What Is The Relationship In Maximum Ride By James Patterson

Even in this intense story, Maximum Ride, James Patterson still manages to fit in an interesting relationship between two characters, Max and Fang. In our story's first chapter I will ponder Max and Fang’s unique relationship, and see why they might have this relationship. Another interesting thing we will look at is how the author foreshadows it too. In Maximum Ride, there are human-bird hybrids that escape from an evil lab. When one of the mutants gets taken captive so the scientist could perform experiments on her (Patterson 22), protagonist Max, and some of the other mutants, Fang and Nudge go to save her. After they save the captive, the Flock (the group of the human-bird hybrids) goes to New York. In New York, they go to the beach, and

Fang doesn’t talk that much, but when he does it almost always has a meaning. Max doesn’t like how Fang is usually right, and how he uses cold logic. She is his other half, so when he wants to do something logical, she wants to do something kind. They balance each other out, and Max realizes that she might have feelings for Fang. You can see their balancing when they find a bunch of mutants hiding in New York (Patterson, 396), Fangs says “You know, we can’t save them all,” but Max counters back with “I’m supposed to save the whole world, remember. I’m gonna to start with these guys.” (Patterson 398). You can also see this happening when Max wants to go help a girl in a fight with some guys, but Fang says they should be safe. Logic, caring, logic, caring, they just balance out, and when you have balance, you can have a

One of the many ways he does this is by showing that they know each other real good, through looks… Throughout the story, Max and Fang give each other looks (an example would be on page 288). They seem to talk through these looks, and they know what each other is thinking. I also think that you have to be really good friends with somebody to get what they are thinking, I mean you don’t just go up to somebody and give them a look, that says Our winged little girl just used her mind to make someone buy something, isn’t that kind of scary, I mean what if that happened to us. You need a connection with someone to do that, you need to know somebody really good.

I wonder what gave them this connection in the first place. I mean, they seem like total opposites, and from any movie I’ve seen, these two opposites always need a spark. I think that this spark was Fang stuck up for her, and I think that it went a little like this:

“Out,” the evil scientist yelled at her, “You two dark wings, you have another maze run