24 thoughts on “Maniac Magee: Divided

  1. Maniac Magee: Divided

    The town of Two Mills is similar to Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan’s home because they’re both divided. The town of Two Mills were divided because of race, so blacks and whites were separated into two areas. Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan’s home was divided because they hated each other and they stopped sharing, so there was two of everything. Two Mills and Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan’s home were similar because they were separated from each other and they lived in different areas. As you can see, Two Mills and Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan’s home are divided.

  2. Divided
    Two Mills is very similar to the home Jeffery had at his aunt’s and uncle’s house. It is very similar because his aunt and uncle have two of everything. In two Mills they have two races. Colored in the East end and White in the West end. In the book Amanda Beale, the first person Jeffery ever met, thought who was this white stranger kid? And what is he doing in the East end, where almost all the kids were black?

  3. Maniac Magee

    In the story Maniac Magee a boy named Jeffrey was temporarily living in the West End. He had meet this girl named Amanda Beale who was nice to Jeffrey. The town of Two Mills and the house of Aunt Dot’s and Uncle Dan’s were in similar a few ways. In both places, he didn’t have a home with his uncle and aunt, because they were all never together. He doesn’t have a home or a house in Two Mills either, since he ran away from his uncle and aunt’s house. Although, there was something or someone in town named Amanda. She had seemed to trust him without even actually getting to know him. That had probably made Jeffery feel a little more at home.

  4. Town of Two Mills: Divided

    In the Town of Two Mills there is east end and the west end and this is similar to Jeffrey’s aunt and uncle because everything is separate and the West End was for whites and the East End was for blacks. This is just like Jeffrey’s aunt and uncle because they have two of everything. And the different races basically have two of everything. They live in separate parts. The East End and the West End.

  5. Maniac Divided
    The town of two mills and aunt dot and uncle Dan’s house are alike because there house has two of everything in there. They have two toasters, two bathrooms, two TVs, two refrigerators, and they had to divide Maniac Magee. Each one has there own one and they divided Magee aunt dot Monday and uncle Dan on Tuesday and so on.

  6. Maniac Magee: Divided
    How is the town Two Mills similar to the home that Jeffrey had with Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan?
    The town, Two mills is similar to the home that Jeffrey had with Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan because, Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan were split apart and Two Mills was also split apart because of segregation.

  7. A Divided World

    In the book Maniac Magee, The town of Two Mills is divided into the West End and the East End. The West End is where Caucasians live, and the East End is where African-Americans live. The protagonist, Jeffrey Lionel Magee, Maniac Magee lives with his Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan. His aunt and uncle were once in love, and are married, but they have fallen out of love, and they hate each other. They won’t get a divorce because of their religion, but they live in two separate worlds, even though they live in the same house. They don’t even use each other’s things. They have two toasters, two fridges, etc. Their house is so similar to Two Mills because for instance, Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan live in their two separate worlds, just like the West End and the East End. Also, the West End and the East End rarely or never communicate, just like Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan. Finally, Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan live as far away as possible, just like the East End and the West End. In conclusion, Uncle Dan and Aunt Dot’s house is remarkably similar to the West End and the East End.

  8. A Divided family

    In the book Maniac Magee, The town of Two Mills Was divided by the West End and East End. The West End is where Whites live and the East End is where blacks live. The main Character Jeffrey, Lived with his unhappy and uptight Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan who rather have two of everything instead of One of everything. Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan once loved each other, and are married but they have fallen out of love, and they hate each other. They won’t get a divorce because they are catholic, but they live in two separate worlds, even though they live in the same house. They don’t ever use the same things. They have two toasters, two fridges, and many more. There house is like Two Mills because for instance, They live different. Finally, Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan live as far away as possible.

  9. Maniac Magee
    The town Two Mills and Jefferys aunts and uncles’ are pretty much the same. They’re both divided and they both hate each other.
    They both divided themselves. Jeffery’s aunt and uncle divided Jeffery between them. Two Mills divided the East end and the West end by using Hector Street as a border.
    They both hate each other. The whites hated the blacks, just like the aunt hates the uncle.
    In conclusion, the aunt is like the east and the uncle is like the west. Therefore the aunt and uncle is alike to the town Two Mills.

  10. The town of Two Mills and the home that Jeffrey had with Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan is similar because they are both separated. At the house that Jeffrey lived in with Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan they split everything into two. In the town of Two mills they are split up in black and white people. The town of Two Mills and Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan’s house are similar because they are both divided.

  11. Maniac Magee

    The two Mills and the Jeffrey’s aunt and uncle are the same because the aunt and uncle hate each other.
    They are the same because his aunt and uncle divide everything they have and the mills divide the east the and the west end. The east end is all black and the west end is all whites. The aunt and the uncle hated each other because the aunt was from the east end the uncle was from the west end.

