What is Freak the Mighty about?

Answer 1

Title: FREAK THE MIGHTYAuthor: Rodman Philbrick Cover artist: David ShannonCharacters: Maxwell Kane (Mighty); Kevin (Freak, The robot man); Gram; Grim; Fair Guinevere; Kenny Kane (Killer Kane); Loretta Lee; Iggy Lee.Setting: Neighborhood nearing the New TestamentPlots/ Events:1. Maxwell "Max" Kane is a boy with low self-esteem. He lives in the basement of his house under the protection of his caring grandparents who he calls "Grim" and "Gram". Max thinks of himself as stupid and people are afraid of him because he looks like his father, "Killer Kane," a convicted murderer. A small kid, Kevin, on crutches who loves robots. Max, however, calls Kevin, "Freak".2. Max finds that people are moving into the house next door. The new neighbors turn out to be Freak and his mother Gwen, who Freak calls "The Fair Gwen". Max takes Freak to the Fourth of July fireworks, and puts Freak on his shoulders so he can see. The tough guy, Tony D. "Blade", chases the two into the pond because Freak called him a cretin. The police rescue them before Blade does any harm. After this incident, the two become friends and Freak starts riding on Max's shoulders. The two go on adventures such as going to the hospital, which Freak claims has a secret department called the "Bionics Department"3. The two goes on an 'adventure', and find a woman's purse in the sewer. They return it to the woman who is named Loretta Lee. She is the wife of Iggy Lee, the boss of the Panheads, a motorcycle gang. Iggy says that the two of them once knew Max's and Freak's father but they do not harm them because they are afraid of Max's father.4. Grim reveals to Max that his father has been put on parole. Max is shocked by this news. After Christmas Eve, Max is woken up by his father, who has come down the chimney to kidnap him. Killer Kane swears on The Bible that he didn't murder Max's mother. Later, a police car drives by Iggy Lee's house. Iggy says that Freak was leading the search for Max. Killer Kane then gets anxious and prepares to leave. He leaves Max alone, tied up in a room in the house. Loretta, shocked that Kane would do something like that to his own kid. Killer Kane sees that she's untying Max and starts to choke her. Max attempts to stop him and tell that he witnessed Kane kill his mother in the same fashion. Kane attempts to kill Max too, but Freak arrives and saves Max by squirting Kane with a squirt gun he claims is filled with sulfuric acid, when in fact, it is filled with soap, vinegar, and curry powder. Kane is arrested and put in jail.5. In the spring after the kidnap, Kevin celebrates his birthday and the birthday of Freak the Mighty, which is what Max and Kevin call themselves together. Soon after, Freak dies (from a seizure) after telling Max to record all of their adventures. Max mourns Freak for weeks but soon realizes it would not be what Freak wanted. With Loretta Lee's help, Max finishes a book about Freak and his adventures, in accordance with Freak's final wishes.Conflict/Solution: Max thought it self was a total butthead, can't read or write. But was resolve by Freak, because they became best friend and Freak start to teach Max how to read and write, Freak also very trust in Max.Theme: Friendship (or Trust)

Answer 2

Freak the Mighty is a delightful movie about a physically challenged but very bright kid who becomes friends with a physically big kid who is functionally illiterate. A great family movie. Bit of a tear-jerker.

Freak the mighty is a book about a too small kid for his brain who becomes friends with a mentally challenged kid

Answer 3

Freak is a small boy with a big brain and a big heart. Him and Maxwell find each other by a move in location of freaks family. They become best friends and go on all kinds of adventures and they eventually become "freak the mighty" together united forever, until Freak dies. A HEART WARMING STORY AND FILM.

Answer 4

About two boys who are social outcasts and they become friends. They live in a world of doing good deeds to help everyone, even though one of the boys' father is a murderer. The problem: One of the boys has a life threatening disease.

In my opinion, it is a great story.

Answer 5

Two boys---a slow learner stuck in the body of a teenage giant and a tiny Einstein in leg

braces forge a unique friendship when they pair up to create one formidable human force.

Max Kane is the narrator of the story. In the first two sentences Max states, "I never had

a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for a while, and that's the truth, the

whole truth. The Unvanquished Truth." But it is not until the novel's final page that we

learn why and how Max wrote a book about the adventures of Freak the Mighty.

Answer 6

i would answer it by sayin g freak the mighty summary is about two young boys met. and they have an adventure together.