Max And Kevin In Freak The Mighty

Have you ever felt like the underdog? Have you been treated like you were less than a person? Well take a lesson or two from Freak the Mighty. Our main characters, Max and Kevin, are a dynamic duo. We have Max, the Mighty, who is considered to be stupid and a strong youth that is going to turn out to be...eek, eek...his father, Killer Kenny Kane. We also have Kevin, Freak, the uber smart, crippled kid that moves in next door to Max at the beginning of their eighth grade year of school. Due to Max’s curiosity about the strange boy next door a friendship is forged. Max is intrigued by the amount of knowledge Kevin possesses and Kevin loves the power he receives when he is atop Max’s shoulders. We also have Grim and Gram, Max’s grandparents, …show more content…
They seem to fear their grandson will turn out to be like his father, who we learn later murdered his wife while in front of Max. As Max is sitting outside, he sees a new neighbor moving in next door. He is spying over the fence when he sees a small boy, Kevin whom he recognizes from day care, shouting out orders to the movers. His mother shoos him along and he goes out playing with his ornithopter. He gets the mechanical bird stuck in a tree, where Max rescues it and a friendship is made. Max and Kevin go to the fireworks where Max sympathizes with Kevin not being able to see the fireworks and gets the idea to pick Kevin up and put him on his shoulders. Kevin LOVES the view from up there and he remains there for most of the story. They later run into Tony D and his gang. There Kevin uses his brains to get the boys into trouble. He is unaware that even though Max is big he is very timid. They end up getting chased into a pond where they have to be rescued from the gang by the police. When the boys return home, Grim and Gram start to treat Max more like a son. At school, we see the boys transform into “Freak the Mighty,” because the class is teasing Max. Kevin climbs atop of Max’s shoulders and the class goes crazy and the teacher has to hide under her desk from the chaos in the classroom. The boys then go on quests to the hospital, where Kevin explains he will get a robotic body …show more content…
They are having a great time eating, socializing, and opening presents. Kevin gives Max the best gift...a pyramid shaped gift box with a dictionary he made of all of his own words (real words and his made up words). That night, Killer Kenny Kane comes and kidnaps Max. He takes him to Iggy and Loretta’s apartment. They help hide the recently paroled Killer and his ill dressed son. Kenny Kane does not treat his son the way we would expect him to. He ties him up and tries to brainwash him into believing he is a “man of God.” Kevin and the police show up causing Kenny Kane to ask for a gun and a car. This is the part where we start to question if Kenny Kane is truly a man of God or a hardened criminal. Kenny ties Max to a heater in the burnt up basement. Loretta sneaks down to rescue the poor boy, when Kenny returns and starts to strangle her. We fear for Loretta...Will she survive? Will Killer Kane murder Loretta? Max flashes back to the night his mother is murdered. He mistakes what he is seeing for that of the night he witnessed his mother being murdered by his father. It was happening again. Max starts to yell as if he was a young boy again. This gets the attention of his father; however, his father then starts to strangle Max. He must eliminate the witnesses. Kevin then rolls into the basement to save his partner. He is armed with a squirt gun filled with sulphuric acid (soap and curry