Read the excerpt from “Raymond's Run.”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.
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thinks very little of others.The narrator says she always wins first place and calls herself “the swiftest thing in the neighborhood.” She even expects to come in first, second, and third in the relay. These claims show that she is very self-confident, not doubtful or admiring of the big kids.
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