Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment

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Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment is an ebullient book where Max and her flock tried to fit into a society filled with people trying to remove them.

While it is plausible that James Patterson wrote Maximum Ride: The angel Experiment to inform the readers on how you should rely on a group, it is much more likely that he wrote this book to show how important thinking on your own, or individual thinking, is. James Patterson does this by creating Max, a leader who has lots of bias and experiences a journey from independence to teamwork. His purpose in doing this is to to prove to his audience, predominantly teenagers and young adults, of a possible outcome if people don’t start opening your mind up.

James Patterson shows why you should think about what would be good in your mind for yourself many times in the story. An example of how individual thinking is the main idea of the story is when Max saves a girl she has never seen before from a group of boys. “The bigger kids were boys. The smaller kid in the middle was a girl… “Max wants to go be Supergirl. defender of the weak”. ”(61 - 62). In this scene, Max decides to help out a girl …show more content…

Patterson constantly is putting character foils creating a tension between Max and Ari to show how Max can get the best of a situation. An example of this is when Max bites Ari’s finger letting out her anger and gets enough time to escape and free the others. “I chomped hard on Ari’s fingers… I managed to unlatch Fang’s crate. The white coats fell on me ”(205). At this point, Max has just bit Ari’s finger because of what he has put on to her. Then Ari got distracted letting her free herself and the Flock. In this quote, Max gets the chance to bite Aris finger leaving Ari not focused because of the pain. this Gives her time to open the latch and free everybody. Freeing everybody instead of leaving by herself was the whole reason why James Patterson

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