Indledning
Divorce. The disappearance of chemistry between one’s mother and one’s father has serious effects on the children, and it is becoming more and more common.
It is like having your foundations torn away beneath your feet. Your home-base tampered with. The place where you can rest and be yourself, the place that gives you a sense of belonging, suddenly absent.
How does a young child understand and handle a situation like this? In this essay I will attempt to highlight typical traits of children who have experienced a divorce first hand, through my analysis of Mid-air, written by Jennifer Allott for the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology, published in 2014.
I will characterise the main character, and try to underline how his relations have been affected by what he has experienced.
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Uddrag
The main character is the son, Alex. Already on the first page, the reader can begin to interpret what kind of person Alex is. “It had not been a good day. In fact, thought Alex, wiping is mouth on the back of his hand, it had been a really bad day.”
– Alex had analysed the different situations in which he had been faced with on that particular day, and concludes that the outcome had not been good. This shows intelligence, although, over analysing situations can also be seen as a negative side effect, common among children who have experienced a divorce in the family.
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Divorce is the obvious and substantial theme in the short story by Jennifer Allot. Divorce is often tough for everyone who is involved, including the children.
The way the children handle the situation mostly depends on how the parents act and treat each other throughout the process. If the parents and arguing and calling each other names, the children will most like see how their parents are affected, and this leads to exposed cracks in their so-called foundations.
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