The book itself is Greg’s diary that he writes in daily. Each page is a different diary entry that he writes himself. So the entire book is written from Greg’s perspective. You will notice that when you read the book, Greg describes his emotions and there isn’t any other perspectives it is written from. Everything comes from Greg. This edition of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series takes part around Christmas time. The plot is scattered as Greg tells his stories of each day. The book starts out regarding the arrival of Christmas and whether Greg will be on the “naughty or good list”. Susan, his mother buys a doll called “Santa’s Scout” and she tells her children it watches them and reports back to Santa. Rodrick uses it to taunt his brother, …show more content…
Greg decides to take all the punishment, thinking he would just have to clean the walls, but the real punishment was a trip to the police station. At this point, a blizzard has kept the Heffley family inside of their house. This results in a power outage that spoils the food they have and causes a flood in the basement. Frank, Greg’s father, is “trapped” in a hotel near his workplace where he had electricity, food and a hot tub in his bathroom. Meanwhile the rest of the Heffley family was living in a state of hunger and boredom with nothing to do or eat. Then Rowley comes over and tells them that his house along with the rest of the neighborhood has electricity with the exception of Greg’s house. Greg then checks their electricity box to find all power has been shut off for every room except for Manny, Greg’s little brother. He found Manny chilling in his bedroom with food, heat, and toys without telling his family with an excuse that he was never taught how to tie his shoes. They turn the power back on and Greg’s father calls them and announces the roads are clear and he can return home. The next day comes Christmas and Greg, to his surprise is featured on the newspaper for shoveling up the walkway leading up to the Church which allowed a soup kitchen to open. But, he only did it to get a tag he left on the giving tree requesting money. Of
First off, the protagonist, Greg, is a very sarcastic character. For example, “well, this will be great” (17). This is important because it shows that Greg is a sarcastic protagonist. This is also important because it makes people like the protagonist more in a funny way. For example, “mom just wouldn’t stop bringing up these stupid games” (63). This is important because it shows the protagonist usually has a funny side to his phrases. This is also important because it shows the protagonist being funny as written out by the author. The main protagonist Greg is a very sarcastic character.
The main character and author of the diary is Greg Heffley. He has a wild imagination and thinks he will get everything he wants in life, even though he doesn’t want to work. Greg has two brothers, Rodrick and Manny. Rodrick is Greg’s older brother and is not the sharpest tool in the shed, while Manny is younger than Greg and is the spoiled child out of the three. Greg’s parents are Frank and Susan Heffley. Greg’s mom always wants to do stuff as a family, while his dad could care less.
Bud is a well-mannered and well-read young boy for the age of ten. He would also go to the library to visit Ms. Hill. Ms. Hill was the librarian who would always help him find books and she sometimes had a snack for him in a brown paper bag. When he ran away from his foster parents, the Amoses. Bud ran to the library to sleep in the basement. However, when he got there the windows were locked so he slept under the Christmas tree with his suitcase with all his belongings and his blanket. While sleeping, his friend, Bugs jumps on him and asks him if he wants to get on a train and head
Greg gets caught in a lot of situations that makes everyone turn against him. A lot of small things happen accidentally that end up turning into bigger problems along the way. Since he’s an easy target to blame for everything the family puts all the pressure on him to fix it. However for the sake of their daughter. They eventually
If you go buy it for me and give them my address. Come back with the man and I will give you a shilling, but if you come back in less than 5 minutes and I will give you half a crown. The young lad did as told and received his prize for doing this for kind Scrooge. The man carrying the turkey said you will need a cab to transport this. Then, with the turkey Scrooge paid a cab to take him to his coworker’s
Greg is the main character in the story who reveals many of his characteristics throughout the story. The point where Greg revealed most of his characteristics was when and after he first met Lemon Brown and they talked about his treasure. From beginning to end, Greg is passionate, he is caring and helpful, and in the end, he learns something about himself. In the beginning, Greg was shown to have low grades.
