Summary Of Rodman Philbrick's Freak The Mighty

“Freak the Mighty” is a realistic fiction novel by Rodman Philbrick. This book tells the tale of the friendship between two polar opposite boys, Maxwell” Mighty” Kane and Kevin” Freak” Avery. I think the author’s main idea was Friends are essential to a person, everyone has hidden potentials. Live your life the best you can while you can.

The beginning starts with the narrator, an abnormally tall( 6 feet by eighth grade) boy, called Maxwell Kane. He lives with his grandmother and grandfather, Gram and Grim, respectively. He lives in their basement, of which Max calls “the down under”. Max's selfish and sociopathic father, Kenneth “Killer” David Kane, is in prison, convicted of strangling Max’s mom, Annie Kane to death when Max was

However, as her plan is close to succeeding, Killer Kane catches her and is squeezing her throat, strangling her dead with his bare hands. As Max is trying to pry his hands from Loretta’s neck, he reveals his knowledge regarding the night Killer Kane strangled Max’s mom to death. Max remembers Kane killing Annie. As soon as the words slipped out of his mouth, Kane removed his hands from Loretta’s neck onto Max’s. Right on time, Freak appeared and squirted Kane with a squirt gun in the eye, which he claims is filled with sulfuric acid( Freak later reveals there were only soap and vinegar and curry powder in the squirt gun). As Kane frantically rubs his eyes, the police take Killer Kane back to prison and he must serve his original time plus ten years. Lastly, after having a seizure on his birthday, Freak is admitted to the hospital, where he gives Max a blank book, telling him to write the story of Freak the Mighty in it. Max returns to the hospital the next day to find that Freak passed away because his heart became supremely large for his body. Dr. Spivak, Kevin's doctor, informs Max that Freak knew he was going to have a short life, but he told Max he was going to get a bionic

Young hermit crabs will often pick up a young sea anemone to attach to their shell and they become partners for life. Hermit crabs and sea Anemones engage symbiotic relationship, meaning they live in harmony together. The sea anemone offers protection for the hermit crab. When in danger or facing a potential threat, the hermit crab somehow is alert. The sea anemone spreads out long stinging threads over the hermit crab and extends its stinging tentacles out as additional protection, therefore the crab is less likely to be eaten. In return for protecting the crab, the sea anemone receives food. Since the sea anemone will eat just about anything in the sea, it gets to eat whatever tidbits the hermit crab leaves behind. The hermit crab does the work of capturing dinner and the sea anemone cleans up the leftovers. It’s a steady food supply for the sea anemone. Since sea anemones have little to no movement, another benefit of hitching a ride on a hermit crab’s shell is getting exposed to a much larger area to scavenge for food. While the hermit crab is trolling around on the seafloor, the anemone can make use of the time traveling on his mobile home to trap and collect plankton and small fish. This relationship connects to the relationship between Kevin and Max because all the organisms benefit from the relationship. Freak the Mighty makes a great team, "Sometimes we're nine feet