Read the excerpt from "Raymond's Run.” "Well, Hazel Elizabeth Deborah Parker, going to give someone else a break this year?” I squint at [Mr. Pearson] real hard to see if he is seriously thinking I should lose the race on purpose just to give someone else a break... "That new girl should give you a run for your money.” He looks around the park for Gretchen like a periscope in a submarine movie . . . I give him such a look he couldn’t finish putting that idea into words. Grownups got a lot of nerve sometimes. The narrative voice in this passage allows readers to make a judgment about
The passage is told from Hazel’s point of view, so readers hear her thoughts and reactions to Mr. Pearson. She thinks he has “a lot of nerve” for suggesting that she let someone else win, which shapes the reader’s judgment of him as pushy or insensitive. The passage gives less information for judging the race, Gretchen, or the park.
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