Analyse af 'A Gap of Sky'

This short story is about a young nineteen years old girl named Ellie. She has to do an essay for the university where she studies before the next morning. But she has been high on drugs the day before, and when she wakes up it's already late in the afternoon and as a result she's very busy. It seems like she can't pull herself together to do the essay and go out and buy some ink since she ran out of it. She's wandering around the city of London and can't decide whether to go home and do the paper or continuing to walk around. I will focus on the narrative techniques and the city settings in this essay.

The story is told by a third person narrator who knows the thoughts of the main character Ellie. It's then a omniscient narrator. When you read the story it seems that you are into Ellie's head and you can read her mind: "Fuuuuuuck... she shoots up from under the duvet, scrabbles for her phone, finds it beside her pillow. 16:29. Oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit. Monday. It is Monday." (page 2). You get the feeling that you're inside her head and you can almost hear how she curses at herself. That gives a more personified portrait of the character because it's like you get to know her because you know her feelings and thoughts.