Squeaky Character Analysis

Squeaky is a proud sister, she’s sassy, she is protective and takes care of her brother Raymond in the book Raymond’s Run by Toni Cade Bambara. Squeaky is proud of Raymond because after she finishes the race, he comes running to her, showing he keeps up with his sister and she realizes he is a very fine runner. She takes care of him because she is the one looking after him taking him out and helping him. She does love him and takes care of him because when Mary Louise Williams asks a question to Raymond, Squeaky chimes in to tell her if she has something to tell Raymond, they will have to tell it to Squeaky first. She is also sassy when Mary Louise asks a question.

And above all she wants to be the best at everything. These are all connected to being determined because she wants to do all this and she is dedicated into that. The first reason why Squeaky is determined is because she stands up for her brother Raymond. In the story it says “That’s right fatso.

She prides herself at protecting her brother Raymond from other people and being self-confident. This is when she mentions, “… if anybody has anything to say to Raymond, anything to say about his big head, they have to come by me.”(Bambara 26). She takes dignity in herself, in being a very fast runner when she says, “And as anybody can tell you, I’m the fastest thing on two feet.” (Bambara 26). As you can see, Squeaky describes herself as someone who is genuine. When a specific task is difficult for her, she practices and studies. She is never ashamed of the arduous work she has to put in to be successful. Also, when she says, "Now some people like to act like things come easy to them, won’t let on that they practice. Not me” (Bambara 28). In more explanation, she describes herself who doesn’t take shame in showing who she really

The first reason Squeaky loves running is that she practices almost every day. For example, the text tells the readers “ about to take a stroll down Broadway so I can practice my breathing exercise.” This example shows us that she is practicing for a track meet. Another example from the text is “I’m breathing in counts of seven, my lucky number.” This example shows us that her lucky number is seven and how she practices

She is still the same person she was just a moment ago; snotty, mouthy, and disrespectful. She is shown to have no filter when she says things. Squeaky is referring back to Nursery School when her parents forced her to dress up. She absolutely despised it and thinks “I am not a strawberry. I do not dance on my toes. I run” (Bambara 108). She prides herself on being different from others but does it in a mouthy and unnecessary way. When Squeaky is receiving her pin number from Mr. Pearson, he calls her “Squeaky”. Her thought process is that if she can’t call him Beanstalk, he can’t call her squeaky. “Hazel Elizabeth Deborah Parker, I correct him and tell him to write it down on his board” (Bambara 109). This shows that Squeaky is snotty. She has no problem biting back against anyone and anything. After this, Mr. Pearson tells Squeaky about how Gretchen, her arch nemesis, will give her a “run for her money”, and he even lightly suggests that Squeaky should go easy on her. “I give him such a look that he couldn’t finish that idea into words” (Bambara 109). The fact that Mr. Pearson even nudges the idea of allowing someone else to win makes her offended and furious. Squeaky is even disrespectful towards adults. She is the same person as she was in the beginning and only shows that side of

Emotions and character traits such as confidence, being hard working... are what define us. Every day we experience millions of emotions. Based on what we say or do, it makes up other's people mind about us. It also shapes how they think about us and treat us. One character who is defined by her social emotions is the protagonist Hazel Elizabeth Deborah Parker, also known as Squeaky, from the story “Raymond’s Run”, by Toni Cade Bambara. Squeaky may be bossy, sassy… but she has to face many problems; one of these is defending and helping her mentally challenged brother, Raymond. Throughout the story, Squeaky feels like Raymond is an obstacle. However, when she competes in the big May Day race (she has a competition for the first time this year against her new rival, Gretchen), she sees some value

Squeaky isn’t the only one with talent in this story. The conflict in the story comes from a new girl in town named Gretchen, who is determined to beat Squeaky in the May Day race. When it comes to the race, she actually proves to be quite talented. As Squeaky says, “‘Cause she’s good, no doubt about it.” Gretchen herself knows that she is talented. Squeaky doesn’t realize this until the end of the story.

In the short story “Raymond's Run” by Toni Cade, Squeaky Is the “spunky kid’. Squeaky is very spunky because, she does whatever makes her happy, and is not afraid to stand up for herself or anybody else. In the short story, it is shown that she does whatever makes her happy. Although running is not the most popular sport, and not many people do it, she still does it (1). This shows how she is spunky because she does not care what everyone else is doing, she just does what makes her happy. She also isn't afraid to stand up for herself, or anyone else. Not only is she not scared to stand up for herself, but for her brother. “You got anything to say to my brother, you say it to me, Mary Louise Williams of raggedy town, Baltimore” (3). This shows

Another common theme in this story is gender stereotypes, which Squeaky follows and believes, is that girls don’t necessarily get along with each other. In the story, the stereotype presented is that They fight with each other, sometimes alone, and sometimes in groups. That is why it is surprising that Squeaky learns to get along with the antagonist of the story, Gretchen, at the end of the story, as seen in the following quote. We stand there with this big smile of respect between us. It’s about as

Although confidence is a good trait to have, too much may blind you from someone else’s talents. The main character of Raymond’s Run is a girl named Squeaky, which is her nickname, who is full of pride and has to take care of her “little” brother Raymond. Squeaky’s main goal in the story is to win the 50-yard dash. She has confidence and pride, but it bit too much of it. Throughout the story, Squeaky changes from an over-confident, narrow-minded girl to a more open-minded person.

Squeaky narrates and uses interior monologue to describe her sad life. At the current point in time, she starts thinking about her mentally challenged brother, Raymond, and how she gets into a lot of fights. This is because they bully him and get away with it. Since Squeaky gets into a lot of fights, she is advantaged and disadvantaged at times. She manages to use her bravery to her advantage as she even advantages herself in times of disadvantage.

“That’s right, Fatso. And the next word out of anybody and I’ll be their mother too.” (p. 39, lines 155-160). Squeaky experiences the character trait aggression when she encounters Raymond’s bullies again. Squeaky’s trait sums up her actions and opinion towards the three bullies causing her to threaten them as they try having verbal contact with Raymond.

Squeaky cares about her brother, Raymond a lot and she protects him like a mother. Mary Louise comes with her friends to talk with squeaky, and she tells her how she is not fast. Then she tries to ask Raymond something, but Squeaky stops her. “ You got anything to say to my brother you say it to me, Mary Louise Williams of Raggedy Town, Baltimore.”(Bambara 3) This quote explains how much she cares and is very protective. Rosie tries to be mean and asks squeaky, if she was Raymond’s mother. “ Thats right fatso, And the next word out of anybody and I’ll be their mother too.”(Bambara 3) This explains how squeaky could do anything for her brother no matter what.

In a all Squeaky is a great character she is my favorite out of the story. She wont back down from anything and she reminds me of myself because she has a big heart and the heart of a lion. No matter what she never gives up and she is willing to fight who ever also she will go through any challenge to be the best she can be. She is a great person and she takes care of her brother which I also like about her. She doesn't care who you are or how big you are she will go at you with everything shes got she knows her size but she doesn't care she is a young

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.