Who Said It?
"So why don't you go ahead and teach me how to read?"
Who is Grayson?
Maniac and Grayson's holidays at the band shell provide evidence to this theme.
What is friendship?
Maniac vs. Mars Bar
Maniac vs. Giant John
Maniac vs. the Cobras
What is man vs man conflict?
"To the ordinary person, Cobble's Knot was about as friendly as a nest of yellow jackets," is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
"One oh one Bandshell Boulevard!"
Who is Maniac Magee?
The scene of neighborhood children playing in the fire hydrant on an August day is evidence of this theme.
What is community?
Maniac Magee runs in order to process his feelings of frustration, anger, hurt, and sadness.
What is internal conflict or the conflict of man vs. himself?
"...lugging and grunting them them in from the backyard and dropping them onto the floor. Thump! Thump!" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is onomatopoeia?
"And don't think you're taking any of my books with you this time, either. And you can forget about - ever - getting a chance to open my encyclopedia A which I was almost ready to let you do before you started acting all poopy!"
Who is Amanda Beale?
Grayson learning to read and Manaic using his work money to buy books at the library are both evidence of this theme.
What is the value of learning?
"ISHBELLY GO HOME" being chalked on the Beale's home is an example of this type of conflict
What is man vs. society?
"January slipped an icy finger under his collar and down his back," is an example of this type figurative language.
What is personification?
"Maybe nobody told you - I'm badder than ever. I'm getting badder everyday."
Who is Mars Bar Thompson?
Mars Bar, Amanda, and Maniac all going home to the East End at the end of the novel is evidence of this theme.
What is acceptance?
The character whose prideful pitching and arrogant attitude escalated even after Maniac Magee hit the world's first "frogball for a four bagger."
Who is John McNab?
"Finsterwald's backyard was a graveyard of tennis balls and baseballs and footballs and Frisbees and model airplanes and one-way boomerangs," is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
" 'Member I said 'bout the little white dude snatched the pass off me in gym class? 'ere he is. This is the dude!"
Who is Hands Down?
Grayson thinking the Beales wouldn't eat mashed potatoes or the McNabs building a fort in their living room is evidence of this theme.
What is stereotyping?
Maniac's decision to bring this character to the McNab party did not go like Maniac had planned because of the McNab's ignorance.
Who is Mars Bar Thompson?
"John McNab was a giant," is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?