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the poem Hurdles by Katia Kapovich the author tells the story of a young girl in a race to maturity. The thesis of this poem is that the games and fun we have when we are children is easily forgotten when we grow older and move farther away.
The ethos or the creative identity is a young girl about the age of sixteen years old. The young girl imagines herself in a stadium in the dead of winter with a drizzly cold rain falling. She is running a race against three other girls who she describes and declares herself as an underdog. The voice is told trough third person omniscient. The girl describes how the surroundings and the mood before the race as well as the changes that take place soon after the race.
The logo is the race. The narrator tells how this is her last race she looks back at the race in a past tense voice and recalls the race. The plot is she runs her last race and at the end she feels that it meant nothing to her. She tells how she moves the next summer to study......

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