In the book, Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli uses detailed thoughts, actions, and dialogue to develop the character, Earl Grayson. Spinelli used many of these things to make Grayson come off as a sedulous person. One way Grayson is sedulous is that he worked very hard to achieve his goal of reading. A part of the text reads, ¨Sometimes he got m and n mixed up, but the only one that gave him trouble was c. It reminded him of a bronc some cowboy dared him to ride in his Texas League days.¨ A few lines later, it reads, ¨Whenever that happened, he´d just climb right back on and ride ´er some more. Pretty soon c saw who was boss and gave up the fight.¨ This is quote proves Grayson is sedulous because, it shows how he worked hard to read, and that even
