Isolation In 'Freak The Mighty'
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Different, isolated, excluded... all of these words describe Max’s room. It’s different from his grandparent’s room because it’s a cellar, it’s isolated from their room, and excluded from the house. Strangely enough, Max feels this way about himself as well.
Throughout the entire story Max refers to himself as a “total goon” which tells the reader that he thinks of himself as dumb person and he feels different. He knows he’s not as smart as everyone else and when he’s put in all the advanced classed with Freak he feels even more unintelligent because he’s surrounded by gifted geniuses. Also, Freak adds to how ignorant Max feels whenever he makes him look up a word in his dictionary because he has trouble with spelling …show more content…
You would think that it would a good thing being told you look just like your old man, but for Max he was known as the kid with the murderous father which made him feel even more isolated. The first time anyone said he looked exactly like his father was with the Fair Gwen at the beginning of the story when she forcibly took Freak away from Max because the resemblance of him and his father was so terrifying she believed that he was him. The other time was when Max and Freak went to return Loretta’s purse and Loretta and Iggy recognized Max as Kenny’s kid.
Max being friends with Freak makes him an even bigger outsider from everyone else. In the duration of the story it’s obvious that Tony D. bullies Max more that he usually does when he’s with Freak, like when he chased them at the firework show and he also called them “Andre the Giant and the dwarf,” and usually if you are being bullied less people hang around with you which makes you feel excluded. Even Max’s father thought it was outlandish to be friends with Freak, for he said that you can “never trust a cripple.”
Different, isolated, excluded… all three of these words describe how Max feels about himself. He feels different from everyone else because he knows he’s unintelligent, he’s isolated by a shadow of his father, and he feels excluded by being bullied for being friends with Freak. The only thing unusual about this is that these words exactly describe the location of the “down
Different, isolated, excluded... all of these words describe Max’s room. It’s different from his grandparent’s room because it’s a cellar, it’s isolated from their room, and excluded from the house. Strangely enough, Max feels this way about himself as well.
Throughout the entire story Max refers to himself as a “total goon” which tells the reader that he thinks of himself as dumb person and he feels different. He knows he’s not as smart as everyone else and when he’s put in all the advanced classed with Freak he feels even more unintelligent because he’s surrounded by gifted geniuses. Also, Freak adds to how ignorant Max feels whenever he makes him look up a word in his dictionary because he has trouble with spelling …show more content…
You would think that it would a good thing being told you look just like your old man, but for Max he was known as the kid with the murderous father which made him feel even more isolated. The first time anyone said he looked exactly like his father was with the Fair Gwen at the beginning of the story when she forcibly took Freak away from Max because the resemblance of him and his father was so terrifying she believed that he was him. The other time was when Max and Freak went to return Loretta’s purse and Loretta and Iggy recognized Max as Kenny’s kid.
Max being friends with Freak makes him an even bigger outsider from everyone else. In the duration of the story it’s obvious that Tony D. bullies Max more that he usually does when he’s with Freak, like when he chased them at the firework show and he also called them “Andre the Giant and the dwarf,” and usually if you are being bullied less people hang around with you which makes you feel excluded. Even Max’s father thought it was outlandish to be friends with Freak, for he said that you can “never trust a cripple.”
Different, isolated, excluded… all three of these words describe how Max feels about himself. He feels different from everyone else because he knows he’s unintelligent, he’s isolated by a shadow of his father, and he feels excluded by being bullied for being friends with Freak. The only thing unusual about this is that these words exactly describe the location of the “down