Raymond's Run Essay

She normally goes on her walks to practice her breathing exercises and, “[keeps] Raymond on the inside of [her]...which is OK by [her] so long as he doesn’t run [her] over or interrupt [her] breathing exercises” (Bambara 2). When the race is finished, she decides that she is going to devote her attention to helping Raymond develop into a skilled runner. She decides she's going to “begin a whole new career as a coach with Raymond as my champion” (Bambara 6). From the beginning of the story to the end, she goes from thinking of herself as the main priority to recognizing that she has the capability to help others, and she is going to put her skills to use on Raymond. Finally, Squeaky learns to have respect for other girls. Squeaky believes that girls have the inability to be true friends with each other. When Gretchen smiles at her, she misinterprets it for a fake smile because, “girls never really smile at each other because they don’t know how and don’t want to know how and there’s probably no one to teach us how, cause grown-up girls don’t know either” (Bambara

Both girls are similar more than they know it. Squeaky loves to run and be the best, while Gretchen runs to try to beat Squeaky. They both were the forgiving type when they came to an agreement and try to get along, even if they were enemies to begin with. They both claimed that they were the best, Squeaky stating that “ There is no track meet that [She] don’t win the first-place medal”(Bambara,23), meaning that she believes that no one can beat her. Gretchen is also a very good runner, Squeaky even stated that ” …[She] smile. Because she’s good, no doubt about it”(Bambara,32). They both agreed that they were very competitive towards each other and Squeaky believes that they can get along and coach Raymond.

Squeaky and Raymond are walking down the street when they encounter Gretchen and her friends in which they get into a heated argument that just fuels Squeaky's selfish nature. Some evidence of this is ““I always win because I’m the best,” I say straight at Gretchen who is, as far as I’m concerned, the only one talking in this ventriloquist-dummy routine.” We see that Squeaky refuses to even acknowledge the other girls, and this is because she is talking to Gretchen who is Squeakys rival. We know that Squeaky is bent on winning every race against Gretchin, this again shows that the most important thing to Squeaky is winning and not others. That is the definition of selfishness.

This displays that Gretchen also regards Squeaky for out-competing her instead of resenting her and actually accepts that Squeaky is better than her. The smile was very genuine and showed an “sense” of appreciation and dignity around them which means that the smile was very real which meant real respect. After the “sense” of respect, Squeaky said “like being people” which proves she meant that the phrase “like being people” means a person would show real and genuine respect to people better than her at something or for doing good

However, in the same paragraph when she explains that she’d rather take her chances being a little girl with skinny arms and a squeaky voice, the author states “And if things get too rough, I run”, showing character change from much rather wanting to knock people down to running away when it gets too heated since she's small and would rather stand up for her brother and run away when it gets physical. In this scene you can see that Squeaky is very tough and cares about her brother very much, showing that she really loves him, which leads to my next point. Toni develops the theme in the middle of the story by using techniques such as character interactions. An example of character interaction is when Gretchen and her friends all bump into Squeaky and have some tension, and since Squeaky ignored Gretchen’s friends she said, “I always win cause I’m the best,” “I say straight at Gretchen” (9). This shows that Gretchen and Squeaky aren’t really friends and just think of each other as competition.

In the story Raymond’s run squeaky loves to run. Squeaky is training for the run that she has one for the last 4 years. And all the runners in it squeaky does not. Because she is competing with them .All the runners in it like to run just like squeaky. Every year they try and try and she don’t know that the runners are getting there felling’s hurt but squeaky don’t think nothing about it.Then the day comes race day. Squeaky wins it again and she realizes that Raymond was running right beside her on the other side of the fence and Gretchen right beside her huffing and puffing like a pro does then squeaky realizes that she don’t have to hate her competitors and that she can do whatever she wonts if she believes in herself. Then she thinks

