The spelling and word choice at work might imply Hazel is a simple country bumpkin, however there are subtle nuances here and there that show she is anything but. The usage and misusage of apostrophes seems deliberate in each and every case. While word endings that drop the consonant lack apostrophes where the missing letter says they should be, contractions and possessive nouns still contain them. If Hazel is indeed the one writing this story, then, it shows she is well aware of how they are used. Through both the character’s trickster nature and also her deliberate style choices, Hazel is obviously more intelligent than she lets