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Max And Freak The Mighty Rodman Philbrick Character Analysis

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Max and freak the quest of friendship (working together) When I was a kid in Sherman Oaks Elementary School, I changed when I became friends with Ethan into a happy person in school. When Ethan came along, I felt happy because he’s being all nice and helping me a lot and he challenged me to a foot race with me too and all of that made me have all the fun In his novel, Freak the Mighty Rodman Philbrick uses the literary devices of characterization and dialogue to reveal the theme of the power of friendship to face one’s problems. One literary device Rodman Philbrick uses to reveal the theme of the importance of friendship to face one’s problems is characterization, what Max thinks. …show more content…

In the story when He reached down to Freak and let him see the firework, Max does states “‘I pick him up and I’m amazed” “There are so many people crowded around, all he can see are feet and knees, and people are lifting their little kids up to see the fireworks explode like hot pink flowers in the sky, and so I just sort of reach down without thinking and pick up Freak and set him on my shoulders” (32)(cite page number where quote occurs). This shows that Max’s just reach down and pick Freak up to see the amazing firework. In the story when Freak is going to save Max from his father, Freak does states “‘I’m warning you,” “he says in that fierce bold way he has. He’s got a squirt gun, one of those big blasters models that holds about a gallon of water.Killer Kane is looking at me, he’s looking at Loretta all crumpled and meaning, he’s looking at Freak” This also shows that Freak is saving his friend from his father. In conclusion, Rodman Philbrick in his novel, Freak the Mighty uses as the literary devices of characterization -- what a character does, feels, thinks, or says -- and dialogue to reveal the theme of the power of friendship to face one’s problems.It changes me because it taught me how to be nice to my friends and to help them out too from any bad

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