Freak The Mighty is a novel by Rodman Philbrick, about two friends and their adventures together. Another book, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, is a novel by E.L. Konigsburg, about a girl named Margaret Rose Kane and how she protects the towers that her uncles made. She protects the towers because she loves them a lot. Max, the main character in Freak The Mighty and Margaret, the main character in The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, navigate their relationships with others and find acceptance in their communities in different ways. In Freak The Mighty, Max navigates his relationship with Kevin, a kid who is smart, but he is small by first starting off thinking that Kevin is weird because he “pulls the trigger on that crutch and makes a weapon noise, and he goes, ‘Then die, earthling, die!’” (Freak The Mighty 9). …show more content…
And they became friends, and together they became “Freak The Mighty” (Freak The Mighty 40) and you can tell Max really loved Kevin because when Kevin died Max wanted to be alone. Later in the story, Max finds acceptance in his community because a lot of people feel bad that he lost his best friend and even Tony D., a bully who torments Kevin and Max because of their disabilities was nice to Max. In The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, Margaret navigates her relationship with her uncles at the beginning of the story, hating them a little bit because they didn’t decide that she would stay with them when her parents went to Peru. After her uncles picked her up from Camp Talequa, the camp Margaret was going to, she got happier because she says that her uncles had walked all the way to get her. You can tell the uncles loved her because they say ”’She’s my sweet Margaret,’ Uncle Alex said. ‘Mine too,’ Uncle Morris said.” (The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place