A Gap of Sky

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Analysis of ”A Gap of Sky” Being an adult comes with obligations and responsibility. It can be hard to balance enjoyment and the more serious parts of adulthood. At the same time it is difficult to find a place to belong and the core to what life is all about and how to get there. In the short story “A Gap of Sky” by Anna Hope the main character is struggling to find the meaning of her virgin adulthood. The short story uses a limited third person narrator because the reader only follows the main character’s thoughts and doings. The story is written in the present tense and has a chronological composition. The main character is 19-year-old Ellie. She is studying at a university in London. Ellie is an irresponsible and careless teenager who does drugs and seems to party a lot. She most likely lives at the college; she is definitely not living at home anymore. It is because of her parents that Ellie is studying: “It was their fault she was doing this bloody course in the first place.” (l. 66). Ellie is not very interested in studying and she has only one last chance of not getting kicked out of school. Maybe Ellie uses drugs as a way of escaping expectations and obligations. She is in a state between childhood and adulthood where she has to figure out how to get by and deal with matters of being an adult. That can be hard for a 19-year-old girl. Living in a big city like London can be quite overwhelming and tempting. The choice to use a big city as the setting with its many people and hectic and chaotic life fits perfectly well with Ellie’s confused state of mind and her feeling of being lost. The big city works as a riot of distractions and interferences to her blurred mind. The language is used to describe her state of mind where she is high on drugs with the technique “stream of consciousness” and there is also used many short sentences like: “Nice,
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