Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan Character Analysis in Maniac Magee

Dot and Dan are Maniac’s aunt and uncle. Maniac lives with them for eight years after his parents are killed. Dot and Dan hate each other, but as staunch Catholics, they refuse to get a divorce. As such, they spend Maniac’s childhood refusing to speak to each other, eat meals together, or even share kitchen appliances. Maniac runs away from Dot and Dan when he can no longer stand their silence and hostility.

Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan Quotes in Maniac Magee

The Maniac Magee quotes below are all either spoken by Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan or refer to Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

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Dreams pursued memories, courted and danced and coupled with them and they became one, and the gaunt, beseeching phantoms that called to him had the rag-wrapped feet of Washington's regulars and the faces of his mother and father and Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan and the Beales and Earl Grayson. In that bedeviled army there would be no more recruits. No one else would orphan him.

Related Characters: Jeffrey Lionel “Maniac” Magee, Earl Grayson, Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan

Page Number and Citation: 123

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