In the short story titled “Raymond's Run” Toni Cade Bambara focuses on a young girl named Squeaky who spends most of her time training for a very important race while caring for her brother Raymond who suffers from a condition called hydrocephalus. First, Tony points out that a girl named Gretchen may be Squeaky’s competition for the upcoming race while Squeaky tries hard to make sure societies beliefs don't get the best of her beloved brother Raymond. Next, Toni Bambara informers readers of how Squeaky feels before the race and how the final results between the girls may be close. Also, the writer reports that as Squeaky and Gretchen wait for the announcement of the winner she realizes it may not be so bad if she loses the race. In addition,

The same with the story told by Imagine Dragons in their song, “Whatever It Takes.” “Whatever it Takes” talks about loving to run, getting back up after getting put down, loving the feel of winning, loving the adrenaline, always having a fear of being typical, feeling miserable about own body, always hanging on to the stereotypical visual of what a person of that gender should be like, and wanting to be invisible. So, I think that “Raymond’s Run” and “Whatever It Takes” share a common/central theme of acceptance and loving to run. Throughout the short story, “Raymond’s Run” and the song “Whatever It Takes”, a common theme of acceptance shows up.

I believe that the reason why I think Raymond will be a runner like Squeaky is because that after the story ends, Squeaky will retire from racing so she can coach Raymond to run fast. My evidence for this is that in the story, after Squeaky saw how well Gretchen ran in the race, she says: “Maybe she’d like to help me coach Raymond.” This evidence shows that Squeaky is planning on helping Raymond by thinking that Gretchen could help her too. Another piece of evidence is in the climax when Squeaky first notices that Raymond was running really fast. When Squeaky noticed this, she was just amazed. So amazed that in the story she says: “I almost stop to watch my brother Raymond on his first run.” In conclusion, all of the evidence shows that Squeaky

I think Squeaky an excellent runner, learned an important lesson from Raymond her mentally challenged brother, and Gretchen her competition for the relay. Squeaky learns not to judge a book by its cover. Don’t judge a book by its cover means, don’t judge people, or chose how you treat, because of how they look. If Squeaky continue to do that she would have a hard life, because everyone don’t act like they look. That is a very bad habit for Squeaky. Hopefully she will get rid of it.

In a neighborhood in New York city, Squeaky is preparing an annual race that she always participates in and wins. Her brother Raymond is running with her as she is practicing, she is very protective towards him because he is “different”. She is running against the new girl Gretchen and people are saying she might get a run for her money. As the shots are fired to start the race, She notices Raymond running alongside keeping up with her and how fast he is. She never really noticed how fast he is until now and when she looks back at it, he always keeps up with her on her runs and how quickly he made it over the fence to congratulate her. She thinks he should join the race and next year and she wants to be his “coach”. After the race, she talks

She learns that she can change. She was cocky at the beginning, but at the end she stopped being so cocky because at the end of the race Squeaky barely won and learned not to be. She also stopped because Gretchen was that slow.

Raymond’s Run is a short story written by Toni Bambara Cade in 1960. The story is about a girl named Hazel, and her brother Raymond who is “not quite right”. Hazel loves running and she is always first in competitions. She is always looking out for Raymond and takes him with her when she is practicing, and also to the May Day race where Raymond starts running in his own unique style which changes Hazel’s view on Raymond, herself and the people around her.

Another emotion that Squeaky hides is caring. As the race is progressing, Squeaky and Gretchen are head to head to the finish line. As Squeaky turns to her left she sees nobody. But as she looks to the right she sees to people. Gretchen sprinting her life out and there was Raymond. Raymond was taking off on his first run. Squeaky was so proud that she almost stopped to look. In page 36, line 315 to 320, Squeaky says the quote,” And on the other side of the fence Raymond with his arms down to his side and his palms tucked behind him, running in his very own style, and it’s the first time I ever saw that and I almost stop to watch my brother Raymond on his first run.”This quote represents that Squeaky really cares about her brother Raymond.

Although, Squeaky Has won a lot of prizes for sports but what she realized at the end that she have to be the better person. And Gretchen showed her she was very serious about her running that Squeaky decided to leave all the other stuff in the past, Last but not least Squeaky