Maniac Magee

In the story, Maniac Magee, the author Jerry Spinelli developed Maniac as a smart character. One example from the story of how Maniac was considered a smart character was on the pages 10-13. In these pages, Maniac was roaming the town of Two Mills and ran into many people. The first person Maniac ran into was a girl named Amanda Beale, who kept all of her books in a heavily guarded suitcase. When Maniac and Amanda were talking, Maniac asked for a book, and at first, she said no, but then because of all Maniac’s knowledge of books and of how nice he was she finally said yes. He brought home the book and finished it in a day and a half. This is an example of how Maniac was smart. Maniac read books all the time and learned a lot through reading.…

in the same activities or eating the same foods but just in another part of town. The book Maniac Magee can be compared to the artwork New Kids in the Neighborhood in several ways by creating a mood dictated through the setting of racism. The setting of Maniac Magee takes place in a small town called Two Mills where blacks and whites are separated by Hector Street. Each side lives their own lives but never interfere with the opposite side as a result the mood can be characterized as sad.…

Maniac Magee is a very fascinating story about an orphan with the name of Jeffrey Magee and also known as the legend, Maniac Magee The book Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli is based on an orphan named Jeffrey Magee who is looking for the right place and home in the racially separated town he lives in. Maniac Magee is a realistic fiction book. Realistic Fiction is when a story is written with events that didn’t actually happen but had all the possibilities of happening. It’s possible for Maniac…

7 Paragraph Summary for Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli The main character’s name is Jeffrey Magee, and he can be described as an 11-year old boy. His parents had died when he was three. He desperately wants to be part of a family and to have a home with an address where he can come back every night. Jeffrey is very athletic and has many unusual skills. He earned the name “Maniac” because of his odd talents, such as bravely going into houses deemed scary by others, untying complicated knots, or…

protagonist, Jeffery Lionel “Maniac” Magee’s parents died in a trolley accident because the driver was drunk. He is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. They want a divorce, but they refuse to get one because they are Catholics. After living with them for 8 years, Manic runs away. The reason he runs away is because he is unhappy, due to his aunt and uncle disliking each other. He did not like the way things were. They had to share him daily. He ran to the town of…

Maniac Magee was written by Jerry Spinelli and was published by Little, Brown Books in 1990. The book is the 1st paperback edition. It focuses on themes such as racism, homelessness, and family. Jeffrey Magee, also called Maniac, was a young Caucasian boy who is completely indifferent to the racial stereotypes that run the lives of everybody else. He was a kind person, caring deeply about those who treat him well and even those who do not. He was athletic, able to run long distances at great…

The author Jerry Spinelli, shows that the book Maniac Magee uses descriptive details, dialogue, and actions, by the thoughts develop in the character Maniac Magee. Maniac Magee is a boy who wants to a have a normal family. When he has a family he tries his best to act like he’s part of the family. I say, Maniac Magee, because the author uses him by giving him a character trait. Thinking about it I gave Maniac the character trait Helpful. I chose this character trait because “Maniac carried out…

What were the strengths of the book? Racism is not an easy subject and is often not discussed with young children, which makes one the strengths of Jerry Spinelli novel Maniac Magee is how well it handles the topic of racism. In the novel Maniac Magee, the main protagonist Jeffery Magee lives with his hateful aunt and uncle after losing his parents because of the recklessness of a drunk driver. Eventually he runs away from his unbearable home life and ends up in Two Mills where everything is…

In the book, Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli showed that Maniac was fast in the beginning because he wrote that Maniac took a year to run 200 miles and when he wrote that, he also wrote, “...figuring the way he could run…” Jerry Spinelli also showed that Maniac was kind because, in the book, he wrote, “Maniac smiled. "We can fix it."” I thought that example showed that Maniac was kind because Maniac was saying to Amanda that they can fix the book instead of him just leaving her and saying that it…

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…