A Gap of Sky

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A Gap of Sky A) I will analyse and interpret the short story “A Gap of Sky” from 2008 by the British writer Anna Hope. The short story deals with the issues of drugs, freedom and reflection. I will establish this by focusing on the main character Ellie, through a character description. To start with I will write a little bit about the narrative technic. The character description will be based on the language, the symbols and the setting. I will also write about youth and compare “A Gap of A Sky” to the photograph by Clarissa Leahy Frances – Reflection in the water from 2008 and a summary of Drug Identification and Testing in the Juvenile Justice System by Anne H. Crove from 1998. The short story is told with a third person narration. We only know Ellie’s point of view and what she thinks and does. The person who’s telling the story isn’t a character in the story. Ellie is the main character in the short story. She’s a young 19-year-old student who takes drugs and goes to parties, but in the same time she’s trying to care of the university life because she doesn’t want her parents to feel disappoint about her. Ellie doesn’t take her education very seriously and blames her parents for doing “this bloody course” (p. 2). It appears that she lives at a college because she in the beginning of the short story has to walk all the way down the corridor to get to the hall toilet. We follow her around in London (an urban setting), after she has been to a party, trying to get some printer ink for her essay she has forgot to make. The language is predominantly influenced by the vocabulary of a nineteen year old, which is to be seen in the text where it says: “Coffee plunged, poured, slurped; hot, fuck that’s hot. Anything else? Of course: printer, printer’s out of ink. Student shop too. Fine. Time? Ten minutes to get there. Shit.” (p. 1, ll. 35-36) This quote

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