Maxine Alternate Ending

She's scared of me.” This is the reaction of Fair Gwen when she sees Max, if you just see the physical appearance of Max, you would think that he wouldn’t care about what other people think of him. However, once Max thought he knew Fair Gwen was scared of him, it stuck in his mind. This shows that Max might have a tough exterior, but a fragile interior. He cares about what other people think of him, even if they’re somewhat strangers. Max lacks self-confidence and is very timid. The text shows, “I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for a while, arid that's the truth, the whole truth.” Max clearly says that he wasn’t smart until he met Kevin. Therefore, he had self-esteem issues, but when Kevin came along, everything changed. Kevin helped Max become who he is, and because of this the plot unfolds.

In this section, Jeannette Walls starts off, in the present time by telling the readers about her seeing her mom on the street, that she hasn’t seen in a long time. Jeannette uses emotional words like blustering and fretted to show that seeing her mom was an emotional time. Later in the section, she goes way back into her life to when she was three years old and when her family and her was living in the desert. She started off telling a story of when she was on fire. This story was intense, it was really dramatic on her parents part, her dad was screaming at her and the doctor a lot. Then she talked about when they moved to Las Vegas, her family lived in a motel room, which didn’t last long, they had to leave Vegas in a rush, because her dad was cheating in blackjack and the dealer found out. The last story in the section is where her family drove to San Francisco and stayed in another motel. One night her dad was at the bar, across the street. He left Jeannette and her three other siblings in the room. Jeannette got bored so she decided to play with fire and that let to a big disaster resulting in the whole hotel burning down.

Max wants fang to stay because she needs someone to talk to. One example of this is when max said “he was my best friend, my right hand man, the one who always had my back. He'd die to save me. And I would throw myself in front of a train for him without a second's thought.” (59)

She is unable to cope with reality and she escapes back into her fantasy world of old records and glass figurines.

in his comfort zone and is not confident about himself. His self esteem is really low. Overall, Max is a

She let him stroke her silky hair because he loves the feeling of soft things, but became a little too rough. " Lennie's fingers closed on her hair and hung on." "She screamed then and Lennie's other

(Philbrick 128). Before becoming friends with Freak, Max would have never yelled that because he was considered the quiet kid that never talked to anyone. But because of the friendship it gave Max self confidence to yell and stand up to his dad. Another example is when Loretta, a side character in the novel, tried to help Max escape his dad. Loretta was considered to be the “Heroic Biker Babe” after she suffered a neck injury while helping Max escape.

Sleepless nights were Everette’s cup of tea since his parents murder. He obtained three jobs in the course of five years: murdering other people's list of victims, taking care of children in a hospital, and researching on finding who the people were responsible for his parents deaths. The last job, being the one he worked his hardest on. Sure, he worked hard killing for money and healing for children and their parents, but he wanted nothing more than to find and kill the ones who murdered his parents and vowed to find them before he lost his own life. The tall male would search far and wide within ranges, contacting people and connecting to find the murderers. Calling in South Carolina, someone tipped him off, giving him a little information that they did know. They didn’t give much, but it was enough for him to get a lead.

I don’t know why, but somehow the image of the white sands between her toes, the large palm trees hanging overhead, the cool ocean breeze, the whole tropical dream, always manages to make a smile on her face. This paradise, I imagine, must be the complete opposite at home, what with being the middle child of a younger brother, Jonathan, and an older step brother, Chandlier, two cats, two dogs, a bunny, and two tropical animals called sugar gliders. This girl, who I thought I could read like an open book, proved to be very surprising and one of the friendliest people I know.

One day when Max was playing with Oliver, Max’s head started to wobble, and he got very spacey. Oliver quickly tried to ask Max about what was happening, but Max had developed slurred speech in those few minutes that they were together. Therefore, he couldn’t understand what Max was saying. Oliver ran down the hall to get Jason. Jason took one look at Max and called his mother up from the kitchen. When Mrs. Heartfield got to Max’s room she hurried him out of the

As Angelica confidently strolled into Rosario High, Eliza and Peggy, her sisters followed close behind. Angelica had been at the school before, because she'd been taking a bus over to the high school for her advanced math class all throughout eighth grade. Eliza, however, had never been inside the building before and felt incredibly small walking in. Peggy wasn't even supposed to be there. She should've been in eighth grade, but she skipped it and went straight to high school. She was very smart, but no one ever noticed. She was always just Angelica and Eliza's sister. They made their way down wing 1B in search of their lockers. Peggy stopped at her locker, number ninety six, while Angelica and Eliza looked for their own. Angelica finished her search at locker number seventy stuff. Eliza found hers a bit farther down, locker 46. While she began to unpack her books, she saw four boys making their way down the hallway. One was the famous jock, Lafayette. No one knew his real name except teachers, because he insisted that it was to long to use. His friend, another jock who was very smart, however, Hercules Mulligan followed him down the hall. John Laurens, who was decent at sports, but more of a science guy was with them, too. Following them was the mystery man, Alexander Hamilton. He was in their grade, but barely anyone knew anything about him. Eliza figured he was just another jock.

Susan McConnell is the only junior in an english class full of seniors. Among the students, there is David Ruggles, Mark Kinney, Jeff Garrett, and Betsy Cline. David is the president of the senior class, Jeff is the tallest guy on the basketball team, Betsy is the head cheerleader, and Mark is Jeff’s best friend, and very mysterious. All of them aren’t very fond of their teacher, Mr. Griffin. Mark, Jeff, and Betsy hatch a plan to scare Mr. Griffin into going easier on them and giving better grades, so they don’t fail his class. They get Dave in, and Dave convinces Sue to join, to be the decoy. Their plan doesn’t go as aimed and Mr. Griffin is found dead by Sue and Dave. Mark comes up with a scheme to hide the body in the mountains and get rid of the car, while Sue thinks they should tell someone. Mark gets her to calm down and convinces her to stay quiet.

When she exited the classroom, all eyes were on her. Since she goes to a small school of about three-hundred students, word gets around pretty quickly. Every girl was looking at each other, then staring at her, and back again. Even the emo kids were looking at her weirdly.

She came up to these girls that looked nice but they weren't they said “ you're too pretty to hang with us you might be mean to us later one” and they walked away. A week has passed and she decided to join the dance club. There where the 2 girls named Ally and Jessie they seemed really nice and pretty she came up to them hoping they won’t say the same thing luckily they didn't but there were sorta mean to other people that which they didn't even do anything to them . Then one day in art class the teacher said to partner up with 2 other people and Ally and Jessie weren't in her art class to she had to find other people she came up to these 2 girls name Jacy and Nikki they seemed nice and they were so she partnered with them and started hanging out with them Ally and Jessie got jealous that Talia was hanging out with them. Then one day Ally and Jessie didn't talk to Talia they dont even say hi like they didn't know her and they got mad Talia got mad at them so she didn't hang out with them.

So that their parents wouldn’t find out, they created a clandestine “I hate parents” club.