The Theme Of Maximum Ride The Angel Experiment By James Patterson

In the story Maximum Ride The Angel Experiment, there is a group of six mutant bird children, who are on the run from “the school” that is trying to capture them ever since they escaped. They have to grow up quickly though, in this book and face all obstacles the school throws at them to save their family and keep it safe. Maximum Ride The angel experiment was written by the author James Patterson, who has released more than 150 books in his writing career.
One theme that keeps going throughout the whole book is family. The flock spends a lot of their time protecting and caring for each other, “I’m Max. I’m fourteen. I live with family, who are five kids not related to me by blood, but still totally my family.” (pg.1) Even though the flock

Maximus and the others of the flock where saved from the school by a man named Jeb. Jeb had hid them away, and raised them like his own. Then one day, he just vanished. The flock had thought he had died, “Two years ago, he’d disappeared. I knew he was dead, we all did, but we didn’t talk about it.” (pg.9) But after Angel had gotten to the school, she realized that Jeb had not died, but had actually had went back to the school. “Jeb looked like he was on their side now. An enemy of the flock, like all the other whitecoats at the School.” (pg.140) And when the others from the flock got to the school, they had also realized that their only family outside the flock, their parent, their father figure had lied to them, was a traitor and had abandoned them “Now my eyes were telling me that he was one of them. That maybe he'd been one of them all along. That everything I'd ever known or felt about him had been a rotten, stinking lie.” (pg. 189)The flock realized that there were not many people they could trust. At the end of the book, Max was fighting Ari at the institution after freeing the new mutants, and she had knocked Ari over, but he had fallen weirdly, and snapped his neck, killing him. “ ‘you really hurt me’ he gasped rawly, terrible surprise in his voice. ‘I wouldn't hurt you. Not like this’” (pg. 397) and after accidentally killing Jeb’s son Ari, Jeb had yelled out to Max “You

The flock has always had courage. Especially when it comes to saving family. When angel had been abducted by the flock, the flock had still decided that they needed to go to save Angel, even though they knew it would be an unfair fight for them. "You know we have to go after Angel. You can't be thinking that we would just let them take her. The six of us look out for one another—no matter what. None of us is ever going to live in a cage again, not while I'm alive.¨ (pg. 34) Even if it meant they may die, they would die protecting each other. They were all they had, and they wouldn’t let anyone take that away from them. Even if it meant the ultimate sacrifice “But if worse came to worse, I had a secret Plan C. If it worked, everyone would escape and get free. Except me. But that was okay.” (pg. 59) And Max was completely fine with sacrificing herself for the rest of the flock, which is alot for a fourteen year old to handle. The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective. Like right now. My choices were to either give in and let them kill all of us or fight back with everything I had.” (pg. 201) and the flock had already faced so much by that time that they have a quick fight reaction to danger, and it has helped save them multiple times throughout the book. Max’s quick thinking along with her courageous nature help save the