Freak The Mighty Relationships

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With all the books we’ve read throughout the semester, all of them have- in some way have been about mutual relationships. Freak the Mighty, Of Mice and Men, and Tuesdays with Morrie have all dealt with two main characters having a mutual relation that is either one-way or a stable one.

In the first book Freak the Mighty, The main characters- two young boys named Kevin and Max start off with a one way relationship with Max being a pair of legs for Kevin and not getting anything from the friendship Kevin sees of them in his head. Kevin see’s the two as knight and horse which is kind of a harsh thing to think Max is. After a while of not getting any satisfaction from the friendship Max decides to end it, not wanting to just be a pair of legs …show more content…

The second book- Of Mice and Men- our main characters Lennie and George are two runaways from their old town Weed after our dopey protagonist Lennie touches a lady’s dress, not knowing that the woman would scream and say it was sexual assault. Due to this incident the cops were called on the two and they had to run to avoid getting locked up.
The two needed a job since they were basically running from their old one, they drag themselves through brushes to get to Soledad where they find work, during this time we get to see how their relationship is. The relationship the two have isn’t very equal- it’s not equal because George is Lennie’s caretaker, Lennie isn’t too smart, so the ill tempered George has to set aside how annoyed get’s at Lennie to dig the poor dope out of the millions of holes he ends up falling into.
The relationship is stable in the sense that the two work well together, in both the book and movie they show Lennie and George work fairly well together on the actual job side of things. Outside of work George often snaps at Lennie like a dog due to being annoyed with Lennie’s sluggish brain. It is a torn opinion on if the relationship is

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