Freak the Mighty: Post 2

How did this friendship change Max and Kevin at the end of the story?

I think that both Kevin and max benefited from this friendship tremendously. They both were outsiders even if Max emphasized the fact more often than Kevin they both knew it deep down. People avoided both of them and they both did not have a lot of experience with friendship. They had their strengths and weaknesses. They saved the good and bad. This is what made them Freak the Mighty!

Kevin (also known as Freak) did not express it that much but this friendship helped him hugely! Freak was always an outside, even if he didn't realize it sometimes. In pre school, Freak was the weird one with crutches who was small. He did not matter, to anyone except one little boy called kicker who was jealous of him and his crutches. Later when Freak and Max reunited, Freak went from walking 2 above the ground to high above the world! Freak was born to be 30 feet tall and has a personality to fit 10 people! This was all considered weird until he had max to admire it.

Max is a 7 foot tall 8^th grader. Do I have to explain why he was an outsider. If he wasn't considered weird before, then after his dad killed his mom people started to avoid him like the black plague. He was the little boy who thought freaks crutches were cool. He admired Freak even before they were friends. Max lived in a basement and did nothing all day, until Freak was his friend. Together they went on quests to save damsels in distress at the break of dawn, they walked miles to find treasure, they fought off evil knife carrying villains, they were FREAK THE MIGHTY!! Max never would have had that experience if it wasn't for Freak.

At the end of the story freak dies, but their friendship will stay in Maxs' heart for life. You just can't forget someone who saved you from your psycho killer father. Someone who yells out what chemical combination the fireworks are on the 4^th of july. Freak might have died but what he did for max will never be forgotten.

Dead or alive this relationship gave them an experience that they will hold onto for eternity. A new and different friendship. Max became stronger with and without Freak. He gradually gained confidence in himself that he never knew existed. Max was just right for Freak even if it didn't show Max helped Freak just by being Max. By the end both are stronger even without each other, just because of the friendship they had together.