What is the extent of Loretta’s injury? in freak the mighty

Loretta Lee is injured after attempting to free Max from the ropes his father, "Killer Kane," tied him up with. She finally unties Max and frees him, only to be choked by Kane when he returns. Max is watching his father drain the life out of Loretta, and he cries and screams for him to stop, but Kane doesn't let go and pushes him out of the way. Only when Max shouts that he saw Kane kill his mother does Kane stop and listen to his son, letting Loretta go. As Max is reliving the moment that his father killed his mother, he relays the details as Kane shouts at him to stop. Kane then begins to choke Max instead. Kevin breaks in and saves the day by shooting Kane in the eyes with acid. After escaping to the police, they find out that Loretta is alive and okay, but she has a bruised neck from where Kane strangled her.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.