Raymond Squeaky Quotes

In life, a lot of people are overprotective of others and it’s mostly toward loved ones, after all, people want to protect the ones they want to keep around for a long time. In “Raymond's Run” by Toni Cade Bambara, Squeaky is very protective of her brother Raymond because he cannot protect himself. These are three reasons why I think Squeaky is very protective of Raymond.

This is the first reason that shows how protective Squeaky is of Raymond is that when people run into her she takes everything seriously when she is with Raymond or if it’s about him. For example, when Gretchen came up to Squeaky and Raymond and they started talking then when Mary asked “What grade you in now, Raymond?” then Squeaky replies, “You got anything to say to my brother, you say it to me, Mary Louise Williams of Raggedy Town, Baltimore.” “What are you, his mother?” sasses Rosie. “That’s right, Fatso. And the next word out of anybody, and I’ll be their mother too.” Squeaky replies. This shows how protective of Raymond Squeaky is.

For example, while they are walking she is protecting him by keeping him on the inside of the road, “cause he’s subject to fits of fantasy” while he’s walking he might think that “he’s a circus performer and that the curb is a tightrope strung high in the air.” She might even be thinking that he might go towards the street into the cars while in his fantasy world. This shows how protective of Raymond Squeaky