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Virginia Woolf's A Gap Of Sky

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"A Gap of Sky" by the writer, Anna Hope, is about a young girl who finds herself alone in a city. She is one out of many young people who are in an environment with drugs, alcohol and addiction. The story is a portrayal of what the city can do to a person who remains solitary without the support and consideration from other people. The storyteller is third person and omniscient, and the narrative technique can be portrayed with the expression "continuous flow" which is a method that essayist and women's activist Virginia Woolf utilized a great deal as a part of her works. This "stream" is exceptionally confounding, on the grounds that it portrays the circumstance by each and every thought of the person who for this situation is extremely distractive …show more content…

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