Which medium do you think is better, Rodman Philbrick's Freak the Mighty or Peter Chelsom’s film The Mighty? Both in the novel Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick and the film, The Mighty by Peter Chelsom portray the theme of friendship for which people can change people for the better or for the worse towards their future. In the novel, Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick, Max Kane is one of characters in the story that creates a bonding friendship with a small yet sharp-witted kid named Kevin
Freak the Mighty Essay In the novel, Freak the Mighty, author Rodman PhilBrick wrote about a boy(Max) who had a learning disability, hated school, and was a social outcast to the rest of the world. Later in the novel Max met Kevin, a boy who had a physical disability. The two boys instantly became friends and as their friendship grew, they grew both mentally and physically. Both Kevin, who was nicknamed “Freak”, and Max gained a good friend when they met each other. By gaining a good friend, they
but that is just how it is for some people. It is this way for Max, but then Freak comes along. To start, the fictional novel Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick is a heartwarming story that showcases the unfortunate reality for some of us, while still explaining the importance of friendship and love. Rodman Philbrick makes it a point to show that you shouldn't judge people about their up bringing or size. In Freak the Mighty, Max a teenage boy with a troubled past meets Freak, a boy with a disease
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, Kenny Kane
Mohamed Al Shariqi 6-clayton 1-25 16 Max the Mighty Max the Mighty after 5 years he’s in college and Worm in the school. And max was bigger than Worm. All this happened after 5 years. Max gets bullied in college. There is people they wore red blouse. And they are so meane.they want to kill him any way. So if he go any were they trying to kill him because he’s smarter than them.In the next day Max go out and he find them behind the door.And than he go back to the house.Than he get a knife
Genre & Why: The novel is classified as Realistic Fiction because the events of the novel could take place in real life. Text Evidence: On page 5, the author provides a detailed, realistic setting told by the protagonist’s point of view “That summer, let’s see, I’m still living under the basement, my own private down under, in the little room Grim built for me there. Glued up this cheap paneling, right? It sort of buckles away from the concrete cellar walls, a regular ripple effect, but do I complain
Rodman Philbrick's Freak The Mighty is about a tall twelve-year old boy named Maxwell Kane, who is a learning disabled and lives with his grandparents after his father, went to jail. He was always getting bullied at school. He had no friends. Until one day, a boy who had a small body for his age had an ornithopter (an aircraft that flaps its wings) that was stuck in a tree. Maxwell got the ornithopter from the tree and returned it to the little boy. He introduced himself as Kevin but Maxwell thought
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
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
grandmother, Gram. Max thinks of himself as a butthead. People are afraid of him because he looks like his father, Kenneth "Killer" Kane, a convicted murderer. Max sets the stage for the story by reminiscing about his time in daycare, when he had met a boy named Kevin, or Freak, as their classmates called him. Kevin has Morquio syndrome, wears leg braces and uses crutches, and thinks of himself as a robot and is bullied by many bigger kids due to his short height. However, Max likes Kevin and thinks