Freak the Mighty
By: Rodman Philbrick
Setting
The story takes place in Anytown, USA. The stores setting is in Max's and Andy's (Freak) neighborhood, school, and Killer Kane's house.
These are the main characters
Andy (Freak)
Freak is a kid who gets bulled at his school for having leg braces and can't walk without them. Also, Freak has a disease called Morquio Syndrome (your heart gets to big for your body). Freak normally after school will stay home and make inventions or reads form his dictionary.
Max
Max is a kid who finds Freak when a couple of bullies that bully him throw a basketball at Freak and blame it on him. Max has a learning disability and ties to find ways to avoid people or rays his hand in class so no one makes fun of him. He finds Freak to help him become smarter and try not to deal with other people and they become best friends. Now Max protects Freak to make sure no one messes with Freak.
Killer Kane
Killer Kane is Max's dad who goes to jail for murder. Later on he is released but is on probation. Killer Kane has a plan to get his son back by kidnaping him.
Conflict
Max must overcome his feeling of being a "nobody", and he must accept learn to accept himself for who he is. Freak has to deal with people picking on him and overcome his disease called morquio syndrome. Together they deal with the kids at there school calling them names and threatening them, so Max puts Freak on his back to chow that they are bigger and stronger then everyone else.
Rising Action
Max has a learning disability and asked Freak if he could help him with reading and learning. Everyday after school Max and Freak would sit together and read to each other to help Max out with school. They decide to team up and help each other out with there problems.
Climax
Killer Kane is Max's dad who kidnaps Max while Max is sleeping and Freak comes to save him. Killer Kane traps Max in his basement and Freak calls the cops and tries his best to save Max by putting chemicals in a water gun and shooting Killer Kane with it. Then the cops quickly show up to the scene to arrest Killer Kane.
Fallind action
Max wakes up a day before Christmas Eve to see a ambulance in front of Freaks house. Max running over to Freaks house to see what was going on finds out that Freak just suffered from a stroke. So Freak's mom takes Max to the hospital to see Freak. Max barraging into the hospital to go to Freak and the doctors tell him that his heart got so big that it stopped and it wasn't a stroke. Max panicking and frustrated runs to go see Freak for one more time and finds him peacefully lying on the hospital bed.
Resolution
When Freak dies Max goes back to being bullied at school. But, he is happier because of all the thing Freak thought him up to this point taught him to think positive. At the end of the book you find out that all along Max is writing the book.
By: Cameron Boden
Origans of Language period 6th