  12. Maniac Magee: Divided

    The town of Two Mills is similar to the home that he lived in with his Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan, because in his aunt and uncle’s house there was two of everything. For instance there are two toasters, two beds, two refrigerators, etc. His aunt and uncle wish there was two of Jeffery, but that can not happen because he is a human. There is a west side and an east side in town, where the races are divided.

  13. Maniac Magee: Divided

    I believe that the town of Two Mills is similar to the home Jeffry lived in with Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan because of the name of the town itself. (Two Mills). Also everything in there house was doubled. Two toasters, two fridges, and even two beds for each other

  14. Divided

    The town of Two Mills is similar to Maniac Magee’s aunt and uncle’s house because they are both divided. The town of Two Mills is divided by the color of their skin. The West End is for the whites and the east is for the colored people. His aunt and uncle’s house is divided because of an argument so they have two of every item in the house. Everything is divided between them two. As you can see they are both divided in a certain way which makes them similar.

  15. Maniac Magee Divided

    Maniac was divided into his uncle and his aunt. Some days with one or the other they split him up, but one day he got tired of having to divide in two. So one day his aunt wanted to take him somewhere but his uncle did to so he ran away. His uncle and aunt hated each other. All in all his aunt and uncle both wanted him.

  16. Divided

    Maniac magee was divided between his aunt and uncle. He was divided because his aunt and uncle always fought so they had their own of everything so if you go to their house there is to of everything. So he was divided because he couldn’t eat with both of his aunt and uncle because they hated each other so he had to have dinner with his aunt one night and his uncle the other. All in all he was divided because his aunt and uncle hated each other.

  17. Maniac Magee Divided
    The aunt and uncle’s house is divided into two like the town two mills. The town is divided by the west side and the east. In the house they have two toasters, two bathrooms, two phones, two refrigerators, and two of everything. They also wanted to split Maniac up. One day the aunt has him and another day his uncle has him and they switch.

  18. Divided

    The town of Mill is a divided color of skin. Uncle Dan and Auntie Dot is separated because they don’t like each other. Jeffrey ran away from his home because Uncle Dan and Aunt Dot were always fighting. Their house is divided because of how they are always arguing. Everything is divided between them two.

  19. Divided

    The town of two mills is the similar as Jeffery lived with Aunt Dot and uncle Dan is that they were both separated from each other. In Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan’s house was separated from each other and it’s just like Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan. The town was separated from blacks and whites which is the East end and West end. In the east end it was all the blacks that lived there and all the whites live in the West end of town.

  20. Maniac Magee
    The Two Mills and Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan are similar becauses they they both are spilted everything. The Whites and Blacks splitted into different sides. The whites were in the East and the blacks were in the West. With Grandpa Dan and Aunt Dot everything in there house is splitted the bathrooms, TV, refrigerators, and toasters. All in all Jeffery had been living in a divided world.

  21. By Jarsen
    Friday, April 15,2016
    Writing
    Divided
    The Two Mills are related to Jeffrey’s aunt Dot and uncle Dan because the west and the east end’s hate each other. Just like aunt Dot and uncle Dan hate each other. The reason why the two mills hated each other because the west side was where the white people lived, the east was where the black people lived and the both sides don’t get along that well. The east and the west end has never seen anyone from both sides cross come to the opposite side. Just like Jeffrey’s aunt and uncle never shared anything with each other. All in all this is how the Two Mills are related to aunt Dot and uncle Dan.

  22. Maniac Magee Divided
    Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan hated each other, but because they were strict catholics, they wouldn’t get a divorced. They stopped sharing these things they had two refrigerators, two bathrooms, two toasters and they wouldn’t see each other any more it was like if they had there own house. On Monday Maniac had to eat with Aunt Don and on tuesday Maniac had to eat with Uncle Dan and so on.

  23. Maniac Magee

    In the story “Maniac Magee” the town Two Mills is where Jeffrey is but he used to live with his Aunt Dot and his Uncle Dan. Jeffrey does not want to live with his Aunt and Uncle because they have two bathrooms, two TVs, two refrigerators, and two toasters. But that’s not all Jeffrey’s Aunt and Uncle always are arguing but they don’t get a diverse. Jeffrey ran away from his Aunt and Uncle because he didn’t like that they have two of everything, that they argue all the time, and they both are greedy. Jeffrey likes it much better in Two Mills because he doesn’t have to hear arguing all the time.

    • Angel, reread the prompt. Make sure you are finding the similarities between the divided home Maniac came from, and the divided town he ended up in. Also, make sure you have a topic sentence that tells how the two are alike.

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