An Overview of Freak the Mighty Novel by Rodman Philbrick

During Christmas Eve, Gwen and Freak join Max and his grandparents for dinner. After supper, they sit around talking and opening one present. Everyone likes their presents, especially Max. Grim is amazed at the box Freak made Maxis present in. It was rigged, so that when Max pressed a button, it would open. Inside was a dictionary that Freak made for Max. It had all his favorite words, but with definitions Max would understand.

That night Max got a surprising present, his father. Kenny had snuck into the house. He put his hand over Max's mouth and told him not to say a word. Kenny tells Max to put on his shoes. They left the house and go to Loretta and Iggyis house. They are shock with the presence of Kenny in their house. Yet, they don't stay their long. Iggy had another place for them to stay. I guess he broke into some old woman's house, because max says that it smelt like an old woman and cats.

At the house, Kenny takes a bible and swears on it that he didn't kill Maxis mother. Then he takes a rope and ties it to him and Max, so he can make sure Max will not runaway.

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In the morning, Loretta coming in through the back way awakens Kenny. She said that nothing was open, so she brought some left over pizza. Kenny kept insisting to see Iggy and for her to leave. When she did leave, he told Max not to eat anything she touches. Therefore, they went into the kitchen to find something to eat. All the found were prunes, cereal, and spoiled stuff in the refrigerator. So Max just ate some cereal with water. It didn't bother him, because he was so hungry.

When Iggy arrived, he told Kenny that the cops had came by his house looking for Max. Kenny told him that he needed a gun and transportation. Iggy left to get what he wanted.

Just to be safe, Kenny moves them into the basement of an old burned building. Now he stuffs a gag into Maxils mouth and goes out to see Iggy. When he is gone, Loretta enters the basement to free Max. Next thing you know Kenny has his hands around her neck about to kill her, then Max jumps between them saying that he remembers Kenny killing his mother. Kenny them grasps his neck,

but lightly. As Max told Kenny what he remembered from the night his mother died, his grip got stronger. Surprisingly, the window breaks open and the police are there, so is Freak. He enters the room with a water gun filled with sulfuric acid. Kenny doesn't believe that sulfuric acid was in the gun, so Freak pulled the trigger right into his eyes. They start running up the steps and get to the outside. There was a whole bunch of police around them. Gwen, Gram and Grim were all they're happy to see them.

They had to go down to the police station and fill out papers and take pictures. Back at school, other students are jealous because Freak and Max got their pictures in the newspaper and on television

Now Max sleeps on the pull out couch and Gram always checks on him every night. Schools out and it's Freak's birthday. He keeps wishing for things that are impossible for him to get right now. The party was a formal party, so he would not get over excited. Everyone ate food and cake. Freak did not eat his cake. When he got his new computer, he was anxious to set it up and start working on it. Max had gone into the kitchen to help clean up. Then all of a sudden Grim is shouting [Kevin. He was having a seizure.

They took Freak to the hospital were they had went to before. There they had a tube in his throat that controlled breathing. Freak told Max that he was going to be put into his new body tonight. Max is scared. Freak then gives Max an empty book that he wanted to write the adventures they had in it.

The next morning. Max woke up early to go see Freak, without anyone knowing. When he got to the hospital, the nurses were crying and trying to hug Max. He wanted to know what had happened and no one would tell him. Therefore, he broke the window to the medical research door. The next door he could not break through, because it was all metal. So the security struggled with Max and finally got hand-cuffs on him. When Dr. Spivak got there, Max calmed down and told him what happened. Freak was not going there for a new body. He made that up, he always knew since he was young that he was not going to live long.

For the next year or so, Max is depressed about Freak dying. That's until he sees Loretta Lee and she told him that him doing nothing was a drag. Therefore, that night, Max opened the pyramid box Freak had made, took out the empty book, and started writing in it.

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