Gap of Sky

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A gap of sky To be a teenager is to find your role in life. To find the path you want to go down and find the freedom every little child is seeking for. You have so many options that it can be hard to choose the one that is right for you. How do you know what your destiny is? Which goal should you chase and what path is the best for you? This is an universal process every young human being has to go trough – but some cope with the process better than others. Some can control it others cannot. “A gap of sky” is a short story written by Anna Hope, about a girl, named Ellie, who goes trough this exact transition from child to grown up. The main character Ellie is nineteen and a student at University College London. The story starts with Ellie going to the bathroom down the corridor for water, which indicates she lives at the college. She is a rebellious young girl, with no limits when it comes to alcohol and drugs. She wakes up Monday at 16:29 after a wild night out. She has a heavy hangover and stresses because she has an essay due Tuesday morning and has no ink for her printer. The beginning is very chaotic both in language and things happening. She seems like a slightly disordered and bewildered young girl, who cannot take care of herself and her education. Trough the story she keeps going back and forth between wanting to do the essay and not wanting to do it. She is all the time aware of the consequences of not doing it – she will be kicked out from school. But at the same time, she is not sure of the benefit of doing it. So the big question is, will she do the essay or not? Her search for ink takes her out in London. She is roaming around from one place to another. Other things and other people easily disturb her. The story is told with an omniscient third person narrator told from Ellie’s point of view and it is told chronologically but with a few

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