Freak the Mighty Freak the Mighty is a wonderful story about two boys living totally different lives. Max is a giant and Kevin is a dwarf, and slowly they become the best of friends. Kevin and Max don’t have many friends besides each other, which makes them love to be with each other everywhere they go. You will read some interesting and funny facts about them and how they have similarities and differences. Their friendship leads to the title of this story when Kevin and Max nickname themselves Freak and Mighty. Kevin is a two foot tall, 13 year old boy in middle school. He wears glasses and has blonde hair. He is physically handicapped because of Morquio Syndrome, a disease that causes him to be short. Because he is short, it is hard for him to do things, but he makes up games to keep himself busy. He loves to pretend he is a knight on a quest for the king. Kevin met Max in daycare when they were little, after Max came to live with his grandparents. Kevin used to call himself a robot man because of his crutches. Sadly, Kevin died because his heart got too big for his body. Max helped make sure Kevin’s legacy carried on forever by telling this story. Max is a seven foot tall, 13 year old boy in middle school. Max is Kevin’s best friend and the narrator of the story. Max had a rough start in life. When he was four years old, his dad killed …show more content…
They are both in middle school at the beginning of the book. Although throughout the whole book they are in the same grade, and as the title says Max and Kevin are the two that make up the “Freak the Mighty”. The Freak the Mighty was made when the two started to see their similarities and became friends. Remember how Max was a giant and Kevin was short when together they are teamtall just like how they have teamwork to help each other. They really like to do mischievous things and play around, like kids do, and sometimes the things they do are
Freak the Mighty By: Jason, Emily, Paul, Cameron, and Dylan In the story, Freak the Mighty, Rodman Philbrick tells the story of two unlikely friends, came along. He encouraged Max to read and write more often. Max had always sat in the “down both with unique imperfections. With Freak’s (Kevin’s) brain and Max’s size, the extraordinary friendship creates “Freak the Mighty”. Max was never too fond of reading or writing until Freak under” (the basement) reading comics, but then Freak had helped him
Freak the Mighty In the book, “Freak the Mighty,” by Rodman Philbrick, the book is taken place in new hampshire. An overly big kid named Max always thinks low of himself. But that all changed when he found a new kid in town named Freak, who has Morquio's syndrome, which means that he’s growing on the inside, but not the outside. As time passes, the two become very good friends, and they go on various adventures. One adventure was them going to the hospital, where freak is getting fitted to get
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick is about two boys, Kevin and Max. Max doesn’t trust other people and does whatever he can to keep them from getting too close. In daycare, he does this by kicking people, whom they call him Kicker. Then freak is the exact opposite of max, he is small, smart, confident, adventurous and called himself a robot man because of the leg braces he had to wear. Sometimes the most precious people in our life were meant to be there, to teach us a lesson and to help us figure
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The novel Freak the Mighty, written by Rodman Philbrick, is a wonderful book told from the perspective of Max (one of the two main characters), is a story of unforgettable friendship. Max and Kevin (the other main character) meet for the first time in preschool. Years later, Kevin moves in to Max’s neighborhood. This is when the friendship of hope, confidence, and strength build up in both Max and Freak, and together they accomplish what no one can. The book starts off with Max thinking about “The