) Hutch then
mentioned that Luke’s mom kind of made him promise to look out for him. After
Luke heard that he got angry and their was no talking him out of climbing down.
When they were both done climbing down hutch walked the path to the top and Luke
climbed the way he got down. One night Hutch spent the night at Luke’s and
they were sitting watching television and talking. As they were talking Luke
asked Hutch if he wanted to visit Lenny, party, and find some girls. They got to
Lenny’s but he said he couldn’t go to the party because he had a ten-page
paper that was due the next day. So they left and went to the party. After
awhile of standing around someone yelled out, “Hey, I haven’t seen you
around before.” This person introduced herself as Sherry Keeler and introduced
her friend Kate Samuels to Hutch. The only one not drinking was Luke because he
had to drive home. Luke and Sherry went back to her room to go have sex and when
they got there Luke started thinking twice and said, “Thanks anyway, but I
can’t do this,” (pg. 77) and he ran out to go find Hutch. He found Hutch and
told him that it was time to leave. On the drive home Hutch was so drunk that he
puked all over Luke’s dad’s car and passed out. Luke was home one day and
decided to take a walk with his dog Daisy. Before he knew it he had walked to
what was now his ex-girlfriend Megan’s house, which was three miles away from
his house. When he looked closer at her house he noticed that Megan was outside
on her horse and one of his friends, Tony was also on a horse right next to her.
At about this time Daisy jumped away from Luke and went to Megan. When Daisy got
there Megan saw here and said, “I wonder where Luke is, because it’s not
like Daisy to run off unless Luke is coming this way. Come on Daisy, Let’s go
find Luke.”(pg. 116) After they had walked far enough away from Luke he
decided to climb up the mountain instead of taking the trail. When he was about
half way up he was trying to hold on when a chunk of ice fell from somewhere
above and pierced into his right eye. When this happened he thought “NO! Not
again!” Megan and Tony found him finally and brought him up by tying a rope to
him and pulling him up with the horses. The falcon was the first book that
I’ve that was written in a journal-form. I don’t necessarily know if this
was the best way to tell the story, but it works. I would have rather read it in
a third-person form. The authors intent to tell what happened to Luke when he
was younger could have been told at the beginning of the story instead of the
end. I didn’t like it that Luke would give clues of something happening when
he was younger and then cross it off right before he got to the part I wanted to
know. But I look at it this way, If it wasn’t for this I probably wouldn’t
have finished the book. It made me want to know what happened. The book is
written very well. It sounds like a teenager wrote it instead of an adult. I
liked the fact that the author knows how teenagers feel. Most adults forget what
it feels like to be a teenager. The author does seem fair about what she writes.
She writes about both sides of being a teenager. She also writes about being
mature and in control. My over-all opinion of the book is fair. It teaches some
lessons and has morals also. I would recommend giving the book a chance, I did.

Bibliography
MLA format: Koller, Jackie French.The Falcon.New York: New York.1998.