Archetype In Freak The Mighty
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In the book, Freak The Mighty, by Rodman Philbrick, Kevin demonstrates the International Baccalaureate Learner profile trait of an inquirer. For example, when Max asks what “archetype” means, Kevin pulls out a dictionary out of his knapsack and tells Max to look it up. “ I go, ‘What’s an archetype?’ and Freak sighs and shakes his head and reaches into his knapsack for his dictionary … and I’m looking for words underlined with red ink because that’s what Freak does the first time he looks up a word he makes a line under it .. there are whole pages like that.” (45-46). Therefore, this shows that Kevin is an inquirer because Kevin is showing his compassion for academically learning words through the dictionary. In other words, Kevin’s curiosity