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What are some of the things that change in the Beale house while maniac is living there?

What are some of the things that change in the Beale house while maniac is living there?

Mrs. Beale got a break from cleaning the house for a change after Maniac’s arrival. Not only were Hester and Lester better behaved, but Maniac also did chores around the house without being asked.

What are 3 effects maniac had on the Beale household?

Amanda loses her bedroom, Hester and Lester are better behaved, and Maniac helps with the chores. Maniac becomes a part of the Beale family. He reads to Hester and Lester, who love having an older boy in the house. Maniac is a role model.

What happens when Mr Beale offers maniac a ride home?

Beale offers Maniac a ride home, and when Maniac declares that they’ve made it in front of a house a couple blocks away from the Beales’ and still in the East End, Mr. Beale knows something is up. He calls Maniac’s bluff, and before you know it there’s one more resident at 728 Sycamore.

How does maniac end up staying with the Beale family?

How did Maniac end up staying with the Beale family? Mr. Beale offered to drive him home.

Why does maniac feel he has to leave the Beale family?

Ch. 17- Maniac wanted to leave the Beales’ house because he felt that the things that were being done or said by East Enders to get him to leave were causing the Beales to be hurt.

What race is Amanda Beale?

black girl
Amanda was a friendly young black girl from the East End, a black community in Two Mills. She lived with her parents and her little brother and sister.

Where did Thomas J Beale get his treasure from?

The treasure was said to have been obtained by an American named Thomas J. Beale in the early 1800s, from a mine to the north of Nuevo México (New Mexico), at that time in the Spanish province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México (an area that today would most likely be part of Colorado).

How much is the cover of the Beale Papers worth?

Cover of The Beale Papers. The Beale ciphers (or Beale Papers) are a set of three ciphertexts, one of which allegedly states the location of a buried treasure of gold, silver and jewels estimated to be worth over US$43 million as of January 2018.

Who was the friend who made the Beale Papers public?

Unable to solve the other two ciphertexts, the friend ultimately made the letters and ciphertexts public in a pamphlet entitled The Beale Papers, which was published by yet another friend, James B. Ward, in 1885. Ward is thus not “the friend”.

Who was the innkeeper who gave the Beale ciphers to?

Beale entrusted a box containing the encrypted messages to a local innkeeper named Robert Morriss and then disappeared, never to be seen again. According to the story, the innkeeper opened the box 23 years later, and then decades after that gave the three encrypted ciphertexts to a friend before he died.