During Christmas time, everyone bought each other a gift. Despite his memories at his home, Josh begins to think about it as Christmas draws near. Nevertheless, Joey writes a letter to their home, to tell their
It is Christmas Eve, and Scrooge is at his business.a few people come by to business. One of these people is Fred scrooge's nephew,but fred invites to have dinner with his family. Then two businessmen come in who are collecting money for charity, but again Scrooge rejected to give the gentlemen anything. After the men had left, Bob asks Scrooge to take Christmas off. Scrooge allows Bob to have Christmas Day as a holiday, but insists that he should be back at work earlier the next day. Bob leaves to go home.
Once upon a time, on christmas eve, Scrooge was counting houses in the cold, bleak and biting winter. He heard people in the court outside going up and down, beating their hands on their breast, and stamping their feet on their pavement stone trying to warm themselves up. Scrooge wanted to keep an eye on his clerk who was in a gloomy cell and was copying letters. Scrooge had a small
The readers first impression of Greg is an immature, self pitting, boy with a twisted sense of humour. They get this impression from the authors use of first person narration, the reader gets to experience Greg's innermost thoughts and observe how he honestly perceives and interprets the world as well as reflect on the past.
Diary of wimpy of a wimpy kid: The gateway by Jeff Kinney. Gateway is about the Heffleys go on a vacation and all this bad stuff happen to the family. Greg (The main character) he get most worst stuff happen to him. From Greg’s safety issues on the airplane to sneaking out of their hotel the Heffley's have it all. The big idea of stress runs through the entire book, Greg has stress whether it can make hido bad choices or innocent decisions or even some where he is worried about his safety.
Self expression and discoverment is key in the course of growing up, allowing for a child to get to know oneself. During Christmas, Scout is continuously, ridiculed about her actions by family members. Scout is told by her Aunt that she should, “behave like a sunbeam” (108). This simile comparing behavior to a “sunbeam” enhances the idea that children are meant to be rays of sunlight that brighten others day not be an embarrassment. Sunbeams represent cheerfulness, not trouble. There is no space for failure or individuality. Her Uncle even goes on describing her actions as “obstreperous” and “disorderly” (113). Apparently she is too noisy and does not act right. She is not allowed to be silly or participate in quarrel taking away her worldliness.
Heffley family use to go to the Corny’s Restaurant in order to spend time together. Susan plans to go on a road trip altogether in order to celebrate her mother Meemaw’s 90th birthday party. Susan takes everybody’s phone in order to maintain integrity and love within the family. They go altogether to a country fair. When Greg and Rodrick sneaks out from their motel to go to the gaming expo then, their parents get worried and calls the police. When they see their children on TV then Susan immediately goes to the gaming expo and scolds Greg and Rodrick for their deviant acts. Greg feels very sorry for his acts. When Susan loses her hope to reach Meemaw’s party on time, then everybody works together to reach at Meemaw’s party on time by facing the obstacles in between their trip. The movie is all about Heffley family which shows that family is very important social institution where everyone interacts and share their feelings with each other to increase and maintains the love and harmony within the
This book is about a boy named Greg his mother buys him a journal but it is really a dairy hints the title diary of a wimpy kid. Greg and his friend Rowley are going to middle school it talks about their adventures through middle school they run in a lot of conflicts throughout the story such as making fun of teenagers on Halloween night they end up making it to Greg’s grandma´s house and lock the door and stay in Greg’s grandma´s house thats just one example of them doing stupid things and getting them in trouble.This book was pretty much telling you about a kid´s life because he is the one writing in the dairy and you are reading it you are reading Greg’s life story well his time with his best friend and his middle school career. This book
about a kid that is wimpy and there is a book series about it. So the one I'm reading Diary of a wimpy kid double down and Greg Heffley is the protagonist of the series and in Double Down is about when Greg’s mom wants him to be creative and stop playing video games all day long. Soon in the story, the seagulls come and attack the neighborhood and eat up all of the gummy worms and Rowley gets scared and runs away. In the story, greg finds some chocolate that his mom told everyone not to eat. He ate it all anyway and told Rowley to bring some more chocolate to make it look like he didn't eat any of it. Rowley had the chocolate melted all over his hands by the time he got to Greg’s house. Rowley says he has a friend that has a lot of chocolate