Rodman Philbrick's Freak The Mighty

In Freak The Mighty by Rodman Philbrick, Maxwell’s mind is his biggest enemy. Maxwell lacks confidence in himself, is dependent on others and traumatized by his past. One way Maxwell’s mind is his biggest enemy is that he lacks confidence in himself. “Getting up in the class and saying stuff is not something I do.” All of the schools he has gone through, he has been placed in LD classes, at his house he is treated as a criminal just because of his infamous father, and socially he is an outcast. With the help of Freak, he starts to develop some confidence in learning and himself, but this only hurts him in the end when Freak dies.The last way Maxwell is working against his mind is that he is dependant on others. Another way Maxwell’s mind
is his biggest enemy is he is dependent on others because he can’t depend on himself, or so he thinks. He depends on Freak to do all the thinking and making all the decisions, when he should be the one making his own decisions because they all greatly affect his life. Max thinks he can get through eighth grade with freak doing all the mental work but now he’s gonna have to do his own work and he is not used to doing that. Traumatized by seeing his dad killing his mom when he’s only 4 years old makes him a little shaken up. Scared of his everyone seems to reminds him of it every day. Maxwell must fight his way through eighth grade with his own lack of self-confidence slowing him down.