Theme Of Friendship In Rodman Philbrick's Freak The Mighty

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In the book Freak The Mighty by Rodman Philbrick I believe the theme is that friendship is unlimited my your physical differences. Max, a very big eighth grader and our narrating main character, is at the Fourth of July fireworks with his new best friend Freak, who according to Max hasn't grown since preschool. Freak is unable to see anything. Max recalls, “I just sort of reach down without thinking and pick up Freak and set him on my shoulders” (Philbric, 32). Max and Freak are different but Max is still there for Freak. To them it doesn't matter how they look. Another time Max and Freak showed that their friendship was not limited by physical differences was when they were in class for the first time together. Freak tells the