Persuasive Speech : ' Where Are You Going ! '

In “Raymond’s Run,” Squeaky is known to be independent and confident. In the beginning, she’s seen to not care what others think of her, and instead focuses on her running. However, she’s not truly herself until the end after she sees her brother running the race that she realizes she has to break down the wall she’s built around herself to become her real self and allow others to be like

When the race was over she saw her brother, Raymond excitedly running over to her and she was so happy to see him that it dawned on her that she didn’t even care if she won the race that she worked so hard to train for. “ I hear Raymond yanking at the fence to call me… remembering how he looks running with his arms down to his side and wind pulling his mouth back and his teeth showing and all… it occurred to me that Raymond would make a very fine runner. Doesn’t he always keep up with me on my trots? And he surely knows how to breathe in counts of seven’ cause he’s always doing it at the dinner table…” (Bambara 655). Squeaky is starting to notice that Raymond is a good runner and that winning makes her happy but seeing others like her brother Raymond makes her even happier. Squeaky is acting radiant. In addition, Squeaky shows more compassion to Gretchen. Squeaky and Gretchen don’t have the best history together but something changes towards the end of the race. “ And I look over at Gretchen… And I smile. ‘Cause she’s good, no doubt about it… maybe she’d like to help me coach Raymond; she obviously is serious about running, as any fool can see. She nods to congratulate me and then she smiles and I smile.”(Bambara 656). Gretchen and Squeaky have respect for each

Squeaky found value in Raymond when he climbed the fence, Squeaky became so excited. “And by the time he comes over i’m jumping up and down glad to see him- my brother Raymond, a great runner in the family tradition.” (Bambara 7) In fact, Squeaky was so happy she decided that she would rather stop track and help train Raymond. She even wondered if one of her competition would like to help. “Maybe she’d like to help me coach Raymond; she obviously is serious about running, as any fool can see.” (Bambara 7) That is how Squeaky finally

In the beginning of the short story “Raymond’s Run” the protagonist Squeaky only cares about herself and no one else. But throughout the story, she learns that caring for others and not just herself can have a positive impact on her life and would change everything. Squeaky is very selfish and want to be the fastest runner, and when everything goes wrong she runs. When she shows up at the races that is when she notices life is not all about her. When Mr. Peterson tells her to throw the race, and give someone else a try she looks at him squinting but not a nice squint.

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

“I-I-I just don’t… I just… Oh I don’t know, what did you have in mind.” Liz spit out.

In the beginning of Ramones Run by Toni Cade Bambara. Squeaky didn’t like Gretchen, they didn’t have respect for each other. Squeaky and Raymond where walking down the street and they saw that Gretchen and her sidekicks where with her, but squeaky didn’t move for them so they all said mean things to each other. After the race was over the man on the speaker took a while to say who won, Squeaky and Gretchen both smiled at each other for the good race. After the race they started to respect each other, the way we know that is because they both smiled at each other. They started to like each other because they had things in common with each other like running, also squeaky said “maybe she’d like to help me couch Raymond.” Characters started to

In the beginning of the story, you zoom in on Squeaky getting ready to run in the May Day race in Harlem. She talks about her life with Raymond and her bonds with her parents. She also keeps bringing up her love/passion for running. She runs into Gretchen during her run and you have a chance to see the true anger that lives behind the frustration. But is it really all anger?

Also why Raymond will be a good runner. Cause squeaky knows what to do cause she has won the race for the last 4 years. so she will train Raymond everything that she knows for

Squeaky exhibits how she projects great confidence in her running abilities. Squeaky states “‘If things get too rough I run, and that anybody can tell you I’m the fastest thing on two feet,”’(1) which illustrates that she knows of her ability to outrun almost anybody. In fact, she embodies the fastest thing in the neighborhood, so the big kids call her Mercury.(#18 begin with a transition word)Overflowing with frustration, from Gretchen’s false rumors, Squeaky declares

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

In the beginning of the story, Hazel Elizabeth Deborah Parker, also known as Squeaky, loves to run. For example, Squeaky trots around the block with her brother and also does breathing exercises while walking to the store with her mom. Squeaky is a very confident girl and runner. She is also very brave. What I mean by that is Squeaky has only one job, to take care of her older brother Raymond. In order to do that she has to be very brave. For example, one day, while doing a breathing exercise, Gretchen and her sidekicks came up and one of Gretchen’s sidekicks made a comment on how big Raymond’s head is. Well Squeaky had to be brave and stand up for Raymond because Raymond is a little slow on things. Near the end there is a big race,

It was a couple months later when Squeaky had her last race. Raymond and Squeaky have signed up for a track team and made it in. They are in many races during the season. They are great at the track. They are undefeated. They traveled to many cities and states to race. The closest they were defeated was when they raced this one boy name Jef. He was a foot from beating them. Raymond said “That was close”

Not just in running. Squeaky has a hard time living with many problems in her life-- from having an enemy who competes against her in running--to a bigger problem that she cannot solve on her own: having to care for a brother that is mentally disabled. Squeaky needs to balance out her life by trying to act normal and hiding the sadness that she has from her mother acting like she is “somebody else’s crazy child”. She tries to hide from the sadness of having a mentally disabled brother; hide from the sadness that people try to hurt her brother; Hide from the sadness that Gretchen is really mean to her and taking Squeaky’s friends away from her. Squeaky balances out her life by running because running is very powerful for her. It takes away all the thoughts about the bad events in her life. She can finally do something that she likes--she can finally enjoy a feeling of happiness while the cool breeze tickles her face and she hears nothing but the “crunch as [she] zooms over the gravel.” Squeaky uses this belief in herself whenever she comes across problems. She feels strong and brave when she runs. Even though her mother might be disappointed that Squeaky does not wear a “white organdy dress” she is not scared to show people who she is. She does this because she is not a “strawberry” but a runner. As Mark Twain once said, “A man

“She can’t be around my house anymore. I’m afraid of what I’ll do to her. She did this to him. Don’t you get it? She took his eyes.”