Dolphus Raymond, a wealthy white man, is teetering at the lower edge of society. She is another character of the story. The story takes place in Harlem New York. As a strong girl, she protects him at every cost by shielding him from insults and mockery. She looks at her former rival with new respect, thinking that perhaps Gretchen is the type of person who would help coach Raymond. Then Gretchen, who is a girl who is very sassy and thinks she can beat Squeaky in the race.
An outright bluntness on the part of the narrator to expose the social facade shadows the entire piece that contrasts the optimism she displays towards her brother. Raymond is a mentally challenged boy who is Squeakys brother and he is always in his own world. Between Dreams and Reality In the story, Hazel tries several times to step outside of herself and her life. Gretchen and Sqeuaky compete against one another and Squeaky wins. She wishes to coach him to be an athlete as he has not achieved anything yet while her room is full of trophies.
What qualities are worthy of respect and friendship? Squeaky also claims that, she would rather knock her competitor down and take her chances despite her squeaky voice and skinny arms. In this paper, I will give a few examples of why I think the theme in the story is to always do the right thing. Throughout the story, she constantly critiques the damage that girls do to one another by pretending to be something that they are not, whether it is Cynthia pretending to be effortlessly perfect, the girls in May Day dresses pretending to be fairies or flowers, or Mary Louise pretending that she was never friends with Hazel. The Red Kayak Analysis 495 Words 2 Pages Your parents are always telling you to do do the right thing, aren't they? Squeaky is fast girl with skinny arms and skinny legs. In continuation, a reader of the novel may get the impression, at the beginning of the book, that Amir is just an ungrateful child that receives everything he wants, but in reality that is not the case.
In this way, she turns the gender spectrum where a man is seen fit to be responsible to look after a woman. The girls who dance around the May Pole in their dresses pretend to be what society expects of girls. Pearson fumbles over, clumsily dropping things as he towers over the crowd on stilts. She is a tall, long, skinny girl, who is very competitive and she loves to run. He is a prosperous white man who lives outside of Macomb with his black paramour and his mixed children.
The main characters in Raymond's Run are, Squeaky, Raymond, and Gretchen. The big guys with their caps on backwards, leaning against the fence swirling the basketballs on the tips of their fingers, waiting for all these crazy people to clear out the park so they can play. The main idea of the story is that, squeaky can teach Raymond to be good runner, and you shouldn't be prejudice towards other people until you get to know them better. Pearson call her by her full name underscores this: she bristles whenever she senses that someone is trying to make her feel inferior. So I stand there with my new plans, laughing out loud by this time as Raymond jumps down from the fence and runs over with his teeth showing and his arms down to the side, which no one before him has quite mastered as a running style. That shows that he is very disciplined and determined page one, paragraph three.
Squeaky and her presumable mentally unsound brother Raymond form the central characters of the story. She starts to change her attention from herself to her brother. She is a short girl with freckles that thinks she can beat Squeaky racing. After all, with a little more study I can beat Cynthia and her phony self at the spelling bee. Gretchen thinks she can beat her in the race that takes place in Harlem New York. Charlie throws the ball too high and it breaks the window of a car. This strong work ethic is part of her personality; she does not care for people who pretend that things come easy to them.
She thinks that Raymond would actually make a good runner—he always keeps up with Squeaky when she practices and even mimics her breathing exercises. In the story, squeaky changes into caring girl from her initial selfish and mean practices. Squeaky as well discovered that Gretchen was a good athlete who she could corporate with to assist Raymond become a professional athlete. She could even beat Cynthia in the spelling bee if she studied hard enough, or she could become a star on the piano if she could convince her mother to get her lessons. It seems unfair, then, that Squeaky is soley responsible for supervising him at such a young age, especially since Raymond is older and bigger than she is. At the climax of the story, a new Raymond draws the attention of his sister.
However, an assumption about a mental disorder surfacing in his life fits best with his physical and behavioral attributes. I stay up all night studying the words for the spelling bee. People like Lennie, Crooks, and Candy were three types of people that was seen as outcasts and people that should not be in society. Squeaky sees that Gretchen overshot the finish line, too, and is now walking back while breathing steadily like a professional would. . It is evident she possesses no head of her own and is a clingy follower of Gretchen who likes to bully weak people like Raymond.
However Geoffrey and his three brothers weren't, they came into the neighborhood as a clean slate. At the end of this story, Squeaky and Gretchen smile at each other and may become friendly in the future. She thinks that adults can have a lot of nerve. She also see's Squeaky and Raymond down the street when she is with Mary Louise. Because part of her responsibility to her family is watching out for her brother who has intellectual challenges, she takes Raymond with her as she trains.