Gap Of Sky

“It is a glove, a black leather glove, rammed down on top of one of the spikes, its middle finger raised up to the sky as a glorious salute”. A quote from Anna Hope’s short story “A Gap of sky”, which has a female main character, Ellie, a 19 year old college student. The story is about Ellie’s day after a night of partying. She wakes up, extremely hungover, at 4pm. When she wakes, she quickly realizes that she has an essay for a course do the next day and needs to write it. When she finds that she is missing ink for her printer, she goes to buy it before the store closes. Except the store closes before she gets there and she decides to walk around London and wait for it to open again. She does not think clearly, because she was under the influence of drugs during the party the night before, so her entire day is improvised and unfocused. Her thoughts go astray many times during the day; “She finds her tracksuit bottoms under a pile of clothes on her chair and pulls them on; T-shirt, hoody. Boots up the computer. She is going to have to work through the night, but it’s fine. This is fine. Coke. Does she have any left? Find the wrap, in the bra.” (p. 2, ll.28-31) There is many commas – pauses – in the quote

She believes she can do anything she wants at any time.,. "Ellie doesn’t want to go to a shop now, couldn’t go into a show now, doesn’t want any bloody ink, can’t write an essay, no matter what, no matter what it matters, doesn’t want any more coke, ever again.” (p. 4, ll. 86-88) Again, the thought-process comes across, but also that she acts like a child who does not want to eat its vegetables. She continues saying that she does not want to do something even though she knows she should. She does not like the responsibility she has, which could be because of her young age, or because she is used to having her parents around to