This novel may possibly be the key hole to many of our silenced
victims' lives, whether they've been consumed by unwanted
penetration, bewildered, hindered from accomplishing equality, and
brought down to desperation to the full extent; even without
knowing it. Fall On Your Knees is an incredibly written fiction in
which history, culture, and the hidden disturbances of social
issues, have been composed into one. It can be difficult to
comprehend, and attempting to soak up each word may take courage.
For the willing eyes that seek to discover the non fiction's secret
truths in a fictional world, it is best to be warned to open up
your mind before opening the pages that expose humanity's filth.
Without an open mind, it is guaranteed to injure the mind of one
that is weak. It is not advised to read the novel as casual. The
key to reading one that exposes the human world takes a lot of
comprehension, dissection, and evaluation. In order to survive a
novel that holds so much, it is best to keep your logic on guard,
while your emotions are kept tamed. In refusing to do so, it would
not be a surprise to find yourself unable to cope with the mental
disturbances and emotional grievances you've welcomed by not
reading it with a controlled heart and careful eyes.
pg 375
One would consider this as perverted. But only those with
perverted minds would look over these passages again and again
constantly while quoting it without a purpose. There is purpose in
what Ann-Marie has written in this excerpt from the book. Hurt,
heaviness and hate was the goal of this passage. She intended to
cause her audience to be appalled, abashed, and abhorred. Not only
was she genius in doing so, but she included a response in which
her character "Frances" has comforted her watchful sister after the
incident. This response, in which a 6 year old has assured to her
slightly older sister, was well composed to cause heartbreak in her
audience.
"I keep looking at each other until he falls asleep like that,
then she crawls out from behind his arms and walks over to me.
'It doesn't hurt', she says." - pg. 376
The author, Ann-Marie Macdonald has obviously put a lot of thought
in this novel. Palpably enough, it is blatant that Ann-Marie has
been careful to select the right words, and combine them together
to create the impact she has intended it to be. If put into a
symbolic image, Fall On Your Knees is like an immaculate white
house. It shines, and sparkles. But everyone that passes by it does
not feel the innocence the house is supposed to hold present. And
if one dares to enter, they find that the white house is not as
immaculate as it imitates itself to be. Instead, past the sturdy
bricks of white, you see that the paint is peeling off, and inside
the house it is nothing but dusty and bloody. There are no people,
but it is not empty; it is haunted.