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    Freak the MIghty is a book by Rodman Philbrick. It is a book about friendship between two guys. Freak the Mighty and The Mighty have many differences and alikes like when they became Freak the MIghty, when they stopped a girl from getting robbed, and where Kevin dies. One difference between the two is when they became Freak the Mighty. In the book this happens at the pond. The cops asked who they were and Kevin said we are Freak the Mighty. In the movie it happened at the museum. Also in the

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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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    There are a lot of differences and similarities between Freak the Mighty book and movie. When Max storms off, Freak follows him and and talks about the surgery. Freak starts talking about this place where he is going to get bionic body and Max believes him. Towards the end of the book and after freak dies he runs to the factory and he doesn't break the glass to try to get in instead he opens the door and walks around before crying and then he realizes that Freak was lying to him and finds out that

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    The book, Freak the Mighty, has many similarities and differences from the movie based on it. Between the movie and the book, Max still learns valuable lessons from Kevin in the end and Loretta helps Max. At the end of the book and the movie, after Kevin died, Max became a more open and creative person than before he knew Kevin. Kevin taught him how to become the best person he can be. Loretta helped Max escape from Kenny’s restraints and wake him up to reality after Kevin died in both the movie

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    In The Book, Freak The Mighty Rodman Philbrick discusses how friendship is a big part of this book, and how Freak and Max's friendship have created and inseparable strong connection, and have made them stronger. This story is also a very touching, and it really shows how they have an amazing friendship. To start of, in life we all protect each other, or at least try to. One of these examples is Freak saves Max from his dad. One quote is “put your hands up villian” and “its sulfuric acid”. Freak

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    Comparison of The Mighty and Freak the Mighty In the book Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick there are two main characters which are Kevin, which goes by Freak, and Maxwell. Between the book and the movie there are a lot of differences. Some of the scenes included are a scene at the mill pond, the ornithopter scene, and Freak’s death scene. In the movie/book while talking about the mill pond scene Kevin and Max start to get chased by Blade and his group. Max grabs Kevin and puts him on

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    Misunderstood. All the people saw Max as this big, terrible, scary, kidnapper. Although Max appears this way, he is the complete opposite. Maxwell is a kind person who cares about Worm enough to want to help her. Maxwell Kane comes about as a misunderstood character in the book Max the Mighty. Maxwell thought he was doing the right thing. From his perspective, he was taking Worm away from all the danger in her life. On the other hand, the people believed he had kidnapped Worm and put her in danger

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    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

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    1). Max thought he was dumb and clumsy. All the time he’d been called as foolish. Stupid. The fact that his body looked to be developing quicker than his mind didn’t help... Max learned how to bear loneliness. At least until Freak came along. Freak was different from others too. He had a tiny body-and a huge brain. Even though they are drastically different, both are essential to each other. Together, Max and Freak were unvanquishable. They were Freak the Mighty. The novel, Freak the Mighty is a

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    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

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