Raymond Squeaky Quotes

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

In the story Raymond’s Run, a girl nicknamed Squeaky talks about people in her life. Within this story, she talks about how she loves her brother for who he really is, but strongly dislikes people who are not honest about who they are. Squeaky knows what is truly important in life, which is being true to yourself. She does not care for what people think of her when she works hard to practice running. Squeaky also accepts her brother, Raymond, for who he is. One of her classmates, Cynthia Procter, works hard to accomplish tasks, but unlike Squeaky, she does not let people know that she is a determined worker. Squeaky is true to herself, and she should be.

Gretchen is the “mean girl” of the story, Squeaky stating that “...Gretchen who is, as far as [She’s] concerned, the only one talking in this ventriloquist-dummy routine”(Bambara, 26). Squeaky, on the other hand, seems to be the responsible one in the story, stating that “If anybody has something to say to Raymond...they have to come to [her]” (Bambara,23). Squeaky has to take care of her brother while Gretchen and her friends make fun of Raymond for his disability. Squeeky practices alone and lost her friend to Gretchen, while Gretchen makes Rosie and Mary Louise believe that she was going to win. Gretchen and Squeaky in the story seem to act as opposites, like a yin yang

I am going to tell about the characteristics about Squeaky, then I am going to talk about the characteristics of Gretchen from the story “Raymond's Run”. Then in my conclusion I will talk about how Gretchen and Squeaky are alike and different.

In the beginning of ‘Raymond’s Run’,we see how protective Squeaky is.For example,when she protects her handicapped brother from anyone.Or when she says that she’d rather knock you down herself these quotes show that Squeaky is very protective because these quotes are showing that she doesn’t want to open up.Like when she says that she would much

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 does not trust many girls because they are very untrustworthy and end their life always revolves around being the very best like her rival Gretchen. Then Squeaky thinks “Gretchen smiles, but it’s not a smile, and I’m thinking that 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.” Squeaky's focused on the concept of winning and not being bullied around. One other thing that she wants no one to be opposing her in her racing because she probably will be known that she lost to her enemy. She wants to be the best and did not understand why people don't understand and understood everybody. Once the race is over she acknowledges Gretchen ”And she nods to congratulate me and then she smiles. And I smile. We stand there with this big smile of respect between us. It’s about as real a smile as girls can do for each other, considering we don’t practice real smiling every day,you know, cause maybe we too busy being flowers” But then Squeaky and her former enemy became her friend. This leads the main character to not want to fight and Gretchen now has these feelings

In the beginning, Squeaky is really protective with her Raymond. When Squeaky goes practice running, she needs to bring Raymond with her. Another reason is, if Raymond gets bullied, Squeaky would come in and fight with the bullies.Squeaky would say to the bullies that “You got anything to say to my brother, you say it to me, Mary Louise Williams off Raggedy Town Baltimore.”This shows

The first reason why Squeaky is a memorables characteris because she is confident. For example, early on in the story,she comes right out and states, “There is no track meet that I don’t win the first place medal.” This shows Squeaky is extremely confident because she is positive that whenever she goes to a running meet , She will win. This unique confidence she shows possesses causes her to be

Even people who are different can do it. You don’t have to be perfect to accomplish great things. Squeaky realized that when she saw Raymond run for the first time in her life. I’m also guessing that in the future she will be coaching him. And Gretchen (the antagonist ) will also help too.

Raymond doesn’t say a whole lot in the story but, that doesn’t mean he can’t run. Squeaky’s brother can be just like her and act just like her. When Squeaky run

After reading the story Raymond’s run, I predict that Raymond will become an excellent runner just like Squeaky. Raymond looked up to Squeaky and as she continued to run and practice he grew on her. Raymond caught on to what Squeaky was doing and started to follow her.

In the story “Raymond’s run” the character Raymond actually runs and his proud little sister the track star Squeaky found out that he’s just as fast as her. Now this I the story bring a lot of speculation about whether or not Raymond become a runner like squeaky. I’m here to tell you that he will in fact be a runner maybe even better than squeaky and I’m going to tell you why, so let’s get started.

I predict that Raymond will become a runner like squeaky because, in the climax of the story during the race Raymond was climbing the fence, and the only reason he could have done what he did was by watching and practicing what his sister does. In the text it states: “Raymond with his arms down to his sides and palms tucked behind him, running his very own style, and it’s the first time I ever seen him run like that I almost had to stop and watch.” My textual evidence shows how Raymond evolved as a character in this story by watching and practicing overtime what he had seen. Despite, him being mentally challenged and having disabilities he was able to overcome. Raymond is an amazing, captivating, and empowering character in

25 Line 5) Squeaky thinks this when she is talking about what she has to do in life. Squeaky said this because the author wanted the readers to know how she feels about Raymond and her responsibilities. Also, the author wrote this because she wanted to Introduce Raymond and how people feel about him. It seems like Squeaky’s tough angry shell is just a way to put up walls or hide her emotions from the people around her