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heathergreen:

Choose a theme and write a paragraph that states your own interpretation of that theme in “Raymond’s Run.” Be sure to provide evidence and an explanation of your evidence.

heathergreen:

Can someone help me

umm:

Do you have the story of Raymond's Run?

heathergreen:

Yes

umm:

Can you please provide it?

heathergreen:

Yes, one second

umm:

Thank you.

heathergreen:

Theres alot

heathergreen:

I don’t have much work to do around the house like some girls. My mother does that. And I don’t have to earn my pocket money by hustling; George runs errands for the big boys and sells Christmas cards. And anything else that’s got to get done, my father does. All I have to do in life is mind my brother Raymond, which is enough. Sometimes I slip and say my little brother Raymond. But as any fool can see he’s much bigger and he’s older too. But a lot of people call him my little brother ’cause he needs looking after ’cause he’s not quite right. And a lot of smart mouths got lots to say about that too, especially when George was minding him. But now, if anybody has anything to say to Raymond, anything to say about his big head, they have to come by me. And I don’t play the dozens or believe in standing around with somebody in my face doing a lot of talking. I much rather just knock you down and take my chances even if I am a little girl with skinny arms and a squeaky voice, which is how I got the name Squeaky. And if things get too rough, I run. And as anybody can tell you, I’m the fastest thing on two feet. There is no track meet that I don’t win the first-place medal. I use to win the twenty-yard dash when I was a little kid in kindergarten. Nowadays, it’s the fifty-yard dash. And tomorrow I’m subject to run the quarter-meter relay all by myself and come in first, second, and third. The big kids call me Mercury ’cause I’m the swiftest thing in the neighborhood. Everybody knows that—except two people who know better, my father and me. He can beat me to Amsterdam Avenue with me having a two-fire-hydrant head start and him running with his hands in his pockets and whistling. But that’s private information. ’Cause can you imagine some thirty-five-year-old man stuffing himself into PAL shorts to race little kids? So as far as everyone’s concerned, I’m the fastest and that goes for Gretchen, too, who has put out the tale that she is going to win the first-place medal this year. Ridiculous. In the second place, she’s got short legs. In the third place, she’s got freckles. In the first place, no one can beat me and that’s all there is to it.

umm:

No problem. That's the main thing we need to actually understand the question that's been given.

heathergreen:

Ok

umm:

Give it a read and see if you can actually find a theme you're interested in.

heathergreen:

Ok

heathergreen:

Wouldn't her talking about how she's never gotten anything other than first place be a theme?

umm:

Go for it. Just don't forget textual evidence included and explanation as to why you've picked it.

heathergreen:

okie

umm:

You're doing great. (:

heathergreen:

:)

heathergreen:

thanks

umm:

No problem.

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