Freak The Mighty Quotes

Killer Kane's actions contradict his description of himself as a loving person in many ways.

For this summer, I decided to read The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. The book took place during Civil War times and went into good detail on what happened during the battles at Gettysburg. The first quote that I found interesting was from the Union Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. “The fact of slavery upon this incredibly beautiful new clean earth was appalling, but more even than that was the horror of old Europe, the curse of nobility, which the South was transplanting to new soil (Shaara 27).” This quote was significant because it described the feelings of the average Union soldier towards slavery.

In the novel The Octopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris, a major dispute in the 1900s took place between major railroad owners and farmers that shared the land the railroads would run through. For the ranchers, their way of life would be transformed by the railroad expansion as the major railroad companies had a sort of monopoly in the rail system that gave them legality over the land. Expansion really transformed the American way of life while illustrating to the reader how the ‘American Dream’ was trying to be reached in this particular scenario. As in most American literature novels, there is a protagonist and an antagonist in Norris’ work. The protagonists being the farmers while the antagonists is seen as the railroad ‘big

Darrell Mercer was forced to leave his home in Philadelphia to move all the way to California to live with his uncle against his will. He will have to go to a new school, to make new friends, and to have new teachers. Darrell will have to watch out for Tyray and Rodney the bullies of the school. It will be a hard time in his Junior years.

In the novel The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien often brings up Jimmy cross’s love for Martha and how he struggles expressing they way feel feels about her. “Right then he thought he should’ve done something brave”(O’Brian 5) Cross felt much regret because he did not act on his feelings. He did not have the courage to express his love they way he wanted to towards Martha. Jimmy Cross, who had been in love with Martha for quite sometime even though she didn't feel the same way tried to play it off as if he had gotten over her.

In the beginning Max had low self-esteem because people would bully him. They would sing him a song that made him feel bad. Max was scared because he saw his dad killed his mother. Max matured because everything that happened, from his dad kidnaping him to Freak dying. Max learned that he did not need Freak to be smart. Max change because Freak helped him to realize that he did not need Freak to be smart. Freak helped Max because max was shallow but Freak help him step out of the shade. Freak help max to be comfortable with himself.

Tough Scouts “Scouts Honor” by Avi is a realistic fiction about three boy scouts named Max, Horse, and the narrator. All of these boy scouts struggle with being tough. In the beginning, the narrator decides that he doesn't want to be the same Boy Scout rank anymore. To rank up he needs to go camping which he agrees to and his friends Horse and Max are boy scouts that also want to rank up so they join to. Soon, they leave all with deep fear of the trip because they all struggle with being tough but won't admit they do struggle with being tough.

In Pearl S. Buck’s novel, The Good Earth, the protagonist, Wang Lung, starts out as a very poor farmer in China. He marries a slave named O-lan and starts a family with her. Famine soon strikes the town and there is no food to be found anywhere. Wang Lung moves his family South in hopes of finding a job there. Eventually, a group of poor people raid the homes of the rich. Wang Lung and O-lan both join in, getting away with enough gold and valuables to get back to their land in the North. Wang Lung uses this stolen money to buy more land and hire laborers. He quickly becomes one of the richest men in his town. Wang Lung, however, does not know that with great wealth comes great responsibility. His wealth corrupts him and his moral judgements become blurred. Wang

Knowledge plays an incredibly large part of Mary Shelly’s novel, Frankenstein. I think that Victor’s obsessive and unhealthy search for knowledge is the true cause of his suffering. Not only does he neglect his friends and family while working to create the monster he puts his own health in danger. “I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health.” In this quote we see that Victor stops at nothing to find if he would be successful with his creation. Victor has made this project such a main priority that once it is completed and the creature comes to life he does not know what to do. Since Victor has met his goals and done what he said he wanted to do he does not want to deal with the being he just created so this becomes a problem for him. We see that Victor was very troubled by this whole experience when he says, “You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.”

At first, Max didn’t have any friends; he was just felt alone and had nothing to do. But then, Kevin comes along and everything changes. Max and Kevin start talking and soon they become “Freak the mighty.” Kevin is Max’s brain and Max is Kevin’s legs. As the story continues, Max and Kevin became closer and closer. The two also start going on “quests” to help others while pretending they are knights. Near the end of the story,

Heinous...inhuman...primitive- these words define the symbol of the beast in the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding. An example would be, when Simon attempts to report that the beast isn’t real, the other boys envision Simon as a beast, soon leading them to devour him alive. In the novel the beast was represented as the inner savagery of humans and authentic human nature under no control as the beast developed and became larger, resulting in horrid actions performed by the boys.

The character maxwell kane is first described as “Im not big,”i say.”thin way your like two feet taller than me.” In fact,when we first see him, “I invented games like kick-boxing and kick-face and kick-teachers and kick-the-other-little-day-care-critters” (page 22). “Called kicker for a time-this was day care,the year gram and grim took me over-and i had a thing about booting anyone who dares to touch me” (page 1).Then when max meets kevin (freak) and max is caring about kevin.max states “and so i just sort of reach down without thinking and i pick up freak and set him on my shoulders.” this shows

Hammond states this to Dr. Wu in the chapter, Bungalow. In this quote Hammond refuses to face the reality of how unsafe his park is, even though countless amount of evidence is set in front him. Not to mention he also refuses to believe that the dinosaurs have found a way to breed despite of the scientists’ precautions. Between his stubbornness and old age we observe that Hammond is actually out of his mind. Later on, after the island is in pieces and most of the staff is dead, Hammond still believes that he still/should build another Jurassic Park. Though in the beginning the novel vilified Nerdy, Hammond emerges as the real villain of the story with his abuse of the scientific power. This quote helps you understand who the real protagonist and real antagonist are. Nerdy was just a pod in the author’s game, to figure whose fault is. (Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. Chapter Bungalow)

In the story, “Abuelita,” she makes remarks about her neighbor without even getting to know her. She judges someone, because they can’t speak Spanish, without even getting to know her, but soon realizes she has a really kind, caring nature. That has happened to many people before, not just Abuelita, like me and perhaps once even you! Many people, including me have a instinct to not just become friends with the first people they see. In my school, I have lots of friends I can count on and trust in, but let’s zoom back to 5 years ago, when I was a short little “new” girl who didn’t know a single person. I was the shortest in my class and was super lonely. I was even crying and throwing a tantrum at my mom, because I didn’t want to go to this school. I had the first day jitters! But, on my ride home on the massive, spacious, clean bus, I sat across from this girl who had two braids and a fluffy sweater, and a girl next to her with one ponytail and a purple backpack.

One that has no mind is being kept from their personal freedoms and desires. If one was to pick if either mind control is worse or physical control I would choose mind control because your mind is who you are, your personality.When one controls their mind they are not allowing their imagination or emotions get the best of them and that is controlling one’s thinking.