Character Analysis in Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

It all began in daycare. Freak and Max were in the same center. Freak was little and using crutches and Max was bigger than the rest of the kids his age. One day Max noticed that Freak didn't come to daycare or for the rest of the year. After awhile Max didn't see Freak until the third grade. That's when he sees him on a crippled van scowling at him.

During the summer before eighth grade, new neighbors move in to a duplex next door. However, their not new neighbors. It's Freak and his mother who have just moved in.

As Freak is bossing the movers around his mother tells him to go play in the back yard. As he is turning around, Freak sees Max and calls him an earthling and asks for his name. Max is then scared by Freak and runs into his room, because Freak had told him to die.

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Max laid in his bed just thinking about why he called him earthling. After awhile, Max goes back outside. To his surprise, Freak is outside too. Yet, he's standing by a tree hitting it, and then he crawls to the house, drags a red wagon out, and climbs into it and resumes hitting the tree. Max wonders what he is hitting, so he moves to get a better view. That's when he sees an object in the tree. Therefore, he goes over to get the object out of the tree, but Freak startles him when he points his crutch at him. Those crutches really scare Max. Freak is so out of breath that he couldn't speak nor move. So max reaches up and gets the object. It's a mechanical bird. Max asked if Freak wanted it, and of course, he did. That was the beginning of their continuing relationship.

Freak asked Max where he lived. Max told him that his room is in the basement. Freak wanted to see his room. When they are in his room, Freak makes himself very comfortable and starts to tell him about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. He gets offended when Max said that he thought robots were fake. Freak calms down and explains to Max about robots.

Ten minutes later, Gwen is calling for Freak. When she sees Max, she puts Freak in the wagon and rushes into the house. The next day Gram knocks on Max's door. She wanted to talk to him about how Gwen acted yesterday when she saw Max. She told Max that Gwen was sorry and wanted to invite him to dinner. Max's reaction was not what I expected; he said did he have to? Gram told him that he didn't have to go, but it would be nice to.

That night Max went to have dinner with Freak and his mother. I guess she was in a rush, because she was talking very fast. During the preparation, she was telling Max about when she knew his mother and father.

During dinner, Max chokes on some food, because Freak is telling strange and funny robot stories. Max then coughs up a yucky mess, but he continues to laugh. After they finished eating, Max had to go home.

It's now the fourth of July. Today Freak and Max are going to the pond to see the firecrackers. On their way there, Tony D. starts to bother them. Freak gets upset and starts to walk away. He tells Max to follow him and to ignore the cretin. This made Tony D. mad, but before he could do something the sound of a cop car runs them off.

At the pond, Max had to put Freak on his shoulders so he could see. As every firecracker explodes, he gets excited and names each and every chemical.

After the show, Freak and Max headed for the snack stand. Yet, they make it, because they started running from Tony D. and his gang. Max runs into the pond, which was a good idea, because Tony D. could not go as deep into the water. Therefore, he and his gang started to throw rocks. Luckily, Freak sees a cop car and starts whistling. Tony D. and his gang runaway again as the cops came to their rescue.

As the cops drove Freak and Max home, they made Max seem like a hero. Grim and Gram were so proud of him.

During the rest of the summer, Freak and Max go on quests. Every morning, Freak knocks on Max's window waking him up, so they can go.

One day, Freak took Max on a very long journey. Max's feet were beginning to hurt that's how he knew they were going farther than usual. Freak had taken him to a building called The Experimental Bionics Unit. Freak told Max that the place is making a new body for him. That way he can be normal.

That night, Freak has another quest for them. They have to dress in all black and cover their faces in black. At three I the morning, they start the quest. Freak had Max walk down the street to a sewer drain. In the drain, was a purse. Freak had made a fishing pole out of kite string and a paper clip. There was no money in the purse, but there was an ID. The purse belonged to some woman named Loretta Lee.

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