A Gap of Sky by Anna Hope Essay

A Gap of Sky is a short story by Anna Hope which deals with the pressure from nine and the consequences of it. In our modern society many young people feel the pressure to be perfect like a heavy weight on their shoulders. You need a long, smashing education. You need to be attractive, be social and have lots of friends. Sometimes the pressure can become too much and you forget what is important in life and gets on the wrong track. In A Gap of Sky we meet Ellie a nineteen year old girl clearly attempt with the pressure from society and her own dreams. She seems in conflict with herself about what she really wants. She studies at a university in London but is close to getting expelled delinquent to her lack of activity and finished assignments and when she wakes up after a long night of partying, she remembers that she has an assignment about Virginia Woolf and if she does not hand it in, she will very seeming be expelled.The short story is written chronological and by an omnisci ent third person narrator but A GAP of Sky as well uses the stream of consciousness. We are inside the head of Ellie and are constantly hearing her inner thoughts. For example on page 2 clientele, 36 Should she do the try on first, print it in the morning? No. No time. Needs to be handed in at nine. We are inside the head of Ellie and hearing her steam of thought. It easily feels like Ellie are the narrator also because of the language used. There is a lot of swearing How the fuck did she manages to sleep for so long (page 1, line 16), coffee plunged, poured, slurped hot, fuck thats hot (page 1, line 35).The narrator is not just telling what is happening but how Ellie perceives it. Ellie are having troubles in her life. She is doing drugs, having a straining time performing well in school, and that she does not have a profound social relationship. And it seems she has a difficult relationship with her parents. I will later on discuss her relationship with her parents further. In text 4 Consequences of youth substance abuse It mentions that people who frequently use addictive substances often experience problems much(prenominal) as academic difficulties, health problems and low social life. This is all things that Ellie are affected by.