Max And Filbrick Themes

As a reader, I am rather prone to sympathizing with Max and Freak in each chapter, and as said in earlier responses, Rodman Filbrick has his ways of making me care about Max and Freak as if they were real-life people, and how when something happens, how the characters feel is how I feel. To set me up to be unable to put the book down, or, in other words, be very attached to the story, Rodman Filbrick would need to use a good mixture of relatable and adverse themes. The main themes in the first few chapters, which were friendship and adventure, were universal parts of life that everyone must have went through, at one point or another.
In the beginning, when I can understand the aims and intentions of Max and Freak, I’m hooked on, since I can