Maniac Magee Lesson Plan

How do you think ignorance affects the way people from the East End and West End treat and view each other?

Students should discuss the different ways people talk about those who live on opposing side of Two Mills, like when Grayson asks questions about what people eat or in the beginning of the story when Amanda is suspicious of Maniac. The lack of exposure to people from the other side of town creates a lack of understanding about the people who live there. Because this has gone on for so long, it has created hostility between the two sides. In the most extreme case, it even affects certain characters, like the McNabs to think the other side is full of violent people...