In Chapter 8, Maxwell describes his summers. He says he usually reads comic books or watches television all summer, but now that Freak is there, he can't even sleep in. Freak must be very ambitious because he usually has Max carry him around, but in order to get Max out of bed, he has to drag himself over to Max's basement next door in order to wake him up each morning. If Freak didn't make the effort to crawl, hop, or drag himself over to Max's each morning, he would have to wait for Max to wake up and go get him. Freak will not wait for Max for any reason because he wants to get out into the world and go on adventures every day. This is great because it is Freak who motivates Max not to vegetate, as he says, and actually do some interesting things with his summer vacation. Max describes the process as follows:
"Each and every morning the little dude humps himself over and he bangs on the bulkhead, wonka-wonka-wonka, he may be small but he sure is noisy. 'Get outta bed, you lazy beast! There are fair maidens to rescue! Dragons to slay!' which is what he says every single morning, exactly the same thing—" (44).
Freak doesn't stop there. As he waits for Max to eat his breakfast, he's continually telling him to hurry up so they can get outside and do something. They do this same thing every single day in the summer, which is beneficial for both of them because it gets them outside and enjoying each other. Freak gets to have a horse to carry him everywhere and Max gets to learn interesting things from Freak's knowledgeable brain.
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