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    This book Freak The Mighty reminds me of another book Bridge to Terabithia Because it has a don't judge a book by its cover thing to one character. That Character is Leslie she is a new kid how meets Jessie in a race she was the only girl in that race and beat all of the boys so he thought she was a person who brags all day however he meets her and she is very creative and they go on many adventures. That's How i thought it connected to Freak the Mighty. Freak aka kevin is first described as cripple

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    Who does see the best in you? Everybody has someone different in their life who sees the best in them. In most cases it is people parents who sees the best in them. But that isn’t always the case, like in Freak the Mighty it’s not his parents taking care of him anymore. In Freak the Mighty, Maxwell doesn’t have an ordinary life. His parents aren’t the ones that see the best in him, his grandparents see the best in him. Maybe his mom would see the best in him, but his mom is not alive. And their

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    Mrs. Belcher 5th 10 November 2017 Analysis of Freak the Mighty There are many differences between the book and the movie. The author of the book is Rodman Philbrick. The film had Kieran Culkin, and Elden Henson has the stars of the movie. The movie producer was Miramax. The book and the movie both show the friendship between Kevin and Maxwell. Freak the Mighty and The Mighty had two different stories on how Maxwell and Kevin met. In Freak the Mighty Maxwell helped Kevin get the ornithopter out

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    Differences of Freak the Might and The Mighty Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick, and The Mighty, a really good book, and very adventures book that makes you feel like you are actually in the book,. There is a bunch of differences compared to the movie and book. Take for example Freak’s death, when Freak and Max get the purse from the drain, and Freak rescuing Max from Killer Kane trying to kill him. Freaks death was a really a main part of the story, and the movie. In the book Freak is in a hospital

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    novel, Freak the Mighty, and the movie, The Mighty, have many things in common, but also have several differences. The first similarity is that in both the text and movie, Max first puts Freak on his shoulders at the fireworks. He does this because Freak complains that he can’t see anything, so Max picks him up without thinking and places his on his shoulders. As a result, Max carries Freak around on his shoulders everywhere. Another common scene between both the novel and the film is when Freak tells

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    Catie Giffen 3rd draft E.L.A 7.1 11/6/14 Freak the Mighty Leo Buscaglia says "A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." In the book Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick, Max is the main character who has a single friend, Kevin. Kevin is the other main character and Max is his whole world. This is a story, about an unlikely friendship between two boys who are outcasts. Their friendship begins when Kevin first

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    Freak the Mighty is a very unique story. The book and the movie are both enjoyable. It is easy just to find similarities between the book and the movie. The similarities between the book and movie are very intriguing. Freak the Mighty the book and The Mighty the movie have many similarities. Also some of the similarities are that they play with the ornithopter in both the movie and the book, Freak and Max became friends, and Freak always sat on Max's shoulders. Those are some of the

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    “Freak the Mighty” After reading the book, and watching the movie, I really enjoyed both. Both, the book and the movie, included the scene in which Kevin and Max returned the purse to Loretta Lee. Returning the purse proved that Max was not like his dad, he had the heart of his mother. Another similarity was that when Max came home in the police car after saving Freak, Grim gave Max a cup of coffee because he believed that he was becoming an adult. The final similarity was the way that Max dealt

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    Freak the mighty is a story about two young boys who both have a hard time going through life. Freak is crippled and short, and Max is tall and retarded. When they become friends, Freak rides on top of Max’s shoulders and together they are freak the mighty whom go on quests together. This book really shows how you should not judge someone by how they look, which is like the moral of the story. The character of Freak/kevin is first described as a, “crippled kid like humanoid.”pg.10 If we were to

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    “I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for a while...,” are the words of Max, one of the main character’s perspective on Kevin, “Freak”, and Max’s friendship. Throughout the novel Freak the Mighty, author Rodman Philbrick creates a developing friendship for the two main characters, Max and Kevin, of whether or not the two of them can work together in life. Throughout the story, Freak and Max become like brothers in how they act and how much time they spend together. Then

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