Maniac Magee Spinelli: Amanda Beale As An Intelligent Person

What I found to be interesting is that she goes into the former inmates ' neighborhoods and mixes herself in their lives as if she were them and actually takes ` it in. She sees immediately the differences between the white and the minority neighborhoods, and she also works with the realities of the situation. For example, in Convicted at Birth chapter four, Wynn

Have you ever noticed how some people just stand out from the crowd? Like the clouds in the sky and blades of grass, people are all different. “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker has a good example of an interesting, unique character. Maggie is a young girl who is not only physically but also mentally scarred. The way the burning house, her stuck-up sister, and society affects Maggie makes her different from everyone else.

“Everything is not what it seems,” while this lyric may seem trite, it holds great truth. People, places, activities, each can be viewed in more than one way depending on the circumstances. From these viewpoints spring complexities and mystery in the shape of differing facades.

and memory and the past. She is one of the most interesting characters in the book.

book and that Paris is the book". This shows the love of one parent to

and evil. These aspects are the result of plot development. In her novel, To Kill a

that especially makes her admirable is the way she grows into a young woman who

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

of why she's apprehensive of the books, other than that because the society says she should be.

She knows exactly how to keep you hooked and wanting to read more. For instance, in the beginning of the book where she sees her mother digging through the trash and just goes home leaving you wondering why she was digging in the trash in the first place. Another character that she leaves you wondering about is her dad. He is so smart but when he gets wasted on alcohol he becomes this violent person who throws things around threatening to hurt people. By making these characters come to life, Jeannette keeps you locked on the novel and hungry for more.

traits from that of a child and possesses traits which helps develop the themes throughout the book.

I believe Isabel has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) because of her uncontrollable obsessions with certain thoughts that results in compulsions which is an impulsive behavior that are performed repeatedly. As stated “she packs and repacks her books.”

In literature and media, authors portray the strong character traits of people willing to risk taking a stand. In the video from The Moth, Aleeza Kazmi demonstrates an inspiring and resilient character trait. Ruby Bridges, in the biography Through my eyes, displays heroic character.finally, Harriet Tubman models optimistic characteristic trait in her biography titled conductor of the underground Railroad. First of all, In the video from The Moth, Aleeza kazmi demonstrates inspiring and resilient character trait. Aleeza explained her opinion by giving a wonderful speech about her elementary school story and she wanted to explain the people that color can not belong to people.

In Stephen Crane’s book Maggie: A Girl of the Streets there are various themes, one of them is the impact of the social environment. The impact of social environment is how people are products of their own environment and people are who they grew up to be due to the conditions, people, and environment that surrounds them. The Bowery is 14 blocks and has 82 bars there that make alcohol very accessible to the residents, including children. The Bowery has a negative impact on people and even children that live there. The Bowery is a concrete jungle where only the strong survive. The living conditions are unquestionably poor and the tenements where they live is full of immigrants. The kids in the Bowery live with alcoholic and abusive parents, pregnant women who are not married, and finally prostitutes. Maggie, Jimmie, and Pete are all characters that deserve forgiveness due to Stephen Crane message, people are products of their own environment and deserve forgiveness.