The Weekly Blog by your's truly ---> Saki

So the title of this short story is "Hover'". To Hover isn't necessarily the same thing as to fly. To hover means to remain in one place in the air. For example, how a helicopter hover's right above you then flies away. After the narrator of the story splits up with her husband, she doesn't exactly crash down. She hovers as in she try's to remain calm and be strong for her son Jack. She entered the stage of marriage thinking it would last but nothing really last's forever. I would say Jack took it the hardest. It affected him not only physically but mentally. One day while the mother and Jack were shopping, he asks her to buy her a bag of unbleached King Arthur Flour. He doesn't ask her to cook something with it but rather hold on to it like a big teddy bear. At school no one seems to give Jack attention and get's bullied by other kids. He begin's to tell everyone that he had a younger brother and died. I understand what Jack is going through. As you read you can see Jack is only seeking attention. The divorce truly affected him, and is not seeing clearly. I mean who would especially at that age. You can clearly see what the characters are portraying here; emotion. The ending of the story should've ended differently. You can tell that the mother has no one to talk to either.