2007-03-19 13:49:23 · 4 answers · asked by BriJoy 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Amanda Beale is a young black girl who attends elementary school in the East End. She has a small library of books that she is “finicky about.” To prevent her brother, sister, and dog from ruining her books, she carries them to school everyday in a suitcase. Her most prized possession is her Volume A of an encyclopedia.
Amanda is a friendly and generous person. Even though she is suspicious of Maniac, a white stranger, she loans him one of her books and later defends him and invites him to her home. She gives up her room so Maniac can live with her family and she shares her books with him.
Like Maniac, Amanda is not prejudiced towards the opposite race. She loves him as a brother despite his white skin color. Amanda tries to protect Maniac from the cruelty of discrimination by preventing him from seeing the racial epithet that is written on the side of the Beales’ house. She is hurt when Maniac leaves. At the conclusion of the novel, Amanda accompanies Mars Bar to the zoo (where Maniac is sleeping) to urge Maniac to return to the Beales’ house to live. She tells Maniac that he is going home with her and he is “going to sleep there tonight and tomorrow night and the night after that and every night. . . .”
Amanda Beale is a sweet girl who thinks books are important. Amanda thinks books are important because they help her learn and give her pleasure. She always feels strong and proud to be herself because of her wonderful life. Most people react to Amanda with an argument or an agreement. This happened because people in her community only lived two types of lifestyles. Amanda is related to Bow-Wow, Hester, and Lester. Bow-Wow is the Beale's family pet. Hester and Lester are Amanda's younger brother and sister. At first Amanda did not like Mars Bars. This was because of the way he used to treat others, and once he attempted to tear Amanda's book. The West End had a conflict with the East End over silly problems. Amanda lives her life like a breeze in the wind. Life in the Beale house will never be the same after Maniac or Jeffrey, in this case, lived with them.
2007-03-19 14:54:47 · answer #1 · answered by Mathlady 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2015-08-14 19:38:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
amanda beale is a young girl who loves to read books and and assuming from the book, she never gets late at school. she is kind because she lent the book to maniac but she doubted it. when she found out that maniac was an orphan her and her family took him in as one pf their own even though he was white. that's call being generous and kind.
2016-08-20 13:12:19 · answer #3 · answered by Naseeb 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The poor girl I think she has just completely lost her way. She needs to get out of the public eye and take away all the excesses.
2016-03-17 08:03:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
amanda
2015-04-28 12:34:23 · answer #5 · answered by Faruq 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