Analytical essay om "A Gap of Sky"

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We are free to choose our own destiny. Or are we?  Especially as a teenager you search for answers to everything. Finding out what you stand for and how you want to live your life is part of the process of becoming a grown up. However, it is not always as easy as it sounds. In the western world, we are free to choose our own education, our life companion, the place we want to live, the place we want to work, what we want to vote for and a lot of things that our great-grandparents never dreamt of.  But which path should we choose? In the short story “A Gap of Sky” written by Anna Hope in 2008, the main character Ellie is roaming around in the streets of London and in her own mind as well. Her walk around London’s streets becomes a walk through her own mind. 

The short story is told from a third person narrator and from the nineteen years old main character Ellie’s point of view. The reader only gets an insight into the story through Ellie’s thoughts. The short story is told with a stream of consciousness technique that illustrates the way Ellie thinks. The story is full of bad language and swearwords, rhetorical questions and incoherence for example, “Fuck” (p. 2, l. 2, l. 16, l. 26, p. 3, l. 41), ”Jesus” (p. 2, l. 11) and, “what, really, was there to be reverent to? To whom? To what? To why? To God? To Mum? To Dad?” (p. 3, ll. 64-65). This tells us how Ellie normally speak. The use of stream of consciousness also demonstrates what Ellie is like when she does drugs. The writing style is even more free-associating, jumpy and incoherent when she is on drugs, “Nice, now. Coffee. Swill out cafetiére, fill it. Computer. Is On. F...

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