Compare And Contrast: The Mighty And Freak The Mighty

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I think that The Mighty and Freak The Mighty had some differences but they also had some similarities. One of the similarities was that they both had the same characters, and one of the differences was that not all of the scenes were shown in the movie that was in the book. Also, there are some differences about how reading it than watching it like when you read the book it's a little bit more detailed and when you watch the movie they take out a lot of parts that are in the book.
I'm going to talk about the scenes, in the movie it showed that Freak wanted to do gym and then the principal did not let Freak do gym but his mother convinced the principal to let Freak join the gym. That scene was not in the book and there were other scenes that

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