Freak The Mighty Character Analysis

Throughout the novel Freak the Mighty, Rodman Philbrick, creates a story about newfound friendship and adventure for the two main characters, Maxwell, “Max”,Kane and Kevin,“Freak”, Dillon. If the two boys would not have become friends Max would have still just stayed in the down under all by himself all day. Secondly, Max also would not have learned that he has a brain even if he does have to search deep down for it. Finally, if the boys would not have become friends, Freak would not have become so confident in himself and he would have continued to stay inside programing computers all day. The friendship that Freak and Max developed, changed them both as individuals. Primarily, if Max and Freak had not become friends Max would have stayed without a brain and all alone in his bedroom ,“the down under”, by himself all day. ‘‘I’m just this critter hiding out in the down under drooling over my comic books or something,” (Philbrick 6). This shows how Max thought of himself before he met and became good friends with Freak. Similarly, the relationship that Freak and Max developed helped Max come out of his “shell” that he was in. The shell represents that Max was an introvert versus an extrovert going out of his way to go on
Before Freak and Max met Freak acted a lot less confident in himself. Freak played all by himself instead of going around the neighborhood to find friends like he would now. On page 53, Philbrick states,‘“Life is dangerous,” Freak says, and you can tell he’s thought a lot about this. After a while he kicks me with his little feet and says “home.”’(Philbrick 53). What this quote says about Freak is that he has become much more confident. How this friendship has changed Freak is that when he is atop Max’s shoulders he feels like he is one of King Arthur's knights on his mighty