“When you are down in life, your friends get to know who you are. When you're up in life you get to know who your friends are.” -Anonymous. From the novel “Freak the Mighty”, the narrator informs us that Max and Kevin demonstrate a strong friendship. All in all, they were there for each other in the good times and the bad. So in conclusion, good friendship includes teamwork, trust, and having adventures.
Why does trust help build an enduring friendship? Coming from “Freak the Mighty” Kevin a.k.a “Freak” has a rare disease that makes it so that his insides grow faster than his body. That disability makes it hard for Kevin to move around. So Max a.k.a “The Mighty” helps him out by carrying him on his shoulders. This makes it easier for Kevin to travel
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around quicker. Max carries Kevin, and he trusts Max to carry him correctly and not drop him.
Also, Max is a slow learner and not the brightest. However, Kevin is almost like a “mini-einstein” and is extremely intelligent. So he directs Max to where he wants to go by pointing his tiny feet in a certain direction. A second way they show trust, is with Kevin’s secret. Kevin has a secret surgery for getting a new and improved bionic body. He tells Max and only Max. Kevin also trusts him to not tell anyone about it, like it was top secret. So far, Max is the only one who knows about it. Finally, at the end of the story, Kevin is on his deathbed and he asks Max to write their story. Kevin trusts that Max will finish the story about their adventures and their time as friends together. Trust helps builds friendships and bonds.
There are many people that believe that working together can build a strong friendship. Kevin and Max go back to school. There, Max is mistaken for a giant, unintelligent, young boy until Freak says that Max knows the answers. Just that he is too shy to say them in front of the class. So, the teacher had him write down the answers to the problems and show them to her after class. She sees that Max is just as smart as everyone else, so then she lets Max move
up to Kevin’s more advanced class. Then, working together, Kevin, being incredibly smart, teaches Max how to write properly in only a way that Max could understand. Next, to teach Max even further, he entrusts Max with a special dictionary that Kevin wrote himself. It’s full of interesting words and definitions and it helps Max to expand his vocabulary. Another way they work together, is When they stand up for each other whenever they need it. Afterwards, Max and Kevin were eating lunch. Kevin asked for more chop suey and started choking. Max was the first one to notice Kevin was in trouble, so he called the nurse and sent to the hospital. Luckily, Kevin was fine afterwards and came back to school again. Soon, Max gets a call from the office. Kevin assures him that nothing is wrong and that he’ll be fine. He goes down and the principal informs him, that his father, the murderous Killer Kane, was on parole and that he was basically free. After the news was given to him, Max blacks out and wakes up kicking the nurse. They try to calm him down and eventually they do. Throughout all of this, Kevin had stood by Max by changing everyone’s perspective on him. That he was nothing like his father, except for looks. The two friends also work together by combining their strengths and weaknesses. Max is a dull, but gentle giant teenager and Kevin is a midget genius. Together, they compensate for each other’s weaknesses by working together. The two are Freak the Mighty and they are smart and strong enough for any task ahead of them. Working together can help build a friendship. Many friendships are more fun with interesting adventures. At the Fourth of July fireworks display, Kevin and Max are cornered by Tony D, a notorious gangster asking for fireworks. Kevin becomes annoyed and starts to talk back to him. Tony D. got mad at them and they almost thought they were done for until, the cops showed up. Afterwards, they enjoy the parade and fireworks. Soon after, they go out for some drinks, Tony D. spots them again, and this time starts chasing them with a razor blade. To escape, Kevin orders Max to run into the muddy pond. Being taller than all of them, Max is able to stand and the center and not drown. When Tony follows them, he almost drowns and is pulled out by his gang. Just then, the police came and pulled Max and Kevin out of the lake and they went home. Soon, Kevin wakes up Max at 3 AM in the morning to go on another “adventure.” They got outside and they go to a storm drain and fish out a purse from the drains depths’. They figure out who it belongs to and they plan to return it. Turned out it belongs to a woman named Loretta Lee and they take it to the Tenements, the poor side of town, and return it to her. Now, they find out that her husband, Iggy Lee, was once buddies and partners with Killer Kane. They try to leave at once and once they do they agree that they won’t tell anyone about this. Next, at about Christmas time, Killer Kane invades Max’s house and kidnaps him. While in captivity, Kevin tells the police to search the town and to find Max. On the last night of Max’s capture, Kevin finds out where Max is and sneaks in. To create a distraction, he squirts Killer Kane in the eyes with a squirt gun. The mixture in the gun was curry powder, vinegar, and sulphur. Killer Kane chases them into the street. Kevin has the cops waiting and Killer Kane gets arrested once more. If you go on fun adventures, it will make a better friendship. In the novel “Freak the Mighty”, Kevin and Max have a strong friendship because they trust each other with their secrets. In conclusion, they take risks together, and they help each other in times of need. Finally, trust, teamwork, and having adventures are what make a strong friendship. Are your friendships as strong as Kevin and Max?
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