Narrative Essay On Miracle Max

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. “You are going to help me!” Fezzik screams at the top of his lungs. He has been pounding on the door for what seems like hours. Fezzik knocks on the door with one hand and clutches his blood-pouring side with the other. “Please Miracle Max! If you help me I will pay you what I have and work off what I owe! Please! Please!” “No!” Max says once again. “I am not Miracle Max anymore! I am Max! Just Max!” Fezzik begins to sob.
“Please Max! Please!” Fezzick begs as everything goes dark. “Wh-where am I?” Fezzik questions as he wakes up from his unintended slumber. As he tries to stand up in his own puddle of blood, he hears glass break and a scream erupts from the tiny house. “YOU HAVE TO HELP HIM!” Says a woman inside the house. “SAYS WHO?!” A man’s voice returns in a snappy tone. More glass shatters and the same voice screams, “Fine, fine! I’ll help him. Just don’t throw any more of my potions at me.”
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Fezzick’s brown curls stick to his sweaty forehead. Even sitting, he towers over both of the elderly people. “Drag him in.” Max says quietly. The woman inside, Valerie, doesn’t move at all. She is too surprised at the sight of this poor man. “Drag him in! If you do not help he will surely die!” Max screaks at

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