Freak: A Narrative Essay

Until Max met Kevin. Kevin had a birth defect his heart and head growed but everything else didn't grow. Max gets Kevin's toy bird from a tree .Max and Kevin became friends. They went on adventures and played pretend. They also went to school together .Max finally had a friend who taught became smarter and nicer .Max and Kevin became Freak the Mighty .At the end of the book Max’s father comes to kidnap Max on Christmas eve and brings him to the projects. On the next day Christmas, the cops come to find Max's father Killer Kane so he hides .He almost kills one of his roommates by strangling her but Max distracted him by saying he saw his father kill Max’s mother .Max’s father let his roommate go free. Then his father turns to Max and is about choke him. Then Kevin saves Max and Killer Kane is arrested .A couple of days later Kevin has a seizure

In the middle of the story, Max decides to get some clothes so that he can look like a cool rapper at his school. But then his family started using them so he decided to throw them out. Then one day when he went to the park, he saw a man wearing the exact same clothes that he had thrown out. Also, one day in P.E. class Max was feeling sick, then he threw up and Thug had started calling him Barf ever

Then one day Freak talked to him which was the beginning of a huge friendship, which was his calling. After they had a huge friendship, Freak teaches him how to use a dictionary, and also teaches him all the stuff they did at school. After the friendship gets closer and closer Maxwell understands what the problem is with Freak, which was that he could not walk since he was handicap. So, then Maxwell carries him around on his shoulder and Freak for the first time sees how everything looks from a high point of view. When Freak finds out what Maxwell?s weakness?s were, which were, he was not smart and did not know how to do anything, he started giving him lessons every single day. As Maxwell becomes smarter and smarter by the day they were known as ?Freak the Mighty? because Maxwell would always carry Freak around. This was Maxwell?s calling to become smarter. Maxwell?s journey was to save him and his best friend Freak from the strangers that were chasing after them for no reason, he did this by using his body and using Freak?s brains. Freak controlled Maxwell by kicking him on his left foot which meant go left and kicking him on his right to go right. Maxwell?s journey was also to save himself from his dad. When Maxwell was sleeping, Killer Kane kidnapped him and told him the whole story about how he got out of jail, how he did not kill his mother, and how every one thinks that he?s a murderer. Killer Kane made Maxwell think that he was innocent

Freak wakes Max up every morning by howling “ Wake up you lazy beast, we have dragons to slay”. Max gets called Killer Kane by kids at school. Freak gets put into the hospital when he choked. Gram and Grim fought over not having guns. Max gets called down to Mrs. Addison’s office to talk about his dad,

In class we are reading the book called Freak the Mighty. Currently we have only read chapters 1-16. But throughout all of them get to know the two most important characters, Freak and Max. As the narrator, Max thinks he is just one big guy that had no brain until Freak came along. Max lives with his two grandparents who which he calls Gram and Grim. When Max was little they tried to put him in daycare to improve his temper but instead he met Kevin. He had known him as the fierce who he never got around to kicking. Kevin was very unique from all the other kids because he was very small and used crutches as well as braces on his legs. Max was seriously jealous of Kevin because to him he seemed like a little

Maxwell Kane, a lumbering eighth grader who describes himself as a ``butthead goon,'' has lived with grandparents Grim and Gram ever since his father was imprisoned for murdering his mother. Mean-spirited schoolmates and special ed (for an undetermined learning disability) haven't improved his self-image, so he is totally unprepared for a friendship with Kevin, aka Freak, a veritable genius with a serious birth defect that has left him in braces and using crutches. Max is uplifted by Freak's imagination and booming confidence, while Freak gets a literal boost--hoisted onto Max's shoulders, he shares Max's mobility. Together they become Freak the Mighty, an invincible duo. Philbrick's first YA novel, already implausible, becomes choked with

Chapter six of Freakonomics, kind of plays off of chapter five of what it takes to be “a perfect parent”. Therefore the beginning of chapter six starts off by saying the first official act of being a parent is giving the baby a name (Levitt and Dubner, 2009). In recent years the baby naming industry has skyrocketed. There are all kinds of baby naming books, websites, generators, etc… Parents have set in their mind that if they name their baby the wrong name they will be doomed for life. However, in a recent situation, a father has named his son Winner, he thought how could a son fail with this name. In a few more years he has another son and names this won Loser. Despite his name, Loser ended up being the successful one, graduated from college, and joined the NYPD. As you can assume, Winner ended up being the unsuccessful one, having an enormous criminal background. The question then comes up, “does the name you give your child affect his life? Or is their life reflected by their name?” (Levitt and Dubner, 2009).

To everyone around him, Max is his father, making him a target for bullies young and old. Even his grandparents, who are now his legal guardians, are afraid of him because of his resemblance to the man who killed their daughter! For those who do not recognize him as the spitting image of a murderer, his sheer size and stupidity scares them away. For the people who are not afraid, they bully and tease him. Day after day, Max is taunted by his classmates with the slogan “‘Killer Kane, Killer Kane, has a kid who got no brain’”(Philbrick 76). Maxwell has not been able to find a person who wants or accepts him, but when Freak arrives, it is almost as if Max knew he had met his other half. Freak helps him with insecurities, and Max has the happiest year of his life.

“I’ll smoke that last cigarette,” he said to his wife. “Stupid of me- it was the one thing I forgot to bring back from the farm.”

Each boy is basically half a person each. They are like a whole person together. Max has the body height of a normal person, and Kevin has the brain of a normal human. They became friends the summer before eighth grade and now they are inseparable and called Freak the Mighty. They never left each other's side until Christmas Eve when Max's father kidnapped him. It hurt both of them, they were separated a while, but then got to see each other again. Once they got close again Max found out that Kevin's heart problems had gotten even worse and then he died, it really hurt Max because he lost his only real

The Stranger The Stranger exhibits a society that has confined itself with a specific set of social standards that dictate the manner in which people are supposed to act. This ideology determines the level of morality, and how much emphasis should placed on following this certain "ethical" structure. Albert Camus's main character, Meursault, is depicted as a nonconformist that is unwilling to play society's game. Through Meursault's failure to comply with society's values and conform to the norm, he is rejected and also condemned to death by society.

While reading The Stranger I noticed that traits that Albert Camus character depicts in the book are closely related to the theories of Sigmund Freud on moral human behavior. Albert Camus portrays his character of Meursault as a numb, emotionless person that seems to mindlessly play out his role in society, acting in a manner that he sees as the way he’s supposed to act, always living in the moment with his instincts driving him, and if the right circumstance presents itself the primal deep seeded animal will come out. I believe that most of the character’s traits fall under Freud’s notion of the Id and Ego mental apparatus, and don’t believe that his idea of the super-ego is represented in this book.

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