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    The short story "Hurricane Hazel" by Margaret Atwood describes a teenage girl's brief relationship with her boyfriend Buddy that abruptly ends due to a hurricane. The girl spends her summer away from the city on a farm, exchanging letters with Buddy. When she returns, Buddy seems different and asks for a bracelet he had given her back, saying he now has a new girlfriend named Mary Jo. That night, a major hurricane hits their city, highlighting how fragile young relationships can be.

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    The short story "Hurricane Hazel" by Margaret Atwood describes a teenage girl's brief relationship with her boyfriend Buddy that abruptly ends due to a hurricane. The girl spends her summer away from the city on a farm, exchanging letters with Buddy. When she returns, Buddy seems different and asks for a bracelet he had given her back, saying he now has a new girlfriend named Mary Jo. That night, a major hurricane hits their city, highlighting how fragile young relationships can be.

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    The short story "Hurricane Hazel" by Margaret Atwood describes a teenage girl's brief relationship with her boyfriend Buddy that abruptly ends due to a hurricane. The girl spends her summer away from the city on a farm, exchanging letters with Buddy. When she returns, Buddy seems different and asks for a bracelet he had given her back, saying he now has a new girlfriend named Mary Jo. That night, a major hurricane hits their city, highlighting how fragile young relationships can be.

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    HURRICANE HAZEL

    -MARGARET ATWOOD

    The short story “Hurricane Hazel” is written by the famous Canadian woman-
    writer Margaret Atwood. Her writings are noted for deep psychological insights and
    beautiful descriptions with minute details. This short story abounds in both. In this short
    story, Margaret Atwood describes how her brief, teenage acquaintance with her boy
    friend Buddly abruptly came to an end because of a hurricane.

    The speaker in the short story is a teenage girl of fourteen in the 10th grade. She
    has a brother two years elder to her and a 3 year old sister. Loving and understanding, her
    parents had set rules about the daughter not staying late nights with her boy friend. In the
    school the speaker had a girl friend, Trish. Charlie was Trish’s boy friend. Trish
    introduced Charlie’s cousin, Buddy to the speaker and asked her to be Buddy’s girl
    friend.

    Thereafter Trish and Charlie, the speaker and her boy friend Buddy used to go for
    early movie shows. Because the speaker’s parents did not want to stay out past eleven at
    night. The speaker did not feel anything erotic about her companionship with Buddy.

    When the speaker’s family decided to move away from the city a farm land for
    summer the speaker informed Buddy about it. When she was spending her summer in the
    farm land, the speaker received letters from Buddy. One day unexpectedly Trish, Charlie
    and Buddy came to the speaker’s farm land. All of them went for a swim, after which
    Buddy gave her his identification card- a silver bracelet with the name ‘Buddy’ engraved
    on it. Buddy had put it on the speaker’s hand – as a ownership label.

    After the summer, the speaker’s family went back to the city. The speaker started
    going to school. Buddy was hospitalized for hernia and the speaker went to see him in his
    house. The author could feel that there was a “edginess” (difference) about Buddy.

    On a night in October, there was a warning that Torono, the speaker’s place, was
    about to be hit by a major storm, hurricane with rain and winds. Buddy phoned and asked
    whether she would came out with him that night. But the speaker told him that it was a
    dangerous night and it was a risk to go out. Instead of going out with Buddy, she stayed
    at home. The brief teenage acquaintance of the speaker with her boy friend Buddy came
    to an abrupt break-up, Buddy asked for his bracelet back, to be given to his girl friend
    Mary Jo.

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