The short story ”A Gap of Sky” was published in 2008 by Anna Hope, and is written in a typical postmodern way, where individualism is an significant keyword. It is getting more and more common not to be depended on each other and go our own ways. We are left with freedom to choose whatever we want of life. With freedom also comes responsibility and we are expected from several sides to create our own footprints. At the same time freedom can lead to loneliness, and sometimes even fear of going the wrong direction. This is the process every young person is going through when it creates its background and identity formation. This is also the case in the short that deals with the issues of drugs, freedom and reflection.
The story is about a young girl called Ellie, who search for printer ink through the streets of London. She encounters several distractions and due her impulsiveness she does not go directly for the ink.
The story is told in a third person narrator with an inner point of view and at the protagonist Ellie. We follow Ellie though the whole story and therefore it is restricted to her. The language is predominantly influenced by the vocabulary which can be seen in the text. “Coffee plunged, poured, slurped; hot, fuck that’s hot. Anything else? Of course: printer, printer’s out of ink. Student shop too. Fine. Time? Ten minutes to get there. Shit.”(35) This quote gives the reader an insight in the mind of Ellie, and is built up as a stream of consciousness where we almost are reading her thoughts deep down in her head, while jumping from one thing to another. This leaves the impression that the main character is confused.
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