You may think that reading the back of the book that Freak the Mighty and Wonder are stories totally dissimilar. One is about two misfits that come together and make each other better. The other story is about a boy born with deformities that keep people away. However despite these differences they still have much in common. In both stories, the authors show us that everyone deserves respect, no matter what they look like. You can not judge others by the way they look. In Freak the Mighty, the author shows that you can't judge a book by its cover. In other words see what is on the inside, and don't assume what is there. In the beginning of the story the protagonist Kevin, who sometimes goes by Freak doesn't have many friends because of all his disabilities. All everybody sees is a short kid with braces all over his body. They don't know that he has a massive imagination and is extremely intelligent. Later on in the story Kevin meets Max. He and Max then become the best of friends. Max saw past all Freak’s imperfections and disabilities. He saw who he really was. Max changed the way everyone looked at Kevin and more and more people began to get to know him. It is clear that Max had a humongous positive …show more content…
The protagonist in Wonder is August. He has facial deformities and that is all people see. August was home schooled all his life until his parents got him into Beecher Prep. Everyone stared or looked away, but not Summer. She saw August sitting alone and she felt bad. Some time had passed and Summer then says that once you get to know him you can “see past the face”. More toward the middle of the story August became friends with a boy Jack who can also “see past his face”. After Summer, Jack and August start becoming friends, nobody looked at August’s face anymore, but if they did he did not care. The lesson here is clear too: One person's actions can change someone else's whole