In Freak The Mighty by Rodman Philbrick‚ Maxwell’s mind is his biggest enemy. Maxwell lacks confidence in himself‚ is dependent on others and traumatized by his past. One way Maxwell’s mind is his biggest enemy is that he lacks confidence in himself. “Getting up in the class and saying stuff is not something I do.” All of the schools he has gone through‚ he has been placed in LD classes‚ at his house he is treated as a criminal just because of his infamous father‚ and socially he is an outcast.
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The stories Freak the Mighty and Stargirl may seem like very different stories. One is a story about two boys becoming best friends and the other book is about two teens dating. But‚ if we look a little closer we can see that they are actually very similar. They share the common theme‚ “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.” We see this theme all throughout the book Stargirl‚ when everyone doubts and judges the protagonist‚ Stargirl‚ for being very different. On the outside‚ she is a very outgoing
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William and him were just messing around and it was all a misunderstanding. I judged Tristan because of his look and how he acted without knowing him‚ now we are good friends and play Clash Of Clans together. This anecdote relates to the story Freak the Mighty By Rodman Philbrick because I judged Tristan because of the way he looks‚ just as everybody did to Max at the beginning of the story but in the end they find out how they perceived him wasn’t how Max really is.
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Have you ever felt like the underdog? Have you been treated like you were less than a person? Well take a lesson or two from Freak the Mighty. Our main characters‚ Max and Kevin‚ are a dynamic duo. We have Max‚ the Mighty‚ who is considered to be the stupid and strong youth that is going to turn out to be...eek‚ eek...his father‚ Killer Kenny Kane. We also have Kevin‚ Freak‚ the uber smart‚ crippled kids that moves in next door to Max at the beginning of their eighth grade year of school. Due to
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Freak the Mighty is a story of two characters that learn that being different is a good thing to be. In the book‚ both characters find out if they learn how to work with each other that make adventures. The book‚ Freak the Mighty is by Rodman Philbrick. In this book‚ it tells a story about Max who has special needs and Kevin who has a medical disease that make him unable to walk right. Max and Kevin learn the benefits of each other’s mind. As in the book‚ Max learns with Kevin’s help that he can
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Though he has friends‚a family‚ and life he enjoys he still asks to be normal. the story “Freak the mighty” there’s a boy called freak. He has a physical disability that makes him unable to grow and he walks with a leg brace and crutches. Hes barely three feet tall and almost in 8th grade. Though this never seem to bother him much‚ his nicknames is freak after all. Though in the story it is revealed that freak wants to change. To
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me later on in life. Out of all the important things I have learned this year‚ there were three that have impacted my school year the most: Reading the book Freak the Mighty‚ learning the importance friendship‚ and what I am going to do with my life after high school. In the beginning of the year we read a great book called Freak the Mighty. As we read the book our teacher taught us how to annotate and take notes on what we thought was important. Our teacher explained to us through a study strategies
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Freak the Mighty My opinion that this book was a little sad because Kevin (also known as Freak) had a disease that made him stop growing at three feet so he had to wear metal leg braces and crutches. Also in the beginning Max was a bully because in the beginning of the story Max was called Kicker because whoever touched him Max will hurt that person by punching and kicking him/her. The book also talks a lot about friendship and trust because when Freak and Max first saw each it was only for one
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In the book Freak the Mighty‚ it was written by Rodman Philbrick. In the movie The Mighty‚ it was directed by Peter Chelsom. They both have the same characters with the same problem‚ same story plot‚ same everything. In the book it said how they met in the summer when Freak just moved in and he was having troubles with getting his robot bird‚ so Max helped him. In the movie they officially met during school time when Freak ended up being his tutor. Some of the most important similarities is that
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In the new book that my class and I have been reading‚ Freak the Mighty‚ by Rodman Philbrick‚ the relationship between two friends is very strong. Max and Freak‚ are the main characters in the story and they are the best of friends maybe because they know how to help each other and have a great time together. Freak moves into the house next to Max’s ‚ and Max does not know how to feel about Freak at first. Then they talk more and they grew into friends very quickly. They solve mysteries‚ go in “quests”
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