故事缘于麦克斯的第一本也可能是最后一本书,他牢牢记着富立克曾教过的亚瑟王说的话,“我们都是兄弟,一切为需要帮助的人而战,对弱者温柔,对邪恶之士狠心。” 麦克斯是个孤独的孩子。他在很小的时候目睹了父亲狠心杀死了母亲,然而在法庭证人席上他哑口无言。父亲入狱,他跟外公、外婆一起连活,幼时的阴影伴随他长大,他身体强壮但思想贫乏,沉默寡言,在家他住在地窖里,重读七年级,经常遭到同学的耻笑。麦克斯一直觉得自己最被美国唾弃。在公共汽车上,黑暗室的坏孩子在布兰德的带领下挖苦他是杀手肯尼肯的没有脑袋的儿子,外公、外婆时常为他担心。 有一天,从圣路易斯搬来新的邻居:关德琳和她的残疾小儿凯文。关德琳与麦克斯的母亲年龄相仿,但凯文长得却很瘦弱,而且还得了一种奇怪的病。夜里,麦克斯窥视凯文做试验,震惊于他的创造力。 The story begins with Max’s first and probably last book, bearing in mind Arthur’s words that Fulvic once taught that “we are all brothers, all fighting for those in need, and tender for the weaker , Cruel to the wicked. ”Max was a lonely child. He had seen his father cruelly kill his mother when he was a child, yet he was speechless at the court witness. His father was imprisoned. He lived with his grandfather and grandmother. The shadow of his childhood grew up with him. He was physically strong but mentally impoverished. He was quietly living in the cellar. At home, he re-read the seventh grade and was often ridiculed by his classmates. Max has always felt that most of them were spurned by the United States. On the bus, the bad boy in the dark room, under the leadership of Brand, was sarcastic that he was the wrong son of Kenny Ken, the killer. My grandmother often worried about him. One day, a new neighbor moved from St. Louis: Kwan Delin and her disabled child, Kevin. Kudrin and Max’s mother are of similar ages, but Kevin looks thin but has a strange disease. At night, Max peeked Kevin into experimentation, shocked by his creativity.