The Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
This book is serious; it’s good and about
teenagers and their problems, obsession, hunger, anger, tension,.etc.
‘Na’ This book is the funniest book.
It is light- hearted comedy that will make you smile every time you turn the
page. Its outstanding way of telling stories as well as the pictures, they make
the book all the while more interesting. It is in a way mesmerizing. I started
reading the second part of the book and was mesmerized by it that I ended up
ending it yesterday only.
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The
story is of a boy named Gregory Heffley. The book
starts with Greg explaining how bad his summer vacations were with his brother
Rodrick annoying him, who knows a secret that Greg is
trying to keep. After Rodrick drops Greg off to school, but Greg finds out he
still has the Cheese Touch from last year. He gets away with passing it on to a
new kid. Later, it is clear that Greg and Rodrick are always broke, so Mom
starts a “Mom Bucks” to get Greg and Rodrick to get along
with each other. Rodrick has an upcoming science project, and that he would
prefer to do it on 'Gravity', but clearly shows no effort, and asks his family
members to do it for him.
Rodrick later
pretends to have the flu, and
after Mom and Dad leave the house, he calls every friend he knows, and has a
party. A month later, Greg notices Rowley has play money identical to that of
"Mom Bucks" and takes it home to put under his mattress. When Greg
fails to do his history homework, he must borrow an assignment from Rodrick and
pay him $20,000 in Mom Bucks Unfortunately, Mom finds out about the stolen Mom
Bucks when Rodrick tries to cash in the lot and she confiscates all of Greg's
Mom Bucks, including his real ones.
After Thanksgiving,
Rodrick's party is uncovered by a photo and he is grounded for a month. Greg is
accused of being an 'accomplice’ to Rodrick, and is banned from playing video
games for two weeks, even though he had been locked in the basement the whole
time and had nothing to do with the party. Rodrick then starts preparing for
the talent show, despite his punishment (he wasn't allowed to leave the house
and was specifically told not to go to the show). Dad then ends his punishment
two weeks early because he hated listening to Rodrick's band. After Greg hurts
Rowley by putting a dumbell in a pillow that Rowley kicks during a
sleepover, Greg must perform in the talent show with a first-grader, Scotty
Douglas, who Rowley was partners with. They don't qualify, but Rodrick's band
does.
Dad tries to
persuade to Rodrick to give up the show, but Rodrick insists on doing it, so
that he can send it to record label companies
and bail out of school so he and
Löded Diper can get noticed. During the talent show, Rodrick has his band's
performance taped so he can send it to the record companies, but the video is
rendered useless after it is found that Mom (who was taping the video) had
talked the whole time and everything she said was heard on the tape. Rodrick
accuses Greg and they get into a fight, but their parents send both to their
rooms. Later, Rodrick has spilled the beans on what happened over the summer.
Greg says that at Leisure Towers, the retirement house where their grandfather
lives, Rodrick took Greg’s diary and made a run for it, but tripped on a board
game. Greg grabbed the diary, ran to the toilet, and tried to destroy it.
Unfortunately, he found out he’s in the ladies bathroom and is pulled out.
However, Greg ends up getting popular for what he did because the story gets
extremely twisted from going to the women's bathroom in the retirement home to invading the girls' locker room in
Crossland High School.
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The story
ends with Greg helping Rodrick with his science project for school called Do
Plants Sneeze?, because he feels sorry for the video of Löded Diper at the
talent show which has been an worldwide internet hit due to his mom dancing in
it.
I must say, jeff Kinney has done an outstanding job!
