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    “Friendship” From the past, my family has to live in the countryside in an old house. Our family life keep staying the same and one day have changed by my mother. She has done something and makes my family get better from the poor life. She changed my life for the poor life to a new life and now I can speak English, I can do everything from that I never have done before. Because of her my life have changed and get better from the past. In this novel, Freak the Mighty Rodman Philbrick uses the literary devices of characterization and dialogue to reveal the theme of the importance of friendship. One literary device Rodman Philbrick uses the reveal the theme of the importance of friendship…

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    In this novel, “Freak the Mighty” Rodman Philbrick uses the literary devices of characterization (what Max does), characterization (what Kevin does), symbolism to reveal the theme of the importance of friendship. One literary device Rodman Philbrick uses to reveal the theme of the importance of friendship is symbolism. In the story when Max and Kevin are watching the firework, and Kevin has his crutch because he can’t walk without it, Max observes “Freak is making a fuss because he can’t see.…

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    one of the victim of Max. As the time passed away, spring, they met again. Max saw Kevin working with his ornithopter which is mechanical bird. When the bird stucked on a tree branch, Kevin saw Max watching him and Max ran away because he was afraid of Kevin. The time passed, they became friends because Max helps Kevin to get his ornithopter on a tree branch. When they became friends, they always going out for a quest and Kevin thought their name Freak the Mighty because they helped each other…

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    The theme of the novel Freak the Mighty, by Rodman Philbrick is “two is stronger than one.” In this novel, two friends Freak (Kevin) and Max go through a journey of friendship, discovering exactly how far their bond can be pushed. The first time this theme is seen is when Freak and Max defeated Blade, a gang leader, using teamwork. The first example from the text is, “Finally, I get so that I’m facing back at the shore and there’s Blade, just his head above the water, and he looks all white…

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    Freak the Mighty Book vs. Movie Sean Budomo The book Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick and the movie made after it, The Mighty, have many similarities and differences that make them unique in their own ways. The plot in both the movie and the book is the same for the most part, except for a few outliers. This story is about two boys who are opposite in how they look, but they are treated the same way. One of the boys’ names is Kevin, or Freak. Freak is made fun of because of his appearance.…

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    In the book “Freak the Mighty” by Rodman Philbrick, Freak is revealed as a greathearted, courageous, inventive, and sagacious character through interactions with other characters, such as Maxwell and Killer Kane. One example of an interaction where Freak gets revealed is on pg. 77 where Maxwell could not answer a question. The kids in the class started taunting him, but then Freak intervenes and says, “Order in the court! Let justice be heard!” This shows that Freak is greathearted because he…

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    In the book Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick Max and Freak become good friends even know they had some issues in the past They have tons of confusion and aggression as a rebel named Tony D. stepped in their path. Tony D. called them freaks and ordered to have a talk with them. This shows that Tony wants to bully a self centered Max and a different Freak over their looks and actions. This is because Tony chose a life on the run from adults and cops for he harassed children and fellow…

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    n the novel Freak the Mighty Rodman Philbrick tells the story of two boys who face many struggles in life. Kevin and Maxwell, the main characters, realize that they both have similarities and differences.❤ In this essay I will be talking about the boys individually and their friendship. Kevin is a very intelligent boy, but was born with birth defects. His father left his mother and him alone after he heard the words, “Birth Defect.” He had a crippled leg and had to use crutches to walk.…

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    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…

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    Freak the Mighty is about friendship. Both the book and movie of were marvelous experiences. Max is one of the main static characters the other main character is Freak. Freak helps Maxs believe in himself there are like Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket. Max and Freak have a struggled past, but that is what brings them together to become Freak the Mighty. Their are some similarities and differences I will tell you in the next paragraphs. In the book Freak the Mighty, Max says he remembers Freak in…

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