Jerry Spinelli's Maniac Magee

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Her stories are fiction, but they use aspects from people she has encountered in her daily life. Lower and middle class characters appear the most frequently throughout her works. The way she uses these ordinary people and transforms them into dynamic characters is unmatched. She uses very lengthy and in-depth descriptions of her character’s inner qualities that shape who they are. She uses these descriptions to show the inner workings of the character’s minds through an omniscient view (Entzminger 685-66).

The book Maniac Magee, the author Jerry Spinelli, Amanda Beale one of the character’s from Maniac Magee is smart. She is smart because she had many books in a soup case so she could read. Amanda was black, but black people didn’t have great schools like white did, but she was still smart even though white had better school. One way the author developed a character trait is Amanda was smart to put all here books it soup case and have it in alphabetical order. This was smart of idea because she can find out where all her books

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Amanda loves Laura and Tom tremendously. From what we are shown in the story, her children

Jerry Spinelli the author of Maniac Magee developed the main character, Amanda Beale, using descriptive details, dialogue, actions, and thoughts. A character trait good for Amanda Beale is caring. Reasons why Amanda Beale is caring is because in some places in the book Amanda shows why she’s caring. The following quotes are reasons why Amanda is caring. The first quote is, “ ‘You’ll freeze to death in the winter. You’re fingers’ll get so stiff they’ll break like icicles.’ ” In this part of the book Amanda was worried that Maniac was going to leave the Beale’s house and is trying to convince him that he shouldn’t go. The second quote said, “Amanda was pedaling frantically up to him, slapping on a quick smile and gasping, ‘Hey, I’m going to the

One way the author developed this trait is by having Amanda carry a suitcase it was full of books because she knew that her sister and her brother would draw in her books. Also, she didn’t leave her books at home because she knew that her dog would probably chew it up or eat.

Jerry Spinelli showed Amanda Beale, in the book Maniac Magee to be a cooperative character. Amanda Beale a character in the book was revealed to be a Cooperative character. In Chapter 13. Of the book, Maniac Magee Amanda Beale revealed to be a Cooperative character because Amanda collaborated with her parents to move out most of her things out of her room so that Maniac Magee could sleep in her room. Another example from the book that revealed that Amanda Beale was a cooperative character in Chapter 12. In chapter 12 Amanda Beale collaborated with Maniac Magee to fix her book. Amanda leaned Maniac one of her books, once Maniac returned the book the book turned out to be damaged in that case Amanda Beale collaborated with Maniac to fix her

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When Amanda’s parents asks him where to drop him off but he says he does not have a home. At Amanda’s house he gets new clothes from Amanda’s mom so he can wear nice clean clothes. At Amanda’s house Maniac Magee gets his new address in both the movie and the book. Amanda asks if Maniac can stay which they both have in common.

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Amanda’s strong and outgoing personality has made Laura become submissive painfully shy and self-conscious. She never let Laura make her own decisions. Laura was forced to attend a Business College because her mother wanted to, which resulted her escaping from school. So, to retreat from the real world, she resorted to playing her victrolla and admires her glass menagerie collection.

Amanda Perkins has died, Lila’s cousin and Stephanie’s best friend. As the crowd of black drifted to the open gates of the church to wish her blessings, Lila weeped in a tiny corner, desperately trying to keep her voice low. She didn’t want anyone to hear. Amanda was murdered. Who could have done this to her? Amanda had disappeared about 17 weeks ago. She went out running and never returned home. Lila’s aunt, aunt Allie, had filed a missing persons case but the case was never solved. Uncle Jonathan gave up while Aunt Allie had hope. She always believed that Amanda would return. When Amanda finally did return, she was already dead. Killed by someone who hasn’t been identified yet. Stephanie slumped down the aisle to where she was supposed to sit. That seat was facing the open casket, where her BFF lay.