Maniac Magee In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

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Maniac Magee is a helpful and smart person that loves to read books. I think a good character trait for Maniac Magee would be responsible. I think this because he is very manageable and he has great control over things. He is also responsible for anything that is fragile, something that is a lot of money, or when it has sentimental value. To prove he is responsible is “So what if I loan you one, huh? How am I going to get it back?” “I will bring it back. Honest! If it’s the last thing I do. What’s your address?” “Seven twenty-eight Sycamore. But you can’t come here. You can;t even be here.” The second bell rang. Amanda screamed, whirled, ran. “Amanda!” She stopped and turned. “Ohhhh,” she asked. She tore a book from the suitcase, hurled it …show more content…
And so he read Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile to Hester and Lester and, even though they pretended not to listen, to Amanda and Mr. and Mrs. Beale. He has great collaboration and one example is “But Hands took him anyway and played quarterback and threw passes to Maniac all day long. They huddled and scratched their plays in the dirt. Down to the tin can break for the goal. Stop and go at the rock. Curl around the junked tire. If Hands pass was anywhere near Maniac, if Maniac could get at least two fingertips on it, the ball was good as caught. The high-schoolers and junior-highers went crazy trying to stop him. Nobody kept official records that day, but legend has it that by the time Amanda Beale showed up and called, “Jeffrey dinner!” Maniac had scored forty-nine TDs. The second way he collaborated was when he helped to fix Amanda’s book and the last example is when I helped Grayson how to read different books and read the

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