Style

In "Raymond's Run", the author, Toni Cade Bambara used allusions, dialect, irony and imagery for her style. I am choosing to write about irony and imagery. For irony, it's situational irony because the ending was actually quite surprising. In most stories I've read, when a person is too cocky, they eventually gets a lesson by failing once or even many times. And in the beginning, Squeaky was very cocky, and when I read about Gretchen, I was thinking that Gretchen will win this race this time because Squeaky is supposed to get a lesson. But then, the ending of the story showed that Squeaky still won the race. Another part which is ironic is the part when Squeaky and Gretchen smile at each other after the race. Before the race, they were still enemies, but after the race, their attitude towards each other changed. I thought that Gretchen will cry and jump on Squeaky and hit or bite her. Ok, I'm exaggerating it, but it's basically what i mean. She used imagery before Squeaky started the race. She was imagining herself in a dream, flying over beaches and stuff. The words she used was really descriptive, so it is imagery.