Freak The Mighty Poem Analysis

Gigi Singh English 7A
2/22/11 Period 5
Freak the Mighty and “Ability” Extended Response

Believing in one’s self is common, and it thrives throughout the novel, Freak the Mighty, by Rodman Philbrick, and the poem, “Ability,” by Selina E. Matis. There are several lines in the poem, “Ability,” that relate to the novel, Freak the Mighty. For example, one of the lines in the poem was, “Ability is to look at a blank page, and create a poem.” An example from Freak the Mighty that relates to that line is that Max didn’t know how to write, even when Freak gave him the empty book. However, in the end, Max ended up writing a whole book. Another line from the poem was, “For many, ability is never found, but for all, ability