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Zero Hour

Zero Hour Alexander Blade Bobby has a secret. He knows that his father, scientist John Kendall, has built a rocket that is going to fly to the moon. And Bobby has decided to go aboard the rocket and fly to the moon. Behind a laboratory is an alley. In the alley, there is a lid one can lift up and a ladder one can climb down. Down the ladder one reaches a sewer-like underground space, except that it is clean and has lights and wires. Then there are gratings through which one can look up and see the drome where the rocket has been kept. That is the route Bobby discovered; that is how he saw the rocket and on another occasion, his father and another scientist, whose conversation told him that it was a moon rocket. They didn’t say John Kendall was going, but Bobby figured he must, because no one else was smart or fit enough. So Bobby decided to go with his father. When the story opens, Bobby has just woken up on the morning of the big day—the day when he plans to get into the rocket and fly off. He has a toy rocket of his own. He goes out and pretends to play with it for a while till he can slip away without making his mother suspicious. He reaches the rocket and hides in a suitable place, all set to go to the moon with his father. However, his father, John Kendall, is back home in the evening, having a casual conversation with his wife about having sent off the rocket finally. It is an explosion rocket that will throw dye which telescopes will capture as a purple spot. If the venture is successful, the next rocket will carry human beings. Did Bobby go off all by himself in the rocket, then? No. As John Kendall goes to his son’s room, we find Bobby in his bed. He is surprised that his father did not go to the moon and relieved that he did not go either. He decided to come back because at the last moment, it occurred to him that if both he and his father went away, there would be no one to stay with his mother. John smiles, thinking Bobby is talking about his toy rocket and his make-believe moon missions. He remarks to himself how children always manage to get hold of secrets and what a wonderful dream world they live in. He does not realise that it is he who does not know how close Bobby had been to flying off in the rocket; that he had actually been inside it. The story is aptly titled as everything builds up towards the zero hour—a crucial moment—when the rocket goes off to the moon, or, more precisely, the moment when Bobby steps off, just before the rocket goes off. The zero hour is the climax; post that moment, the readers are in suspense while they wait to know what happened to Bobby; then there is revelation; and then the reader shares a secret that Bobby knows but his father does not. Bobby is the most important character in the story. He is curious and brave; he is nervous about going to the moon, but decides to go because he thinks it will make his parents proud. He admires his father greatly. He is also a responsible young boy, because he gives up his great plan of flying to the moon with his hero, his father, so that his mother does not have to live alone.