Examples Of Morquio Syndrome In Freak The Mighty Freak

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Question How did freak overcome his disability? In freak the mighty freak has a disease called Morquio syndrome. Freak gets around it and max never new in the book that he was going to die or what disease he had. Freaks doctor tried to trick freak when he was little but it didn't work. In the end she told him that he was getting a new robotic body to trick him because he was so smart. Morquio syndrome is when your body grows on the inside but not the outside. That was what freak said in the book. Freak knows that he has this disease but his doctor tricked him and was saying that he was going to have a new robotic body. When freak dies this is when they said that he was going to get a new body. Max is so mad at everybody he feels

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