By: Brandon Lepley
Chapter #8 (Close Encounter of the Turd Kind): In the beginning of chapter 8, Freak and Max were driven home by a couple of nice police officers and Grim and Gram came running out to meet Max as he got out of the police cruiser. Gram told Max that she was extremely worried when she saw the blue lights. When Max got inside Grim and Gram gave him a blanket, Gram gave him a bowl of ice cream and Grim gave Max a cup of coffee. The next morning, Max was woken up by Freak (all energized and ready to “Save fair maidens and to slay dragons”). Towards the end of the chapter Freak says this confusing word to Max “Archetype”. Freak pulled out his dictionary “like Arnold Schwarzenegger pulling out a machine gun or something, that’s the fierce look he gets with a book in his hands.” After they find the definition Freak tells Max how dinosaurs had tiny brains for huge bodies and how they ruled for a hundred million years.