Instead of just reading ONE blog post i decided that i wanted to read what other people thought about a book that i have already read. So i looked through old posts and found a few different posts all about the book Freak the Mighty. I read many posts but i decided to write about posts from Yaroslav and Dia. Dia was in my reading group so I already knew her opinions on some of the issues but Yaroslav was in a different Freak the Mighty group so it was interesting to read what he thought about the book as well. Because I have already read this book it was interesting to compare my opinions to other peoples. For example i know this book is about friendship but i never examined it as closely as Dia did in her very first post. I never noticed that it is really a special "zing" that makes these two totally different people have a friendship that is so close. Yaroslav also mentions how not many people get to see the good side of Max. I think this is so true and because Freak and Max are so close is the reason Freak gets to see the good side of him. It is almost like the good side of both Freak and Max IS that extra "zing" that makes their friendship work.
One interesting point that Yaroslav brought up is when he mentions that Max has stage fright. I really think this is interesting and reminds me of a point that Nat brought up in his post about Freak the Mighty.
In the last sentence he says that people sometimes single Max out and make him feel as though he did something wrong. I think these two observations go hand in hand. I think if you have been judged your whole life you are going to be worried if you say the wrong thing in front of a lot of people. Even if Max did not do anything wrong people still look at him as if he is some stupid freak of nature and that puts someone under a lot of pressure, ESPECIALLY because he didn't have a lot of confidence to start off with.
In a post by Yaroslav he mentions about the sequel to Freak the Mighty called Max the Mighty. I didn't even know there was a sequel! He makes me want to read this book a lot because i do agree with his opinions so when he says that the sequel was good i think he must be right. He makes the book sound very interesting just by mentioning some parts of the book.
All of the posts mention the characters in the book, at least once. I think it is interesting how we can all be different people and still think about things in the same way. Everyone talks about how Max is this big guy but he does have a soft side. Another popular subject was there friendship. All of these different people have a common topic and i think that is showing authors purpose. If all of these people are writing about similar issues in the book, or what they think the theme is it must mean that the author wants you to think about this. If only one or two people wrote about how Max does have a soft side it would not make sense and it wouldn't be as important. But all of the blogs do talk about similar issues (in their own ways of course!) and that shows how much people do care about this.
I really enjoyed reading all of these blogs. They gave out opinions and information that i didn't notice the first, or second time i read Freak the Mighty. I liked how i could tell the difference between every blog, they weren't all just the same but people incorporate their own personalities into them.
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