Identity Unit Post 1

Literary Technique: repetition ("Hazel Tells Laverne")
Katharyn Howd Machan

Within the poem, "Hazel Tells Laverne", Hazel weaves a story very similar to the legend The Princess and the Frog although Hazel recants the story a tad bit differently. Instead of kissing the frog, she shoves him back into the toilet from which he came. Afterwards, she repeats this line "Me a princess (Machan)". Hazel cannot believe that she could change her life so dramatically and quickly. She shunned away from the change because it was too ridiculous to even consider. Her means of speaking depict a woman with an uneducated background. Coupled with her job at a howard johnsons demonstrates the hardships with money that Hazel faced during her life. She was accustomed to working for her food. She could not accept the fact that kissing a frog, even if it was in a toilet, could alter her world forevermore. This connection of repetition denotes the theme. Sometimes, an opportunity to change one's life rears its head, yet a person denies the chance because it seems too far-fetched to believe or even consider it as an option.