A Gap of Sky – Anna Hope A Gap of Sky is a short story written by Anna Hope. The short story is from 2008, and it takes place in London, England. The story is about a girl who has a lot of pressure on her shoulders from both society and family. The story shoes what environments can do to a person who stands alone without the support of family and friends. The story is written in 3. Person narrative, because the author describes the main character with words like she and her. Example: “…Ellie
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------------------------------------------------- Essay: A Gap of Sky A lot of young people have tried to end up in a circle of endlessness; coping with restlessness and the feeling of a missing meaning of their life. In that case, they need a gap of sky to give them their hope and self-confidence back in their decisions of life. In the essay ‘A Gap of Sky’ by Anna Hope the reader meets a girl called Ellie, who are dealing with this issue of choosing the easiest solutions. She wakes up one
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A Gap of Sky Individualism is a keyword in postmodern society. We do not depend on each other and we go our own ways. If we fall, others might catch us, but not necessarily. We are left with freedom to choose whatever we want of life. It is expected that we create our own footprints. Freedom is beautiful, but with freedom, also comes a great responsibility; the responsibility of our own life. Freedom can lead to loneliness, and sometimes even lead to a fear of going in the wrong direction. In
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Analysis of A Gap of Sky You have to be a good daughter or son. You have to be a good girlfriend or boyfriend, a good friend, a good brother, a good sister. You have to be good at math, chemistry, social science and biology. You have to wear the right clothes, and be good at sports. You have to be popular and have the coolest friends. The pressure nowadays is enormous. There is no wonder why so many young people want to run away sometimes, so they can get away from the huge amount of pressure
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Written assignment 5 Life as a teenager isn’t always as easy as it seems. Actually it is the most difficult part in life for many people which we get to see in Anna Hope’s short story “A gap of sky”. Some choose to focus on education whereas other choose alcohol and partying. Whatever path people would choose they all will be lead to the right path in the end no matter what has happened in the past. It just takes time. The short story shows us that even when you have had a rough time in the past
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person if it is something hard for him/her to overdue, but if they are declining their own state of mind, it is up to the person who has the problem to confront it and overcome it. This is one of the topics dealt with in Anna Hopes short-story “A Gap of Sky” from 2008, where a teenager named Ellie struggle against her inner demons. The story is set in today’s London; the author starts in medias res with the line “It is dark, but the wrong dark. Something is wrong with the dark” and therefore the author
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A Gap Of Sky by Luca Adriano D'Alessandro. 952 words. The short story is written by Anna Hope. The story takes place in London and is told by a first-person narrator that leads us through Ellie's thoughts and eyes, and guides us through the whole story by her inner monolog with herself. The situation described in the story is recognizeable for some people, it can be illustrated as if life has some obstacles you need to overcome, especially in the teenage years where you detach yourself from
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An Analysis and Interpretation of Anna Hope’s ”A Gap of Sky” (2008) When being a teenage student in the twenty-first century you might find yourself at a crossroad where important decisions have to be made. You have to consider your ambitions and where you will end up with the current lifestyle you are living. In Anna Hope’s A Gap of Sky (2008) teenager Ellie finds herself deeply reflecting over both partying and doing drugs, but also the severity of her college education. Ellie is a nineteen
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A Gap of Sky by Anna Hope Being young is often characterized by a feeling of pure invincibility. You feel like you can take on the world, and that you can handle everything. But being young is not always as easy as it sounds, because even though freedom is right beside you, expectations and responsibility is only a few steps behind you; catching up on you and bringing you back to reality. Drugs and freedom are some of the themes in the short story “A Gap of Sky” by Anna Hope from 2008. Ellie is
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A Cap 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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