Raymond Run By TONI CADE BAMBARA Setting HARLEM

Raymond Run By TONI CADE BAMBARA

Setting: � HARLEM, NEW YORK

Summary �“Raymond Run” is Tony Cade Bambara short story about a young girl named Hazel Elizabeth Deborah Parker and her brother Raymond. Hazel has a couple of nick names, including squeaky, because she has a squeaky , and mercury , because she is fast like quicksilver when she runs. In the first person point of view , hazel dictates quite a bit of information about herself , her neighborhood , her brother , and other children as she walks down the street with her brother , Raymond. She is six years old and she love to run. In fact , she takes her running very seriously and pride herself in being the fastest runner in her age group and in her neighborhood. She admits , however, that her father is the one person who is faster than she is, although, she says that is a secret.

PLOT Exposition: �Here we find out squeaky is a fast runner, we meet her mentality challenged brother and get Background on how raymond lives his life and how people usually treat him.

Rising Action �Here we have the stroll between Raymond and squeaky. Also conflict between hazel and gretchen , and Raymond settled into the swing before the race

Climax �Here Hazel runs the race and win it. Hazel said: if I have lost the race , or if me and gretchen tied , or even if I have won , I can always retire as a runner and begin a whole new career as a coach with Raymond as my champion.

Falling action �Here Hazel was anounced as a winner only.

Denouement �Gretchen and hazel smile at each other, and hazel says: We stand their with this big smile of respect between us.