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    Freak the Mighty The story Freak the Mighty by: Rodman philbrick shows a friendship between two boys that change completely as the story develops. The two characters change as they know each other better. One main character is Maxwell Kane. Max lives with his grandparents, his mom died, and his dad is in jail. Before he met Kevin, the person that changed his life, he thought he was dumb, and had no friends. In fact,Max is an important character in the book Freak the Mighty, because his caring heart

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    Comparison of Freak the Mighty and The Mighty Freak the Mighty is the story of two boys and their special friendship and adventures. The book and the movie are very different from each other. There are major differences in the movie and the book such as how freak dies, how freak and maxwell become friends, and the research facility. In the movie The Mighty Maxwell and Freak become friends a different way than in the movie. In the movie freak tutors max with reading and max gets good at reading

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    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

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    book Freak the Mighty and the movie The Mighty there are many differences and similarities.A big difference between the book and the movie is how Freak and max meet. A similarity is how Freak always rides on Max’s shoulders, no matter where they are. In the movie, the director, Peter Chelsom, has Max and Freak meet when Max needs a tutor and Freak can do the job. This is how Max and Freak’s friendship starts, however in the book it happens differently. In the book, Freak the Mighty, the author, Rodman

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    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

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    quote repeated throughout the novel: Freak the Mighty for a reason. Freak the Mighty is a bittersweet, heartwarming, and melancholy story about two boys who find friendship by helping each other to accept their differences. Kevin Avery, also known as “Freak”, is a child suffering from Morquio syndrome; he becomes friends with a boy named Maxwell Kane, who possesses a learning disability, and is “bursting out of his shoes”,Accordingly, we know that Max is extremely tall, and big for his age. Freak

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    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 Max he’ll

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    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

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    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

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    Although the movie The Mighty is based on the book Freak the Mighty, there are both similarities and differences between the two. First, the book and movie have the same way that Max gets kidnapped and freed after his father, Kenny Kane gets released early from prison. While Max is asleep in the “down under”, Max’s father sneaks into his room to capture Max, and then Kenny tries to convince Max that he didn’t kill his mother, but Max knows that that isn’t true. After being tied up and interrogated

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