In chapter 3 of Freak the Mighty, it describes the beginning of the friendship between Kevin and Max a friendship they both need. Why do you think the characters aren't eager to begin a friendship if they both need a friend?

She has combed and brushed her night-dark hair, and bathed rose petal sweet, and drawn white gloves on her small brown hands, and white shoes on her feet. which literary technique does the stanza demonstrat

Need ! compare and contrast your independent reading selection with one or two other selections you have read in this unit. support your response with at least two pieces of evidence from your independent reading selection. be sure to give the title and author of your selection.

She took up a scalpel and slit the monkey's abdomen, making a slow and gentle cut, keeping the blade well away from her gloved fingers. the spleen was puffed up and tough, leathery, like a globe of smoked salami. she did not see any bloody lesions inside this monkey. she had expected that the monkey's interior would be a lake of blood, but no, this monkey looked all right, it had not bled into itself. if the animal had died of ebola, this was not a clear case. she opened up the intestine. there was no blood inside it. the gut looked okay. then she examined the stomach. there she found a ring of bleeding spots at the junction between the stomach and the small intestine. this could be a sign of ebola, but it was not a clear sign. it could also be a sign of simian fever, not ebola. therefore, she could not confirm the presence of ebola virus in this animal based on a visual inspection of the internal organs during necropsy.