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Mood And Character Development In Freak The Mighty By Philbrick

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In “Freak the Mighty,” the author, Philbrick,creates different moods and tones to create emotions and character development. In the story, two boys named Kevin and Max meet in preschool and reunite in jr. high, when Kevin, a witty cripple, moves in next door. As Max and Kevin reunite, the author creates a mood of amity. As the team of misfits runs into trouble with a ruffian named Tony D, they find themselves working as a team to find a way out of misfortune. When a ingenious Kevin realizes that Tony D is just a belligerent, ignorant,drunken fool he stands up to him and sarcastically calls Tony D a cretin. He retaliates defensively and superior Freak has to define his clever word of choice. A tone command expresses the situation of burden

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