Analyse af 'An Opening in the Sky'

Lauren Madison is the author of the story An Opening in the Sky (2008). The story is told from the main characters point of view, Ellie, who is nineteen years old. Growing up can be confusing and tough, and you are constantly looking for answers. Your actions have consequences, an incident of occurrences can change your entire life: “If this lack of application continues we will have no choice but to reconsider your place on the course.” Ellie is roaming around the city, in order to find some ink for her printer, so she can hand in her essay in time. The walk is both literally and mentally, as she walks through her mind throughout the city.

The writing tells us a lot about Ellie, as it is short sentences of thoughts that can be hard to make sense of: “Nice, now. Coffee. Swill out the cafetière, fill it. Computer. Is. On. Fags… Student shop.” She is forced to deal with the reality, and she does that by waking up with thoughts of taking drugs. She looks for leftovers of cocaine from the night before, takes it, and apparently, she also needs coffee to get started. She seems rather confused and disorderly: “Anything else? Of course: printer, printer’s out of ink. Student shop too. Fine. Time? Ten minutes to get there. Shit.” She does not have any organization and is on a thin string to be thrown out of her course.