Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment Themes
Family
The kids in Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment don't exactly have the most conventional of families. First of all, they're mutants. In their case, this means they were raised in a terrible laborato...
Lies and Deceit
The flock members in Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment get caught up in a web of lies when they fly to the School in order to save Angel after she's taken by the Erasers. It turns out that a lot o...
Violence
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment may be a young adult novel, but that doesn't mean that it's full of ponies with ridiculously sugary names frolicking through a field. The truth is that the flock...
Foreignness and 'The Other'
With a cast of hybrids, it's no surprise that many of the characters in Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment are outsiders who don't exactly blend into society. As hybrids, the flock members and the...
Freedom and Confinement
Max and her friends in Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment aren't the kind of birds (or avian-human hybrids, to be more precise) who are content sitting around in a gilded cage—especially when tha...
Fate and Free Will
Destiny isn't a word to throw around lightly, but in Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment, Max has to figure out if the voice in her head is telling the truth and she's really destined to save the wo...
Courage
Max and her friends in Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment might just be children, but they have to deal with some pretty harrowing situations—and after a lifetime of this, they are undaunted in t...
Truth
Because the main characters in Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment are super top-secret science experiments, they don't know a lot about their own origins. When Max and her friends realize that ther...