Friendship In Freak The Mighty

Many characters in, “Of Mice and Men”, show friendship. George and Lennie show the most examples of having a great friendship. George and Lennie both take each care of one another and care about each other. They both support each other in making the dream of living off the fatta’ the land, come true. Doing these things prove that they have a strong friendship.

Max the Mighty is a fictional book written by Rodman Philbrick. Philbrick wrote the book in 1998. Also in 1998, Philbrick wrote Freak the Mighty. “Freak The Mighty has become a standard reading selection in thousands of classrooms worldwide, and now has nearly three million copies in print” (RodmanPhilbrick.com, n. d.). Max who is now on his own since his best friend died met someone named worm after rescuing her from nearly getting beat by her stepfather, and is now in search of her real dad.

In the novel Freak The Mighty by Rodman Philbrick Max and Freak, two very different people, become friends over the course of the book solving many problems a long the way. Max and Kevin are both very similar but also quite different. They have similar problems in there life's but handle them differently. Such as there family problems and disabilities.

Acceptance is when people truly see you for who you are, not just what to look like, or what you talk like. In the book Freak the Mighty, Freak is shown as ‘robot boy’, or being ‘crippled.’ However, our main character, Max, doesn’t think of him this way. He sees him as Kevin, the smart boy who lives across the street. This is just one of the many examples of acceptance in the book. I think that Freak the Mighty is a story of acceptance, and here's why:

Throughout the novel, Freak the Mighty, author Rodman Philbrick brings the two main characters, Max and Kevin nicknamed “Freak”, together through friendship between two completely different people. The two friends friendship made both Kevin and Max stronger in their own ways; whether it be Max and his self confidence or Kevin with his size. The friendship they had changed both the main characters and others around them for the better in the end. Friendship also taught them how to treat one another whether it be in the case of Max and his dad, Killer Kane, or Freak the Mighty and Loretta, a side character in the novel. Max and Kevin’s friendship made both of them stronger and taught them and everyone around new and important lessons.

In chapter five, Gwen invited Max for dinner, but if she had not, I don’t think Freak and Max would have become good friends. Before they were close friends, Freak came over to Max’s house, but when his mother saw Max, she grabbed Freak and ran home, as Max looked like his father who was a criminal. When he goes to Gwen’s “apology dinner” on page twenty-five, Gwen sees that he is a well-behaved kid and kind to Freak. If she had not realized who he truly was at the dinner, she probably would not have approved of the friendship, and the two would not be as close as they are now.

“Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who walked into your life, said ‘I am here for you,’ and proved it.” —Anonymous. The book Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick is a terrific book about friendship. A few of the scenes where this is shown are when Max and Freak meet and become Freak the Mighty; when Kevin teaches Max how to read, and when Kevin uses a squirt gun to save Max. Rodman Philbrick suggests that one great friend can transform a person’s life.

Max is represented as an adventurous but monstrous 6 to 8 year old child with destructive behaviour. He is wearing a wolf suit as a disguise; it symbolizes a sense of development and privacy. Max's behaviour is represented in the monster picture he drew. It suggests the adventure he is about to enter is not something that is new. He could have been thinking of a fantasy world, far away from the reality of his anger at his mother, and that he has a history of destructive behaviour. Max's poor behaviour and characteristics are influenced by his mother's parenting skills and techniques. In a time of great development and growth in this phase of his childhood, Max's social development characteristics included

Throughout the novel Freak the Mighty author Rodman Philbrick creates a compelling story featuring the main characters, Maxwell “Max” Kane and Kevin Dillon, better known as Freak, who go through a journey testing their friendship and loyalty to each other against the forces of evil in life. Max has not had it easy, with his mother being murdered by his father Kenny “Killer” Kane, and he has “never had a brain” (Philbrick 1). These actions and thoughts have left him with no friends and immense grief. Freak has also had a fairly lonely life, being two feet tall with extraordinary intelligence leaving him an outcast. Even into adulthood, people like to isolate others due to appearance or behavior. Loretta Lee, a woman the boys meet on a quest and also an old friend of Kenny Kane, is a perfect example, as she is judged by her looks and the way she can act. Despite their looks or behavior, all of these characters have the best intentions and enormous hearts, and are living a quality life, proving that just because someone is different, does not mean they are not of the same worth as everyone else.

A quote you’ve probably heard is never judge a book by its cover. Well in the book Freak The Mighty that’s exactly what happens. It’s kind of like the movie superman and lots of other superhero movies they have a secret identity and everyone else thinks they are just another normal person. Well in Freak and Max’s case they aren’t so secret about their new identity Freak the mighty.

Rick Riordan’s second book in the Percy jackson series, “The Sea of Monsters”. It is a book that takes place mostly in the real world but with some magical environments. In this series magical stuff happens and, like the name suggests, one of the magical settings is the Sea of Monsters. The main theme I am focusing on in this essay is friendship, it actually is a theme in all of this series.

Have you ever had those friends that you can tell anything to? You trust them with everything, and they trust you back just as much . You consider them your person: The person you have to tell everything to first, otherwise, it won’t mean anything to you. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury is a great example of friendship and how important it is to have people that love you and care for you in your life. In the story, Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade find a weird, sketchy carnival. After Will and Jim find out to much about the carnival, Mr. Dark, the carnival’s owner, needs to get rid of them so they don’t give away his secrets. After Will’s father, Charles Halloway, believes everything the boys say about the carnival, Charles

Have you ever had an old person as a very close friend? These two matured kids do and they made a story about him. This essay is going to show you friendships of the main people and this jerk Norton.

How does friendship give people hope to survive during the Great Depression? Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a powerful story about two men traveling together working hard at the ranch hoping they will one day achieve their dream to own a land. George Milton is one of the main characters that works hard to fulfill the dream of owning a land. Lennie Small is George’s best friend and companion that travel with George, who is struggling to control his own strength. Candy is an old swamper who cleans the bunkhouses on the ranch living with his old dog, but they are considered less valuable and worthless because of their age and disability on the ranch. Crooks is a black stable buck who is isolated from the others

Aldous Huxley exceptionally brings forth to readers the nature of friendship; this is viewed through the relationships of the characters introduced in his novel “Brave New World”. The relationships share commonalities beyond the general surface. Each character partakes a role of establishing a lack of emotional attachment and empathy towards the other in the friendship. There is also the subtle reoccurrence of character’s inducing comfort in others who share unorthodox values of the society. The reinforcement of the nature of these relationships alludes to through the social conformity between Lenina, Henry, Bernard, John, and Linda.