Social action #2

I have finished reading Freak the Mighty Rodman Philbrick. The question that best fits this story is that Freak's perspective is missing. The story is about Maxwell Kane and how he is low self esteem and calls himself a "butthead." He meets a boy named Kevin and has a disease that makes him wear crutches and leg braces and thinks himself as a robot.  Kevin or "Freak" moves in and is a neighbor of Max. When Max gets Kevin's toy from the tree, that is the start of their friendship. After escaping a gang, they start calling themselves "Freak the Mighty" and go to places like the hospital and Freak will say stories of how it has bionic things in there. Freak has and emergency in school and Max finds out that his father killed his mother throughout the story and is kidnapped by his father on Christmas eve. Loretta, wife of the leader of the gang that tried to capture Freak and Max tries to save Max. Max's father gets her and strangles her and Max says that that is how he killed his mother. His father is then tired to convince him into joining that he tries to strangle him. Freak saves him and he is captured. Max testifies and his father is in jail. Freak has a seizure and dies later on his birthday. Max writes a story about them.

If Freak had a perspective, it would be a different story because it would show us how he felt about the disease he had and the adventures he had with Max. He could have said how his life was going until Max changed his whole life and how good it felt with Max. He could have said how it felt to help Max when they were in trouble. Also, Freak was different than Max because he couldn't walk properly, he was small and weak but very smart. Max was big and strong, but not very smart. It showed that opposites can accomplish a lot if they work together. The only thing they helped their friendship was that both of them had weak spots where one of them had it and the other didn't. Example, Freak was smart and Max was dumb. The important part of the story where it should have had Freak's perspective was his final moments because it could have shown how did he know that if he told Max he was dying that that was going to break his hope. What type of emotions did he have. Sad that he will die young? Happy because he changed someone's life?

All in all, the book was sad. It didn't have a happy ending that I thought it would have. Though it taught me that people can be anything if they work together. Different people that have different problems and tell them about those problems learn they are the same. All problems are the same even if they look like bigger problems because they are just problems that we face everyday. This is what the book taught me.