Hector Street is the divide between the two racially segregated sides of town. The white people live on one side and the black people live on the other, and no one ever crosses Hector Street to visit the other half. The Cobras, as tough as they think they are, won't even cross that line. Maniac, however, is the only person who is at first unaware, and later, unafraid of the boundary. Maniac realizes that lives on both sides of Hector Street are similar, at times hard, at times loving, and that everyone, no matter what their race, has something to offer. Maniac Magee crosses racial and prejudicial boundaries and eventually gets others to do so as well.
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