Conflict In Freak The Mighty

“I never had a brain until Freak came along.” This is a quote from Max who is one of the main characters in Freak the Mighty. The two main characters in Freak the Mighty are Max and Kevin. Kevin is also known as Freak. Max is a boy who isn’t very smart but is very tall and strong. Unlike Max, Freak is a boy who is physically disabled and has trouble walking. Freak is very intelligent. In the story when Max and Freak are together Max usually carries Freak on his shoulders. In the exhilarating novel “Freak the Mighty”, the author Rodman Philbrick uses plot and conflict to express one of the books themes, mental and physical forces can work together. Throughout the story Max and Freak use their differences to get themselves out of many different

card to Loretta and Iggy Lee. Max and Freak get forced inside and Iggy asks them a series of questions. Max and Freak are both really nervous. Iggy demands them for the money that was in the purse that they found the I.D. card in. Freak replies, “I’ve got two dollars in change, you can have it but we have to go home now.” Freak continues to answer all if Iggy’s questions and as soon as Iggy says they can go, Max gets Freak out of the room as fast he can. This expresses how Freak was able to keep his cool even though he knew that Iggy could harm them. Max is also able to quickly realize that he needed to get himself and Freak out of there as soon as possible. As soon as he heard Iggy say they can go he grabbed Freak and ran out of the room before Iggy could change his mind. This is important because if they didn’t make the decisions they did and worked together Iggy could have decided to keep them. On pages 76-80 Max and Freak have their first day of school and in one of their classes the kids start to pick on Max. Freak stands up for Max and screams, “Order, order in the court. Let justice be heard!” Everyone stops and the teacher asks Freak if he was Kevin. Freak replies, “ Sometimes I’m more than just Kevin.” He than signals Max to put him on his shoulders. Max puts Freak on his shoulders and Freak begins to feel a sense of confidence because he is on Max’s

Freak tries to signal Max to get help. Max sprints to the nurses office and yells, “Quick, he can’t breathe, he can’t breathe!” The nurses rush to Freak and call an ambulance. Freak goes to the hospital and starts to breathe again. Freak ends up feeling better but Max is left wondering about Freak for the rest of the day. This models how Freak can use his mental capabilities to figure out a way to tell Max to to get help even though he can’t talk because he is choking. Max takes advantage of his speed and gets help. This is very important because Freak could have died On pages 127-133 Max is left tied up in the cellar of the house that Killer Kane’s hideout is in. Killer Kane leaves the house but is coming back soon. Loretta Lee ends up turning on Killer Kane while he is gone by untying Max. He gets ready to leave when suddenly Killer Kane comes back and starts to strangle Loretta. Killer Kane then takes his hands off of Loretta and starts choking Max. Then out of nowhere Freak comes into the cellar with a squirt gun. Killer Kane stops choking makes and looks at Freak. Freak then tells Killer Kane that inside of the squirt gun was “Sulfuric acid,” he started raising up the gun and sighting along the barrel, “Good old reliable H2SO4, an oily, corrosive liquid used