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Freak the Mighty Flashcards

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What is the theme?

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  • Friendship:facing challenges together
  • Truth:About Kevin’s condition
  • Emotion:Anger:Sadness
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Who are the main characters?

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The protagonists are Maxwell Kane and Kevin Avery (Freak the Mighty)

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Who are the supporting characters?

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  • Tony D.
  • Grim
  • Gram
  • Gwen Avery
  • Kenny Kane (Killer Kane)
  • Loretta Lee
  • Iggy
  • Mrs. Donelli(English teacher)
  • Mrs. Addison(Principle)
  • Dr. Spivak(Kevin’s doctor)
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What are Kevin Avery’s problems?

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Kevin Avery has a growth problem and has been teased by classmates because of it.

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What are Maxwell Kane’s problems?

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Maxwell Kane has a learning disorder and he has a large and similar appearance to his father, Killer Kane.

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What are the lessons we learn in Freak the mighty?

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Even though both Kevin and Max had their problems, they were always able to get through them with courage. Together they were stronger, smarter, faster, and braver.

Friendship and platonic love can break down many barriers.

From being Kevin Avery’s friend, Max’s life changed forever.

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Describe Kevin Avery

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Kevin is a very smart boy with a growth disorder.

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Describe Maxwell Kane

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Max is a large boy being raised by his grandparents after his mother’s death and father’s imprisonment

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What is the climax?

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Kenny Kane comes back to the basement to find Kevin trying to rescue Max. Kevin then threatens Kenny Kane with “acid”. Kevin douses Kenny’s eyes with the “acid”, then chases them outside where the cops are.

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What is the rising action?

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Kenny Kane gets released from prison, and immediatly finds his son. He soon kidnaps Max, and takes him to a old lady’s house where he is tied against a boiler.

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Where is the story set?

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  • The down under
  • Max’s house
  • Freak’s house
  • New Testaments
  • Millpond
  • Freak’s hospital
  • The school/Max and Freak’s classroom
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What is the falling action?

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Freak dies, and Max finds out the truth about his disease.

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What is the resolution?

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Max stays in the down under for multiple weeks,and missing Kevin’s funeral. He remembers what Kevin told him to do, and he begins to write a book containing all of their adventures together.

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Decribe Kenny Kane.

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He’s very tall, has large eybrows, and big feet. He wants Max to believe that he didn’t kill his wife,Annie.Hes selfish, religious, and powerful.

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Decribe Fair Gwen

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She has long brown hair and sh’s very beautiful. She wants her son to be safe and alive. She was Max’s mother’s friend and mother mother of Kevin Avery.

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Decribe Grim.

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He looked old and had saggy skin. Grim loved Max like a son and wanted his actual father, KIller Kane, to be in prison. Grim doesn’t drink and was in the army 30 years ago.

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Decribe Gram.

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Gram worred a lot and got happy easily. She wanted to see Max grow up as a good person and wanted to have Killer Kane in prison.

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Where did Max sit when it was Freak’s funeral?

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Max stayed in the down under for weeks after Freak’s death

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Why did Freak lie about getting a bionic body?

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Freak wanted a hope. He didn’t want his condition to interfeer with MAx and his friendship.

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Who is telling the story?

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Maxwell is the narrator of the story.

21
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Max sees Freak for the first time at daycare, what did he think?

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He thinks Freak is fierce, but he thinks his crutches are cool and the leg braces look even cooler.

22
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What observasion does Max makes about Freak?

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Max says Freak talks “…right out of a dictionary. So smart you can hardly believe it.

23
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Why does Max cry after having dinner with Freak and Fair Gwen?

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Max cried because he was happy.

24
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After rescuing Freak and Max from the pond muck, what does the police say about Max?

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He identifies him as Kenny Kane’s son.

25
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When the police officers ask for the boys’ names after rescuing them, what name does Kevin give the police?

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He says “Freak the Mighty”.

26
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What does Max think about rescuing Freak?

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He thinks he did not rescue Freak; rather, Freak rescued him with his genius brain.

27
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What secret does Max promise to keep about the Medical Research building?

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Inside is a secret laboratory called The Experimental Bionics Unit. At some future time Freak will enter the lab and become the first bionically improved human.

28
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What is the treasure Max and Freak fin in the storm drain?

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The treasure is a purse belonging to Loretta Lee.

29
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How did the treasure get into the storm drain?

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Freak tells Max he saw one of Tony D.’s punks stuff it in the sewer.

30
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What type of people live in the Testaments?

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Poor people and drug addicts live there.

31
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Why does Max like Freak riding on his shoulders?

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He likes having a really smart brain on his shoulders, helping him think.

32
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Why does Iggy ley Max and Freak leave without messing with them.

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he did not want to take the chance that Killer Kane would find out he was messing with his kid.

33
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What does Freak teach Max that no one else could?

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Freak has been showing Max how to read a whole book, and it all makes sense.

34
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Why does Freak need a Bionic body?

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Freak is growing on the inside but not on the inside.

35
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While Max is wrapping christmas presents he hears shouting. Why are Gram and Grim shouting?

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Grim wants to get a gun to protect his family, but Gram doesn’t want a gun in the house

36
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What does Max’s father tell him is the truth?

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He says he never killed anybody, and that is the truth.

37
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Where does Killer Kane take Max?

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He takes Max to Iggy and Loretta’s apartment in the New Testaments.

38
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Who first comes to help Max escape from his father?

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Loretts comes but gets strangled by Killer Kane.

39
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What does Max remember as he sees his father strangling Loretta?

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He remembers seeing his father killing his mother.

40
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How does Killer Kan e react to Max’s memory about his mother’s death?

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He tells Max he was only four years old and that he could not possibly recall the event.

41
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What does everyone say will happen to killer Kane?

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Everyone keeps saying that this time they’ve got Killer Kane where they want him, for violation of parole, violation of restraining order, abduction of a minor, and two counts of attempted murder. This time he’ll be in prison for good.

42
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Why is Freak’s birthday like two birthdays ?

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Freak’s birthday is like two because not only is it Freak’s, Freak the Mighty is almost a year old,too.

43
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What happens to Freak?

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Freak gets a seizure and is taken to the hospital

44
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What does Max take to the hospital?Why?

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Max takes the old ornithopter bird,figuring maybe Freak will get a chance to look out the window and see it flying by.

45
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Freak gives Max a book. What does he want Max to do with it?

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Max recieves a book from Freak with empty pages. Freak wants Max to fill it with their adventures.

46
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How does Freak die?

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Dr. Spivak tells Max that Freak’s heart was too big for his body.

47
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How does Max feel when he goes back to school?

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Max hated every minute of it, especially how people felt sorry for him as if it were him that died.

48
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What does Max write with the empty book?

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Max writes Freak the Mighty.

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