A Gap of Sky “A Gap of Sky” by Anna Hope is about a young girl who, like a lot of other young people, is exposed to a huge amount of pressure. She is caught in a dilemma between desires and expectations, because nowadays there is so much you have to live up to. You have wear nice clothes, do well in school, have lots of friends etc. So it’s not surprising that sometimes you would want to get away and forget about all that. In this story, the young girl, whose name is Ellie, doesn’t live up to
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A gap of sky People have to find themselves when they grow up, and it can cost a lot of frustrations. There are so many things you have to think about and take care of when you stand on the line between being a child and an independent adult person. You have to learn to take responsibility for yourself and that can be one of the hardest parts – that’s when you disappoint yourself and the people around you the most because you don’t always see how important something really is. Sometimes you don’t
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Wake up Ellie ”A Gap of Sky” is a short story written by Anna Hope. It is about a young girl named Ellie who is nineteen and struggling to balance her life between drugs and school. Ellie has a paper due in the morning and is being threatened that she will be kicked out of the school if she does not start to hand in her papers and show up in the school. But she is out of printer ink so she embarks on a life changing quest to find some. The theme in “A Gap of Sky” is freedom and choices which
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Anna Hope A Gap of sky The short story, A Gap of Sky, by the British writer, Anna Hope, deals with a young girl who find herself alone in the freedom of postmodern society. She is one out of many British youngsters who are in an environment with drugs, alcohol and addiction. The story is told by a third-person narrator with an inner view to the main character’s thoughts. The main character’s personality influences the language. The lines are short, and written as a stream of conscience. This leaves
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“A Gap of Sky” by Anna Hope is a short story about a young girl caught in a dilemma between expectationsand desires. It is a portrait of a young girl on drugs and a description of what the city can do to a personwho stands alone without the support and care from other people. The narrator is third person andomniscient, and the narrative technique can be described with the phrase “stream of consciousness” whichis a technique that writer and feminist Virginia Woolf used a lot in her works. This “stream”
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A Gap of Sky Living as a teen in the postmodern society, can leave you feeling lost. The years up until you officially are stated as an adult, are years filled with questions and emotions floating through your mind and body. Boys are difficult, parents are a burden, and the big future that lies right ahead of you, makes you question your whole life situation. Society sets certain expectations and it’s very easy to choose not to go in that certain path of life that is stated to be the correct one
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There is always a reason to why people abuse. Whether they drink a little too much some times, numbs them selves with various medicines or shoots up hard every single day, there is always a reason. In Anna Hope’s short story ”A Gap of Sky” from 2008 we meet a young girl, who without a doubt has a reason to want to get away from everything. The story starts in medias res with “It is dark, but the wrong dark. Something is wrong with the dark.” (l. 1) letting us know from the beginning, 19-year old
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Analytical essay – Indian camp Growing up is a part of life we all have to go through, in this particular part of life we learn a whole lot about us self. It is in that part of life we grow up and choose who we want to be and get our identity, and which path you want to follow. There are so many opportunities in this world and the act of choosing the right way makes you a more individual human being. This is one of the key themes in the short story The Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway. In the story
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A Gap of Sky A Youth is often characterized by life, desire and a feeling of freedom and invincibility. It is in youth a person truly provides background for what the personality of the person concerned contains and how it develops according to peer relationships and a person’s inner self, and therefore the youth is a vital part of life, but being young is not always as easy as it sounds because even though freedom is within reach, responsibility and expectations are right behind you, reminding
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freedom comes responsibility. Every individual needs to take responsibility for his or her own life. You have to struggle with the choices you have taken or will take. This way of living life in a modern society is depicted in the short story A Gap of Sky. The story is about the young, nineteen year old girl Ellie, who lives in London. She deals with an environment full of temptations as drugs and alcohol - but she definetly feels the freedom of todays society, especially in the big citites.
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