Essay about Hazel: An Unassuming Leader

People encounter many stereotypes daily, especially ones concerning women. In “Hazel Tells Laverne” by Katharyn Hows Machan, the narrator, Hazel, explains an incident that she encountered, in which a frog attempts to stereotype her by assuming all women fantasize about being a princess. The author creates a mocking tone towards the frog through the use of diction, language, and syntax, therefore showing that the narrator doesn’t want to be a princess.

Hazel has a strong identity in the story, she has much self-confidence and is not afraid of letting everyone know that she is the best, “Now some people like to act like things come easy to them, won’t let on that they practice. Not me. I’ll high-prance down 34th street like a rodeo pony to keep my knees strong even if it does get my mother uptight.” p. 1 ll. 29-31. Thus her strong and proud personality, she still loves and protects Raymond and is not afraid of showing this either. At the end of the story Hazel’s view on other people changes, when she sees Raymond running parallel with her at the May Day race in his own unique style. She realizes that everyone is not just who she sees them to be, that there are more to people than you can

Hazel and George casually discuss the subject of being in Diana’s situation as Handicapper General. Hazel was under the belief that she could do as good as a job being a Handicapper General as any other person could. Hazel expresses this belief through saying, “I’d have chimes on Sunday-just chimes. Kind of in honor of religion,” (2). This reveals Hazel’s cluelessness to the government’s reasoning for having a Handicapper General. Hazel’s ideal image of a Handicapper General proves to not be someone worthy to be able to keep society in order. Diana’s job is to keep everyone in line and make sure that no laws are being broken. By Hazel implying that she would use chimes and honor a religion, people would not likely recognize the superiority Hazel would have over them, which would lead to society not following the laws and respecting Hazel’s orders because she isn’t intimidating. Yet another instance where Hazel’s incognizant tone towards society is shown is when Hazel witnessed her own son’s death on live television. Watching what was on the television, Hazel was unable to comprehend what just

The location of the Sandleford Warren is a grass field in England. The current location of of warren is on top of a location that a housing development. The type of government in the Sandleford Warren is a plutocracy. A plutocracy is a government run by the wealthy, which makes those individuals powerful. “Cowslips are for Owsla*-don’t you know that?” p.5 The Sandleford Warren is ran by the powerful and the poor members of society aren’t treated as well. The general moral of the rabbits is that they are all satisfied with the living conditions except for Fiver. All the rabbits rarely see harm or danger, except once Fiver believes evil is coming, and we see a sign for the housing development. There was a caste system in place in the warren. The Outskirtz were the lowest in the society, also known as the normal average rabbits. The Owsla were second in authority and power and they were big strong rabbits. They protected the leaders and most powerful

She witnesses her son Harrison’s bold attempt to claim his role as Emperor and sees him get shot as well. After that she apparently forgets what she witnesses. In the movie 2081 however, Chandler Tuttle struggled to understand why Hazel watched the incident and could not remember. Since he could not figure it out, He set up a scene where Hazel leaves to wash the dishes and leaves George alone to watch alone in the living room. She says “urgh i think i will get started with the dishes.”The real reason Hazel forgot about her son’s death is because she got desensitized

As hopeful and notable Hazels advancements in the warren are, Hazel has companions to assist him to become a better leader. All the previous chief rabbits in Watership Down were unfriendly and unfair, but with the navigation of his comrades, Hazel does his best to provide a more inclusive environment for the other rabbits in the warren. Hazel realizes that Holly possesses knowledge, experience and instincts that will be valuable on the rabbits’ long journey to Efrafra and he admits this by saying, “’I’m not the right fellow anyway -- Holly is’” (Adams 195). Hazel shows a considerable amount of faith in Holly by allowing him to lead the group on the adventure to Efrafra. His act of handing over the reins and letting Holly have so much control, shows that Hazel wants the best for the group and displays his forward-looking ideals. Hazel knows and trusts Fiver more than anyone

The Hazel Pete family believes that the "power" of the artifact maker is preserved in the artifact. The family believes this power allows a "communion" effect between the audience, the artifact, and the maker. Children of the Hazel Pete family, from the time they are babies, help with the gathering and learn to respect the sites. The Hazel Pete family knows when they go to the gathering sites, camp grounds, canoe landings, home sites, cemetery, and observe the rituals that they have a communion with the ancestors and share the future with the Hazel Pete

In 1957 was a very different times for blacks and whites. At the time there were big separation between blacks and whites because of how people judging by color and not character of the person. Because of those action the event of Elizabeth Eckford was brutally was harassed and bullied by Hazel Bryan and huge crowd made of white families and students who goes to Little Rock Central High School. From Hazel and Elizabeth event we can learn that things changes in the future.

Hazel grace is a dynamic character because she changes throughout the story. In the beginning, Hazel doesn’t want to get close to Augustus, because she was afraid he is going to be shattered when she dies. But towards the ending, hazel finds out it doesn’t matter if you die in the middle of a relationship, it’s about the moments you spend together. A quote in the book, on page 214, “Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.”

But now, if anybody has anything to say to Raymond, anything to say about his big head, they have to come to me” (38). This shows that Hazel is protective of her brother and doesn’t want anyone saying anything to

Although, Hazel is courageous enough to “...hide the money…” (Bambara 450) from the “…big boys…” (Bambara 450) that take their money, she has fear as any other child would have. Ultimately the age of the narrator helps establish this sense of betrayal to the reader. Hazel sits in the “navigator seat” because she is afraid of “…sittin in the back with the pecans.” (Bambara 449)In fact, she says that “…if you scary like me, you sleep with the lights on…” (Bambara 449) because like most kids being in the dark scares them. This helps elevate the thought that the narrator is a young age because it shows child-like behavior.

Additionally In the Sandleford warren power is given to those with a title. For example in the sandleford warren fiver and hazel go to the Threarah to suggest that everyone should leave but he turns them down. "Because Thererah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself." This represents the fact that the Threarah doesn’t want to lose his title by people hearing that someone else is coming up with ideas that isn’t him. Second Hazel is not large enough to become a warrior and join the Owsla deeming him an Outsider. This gives him the lowest rank of rabbit giving him no

Firstly, within the novel, it is clear that Hazel is a caring person and is fully aware of what her body’s condition does to her

He is determined to outsmart the Wolf no matter what he needs to do. He always goes to the location where they are supposed to meet earlier, collects what he needs and then comes back before the Wolf realizes. He still decides to do this even if it means he has to get up very early and put himself in danger trying not to be notified by the wolf. “Well, the little pig woke at four the next morning, and bustled up, and went off for the apples, hoping to get back before the Wolf came” (16). The third pig was able to wake at four in the morning and get apples so that he could outwit the Wolf and get back into safety before Wolf had a chance to catch the pig outside his house.

At first, Hazel and Gus were merely acquaintances. In the first chapter, where they meet, Hazel is only mildly interested in Augustus’ “metaphoric resonances”. When he puts a cigarette into his mouth, Hazel is thoroughly disgusted and she feels that “there is always a harmatia”, which shows that she is repulsed by his behaviour upon their first meeting. As the plot develops, they become much closer friends, as seen from Augustus regularly inviting her to his house and finding common interests in her book, talking about the book and often quoting from the book in their conversations, for instance: ‘Augustus nodded at