Style

The style that Toni Cade Bambara uses in the story "Raymond's Run" are situational irony and dramatic irony. I say the story is a situational irony, because at the end of the story. Squeaky and Gretchen both shows respect to each other, which is kind of not what I have expected. From the previous paragraph, the story has shown that Squeaky is an cocky and suacy little girl. She keeps on believing herself the fastest and the swiftest in the neighborhood. Also, she keeps on saying the people who are good bad. She thinks that they don't deserve it. From these characteristics of Squeaky, it is pretty hard to imagine that she will respect Gretchen after the race. I thought she will laugh at her, or do something that can embarass her. Another elements of style in the story "Raymond's Run" is the dramatic irony. Squeaky always think that she is the fastest, but we all know that is not true. Second, we all know that she say those bad things to Gretchen is all because she afraids that Gretchen will beat her in the race. She is just jealous and scared. However, Squeaky herself doesn't know.