Diary+of+Wimpy+Kid+Reviews

 __ Diary of a Wimpy Kid Reviews __ By Alex Inman In the past months, I’ve read the two //Diary of a Wimpy Kid// books, one of the same title and //DOAWK//: Rodrick Rules! Both of them star Greg Hefley, a prepubescent kid who is completely average. Nothing is unusual in his family. His mom is a mom, his dad is a dad, and his big brother torments him, like a big brother. Now the interesting thing I like about these books is the drawings. They show Greg as an average- sized boy, his mom an average-sized mom even though you never see her eyes behind her glasses, his dad: average sized. His brother has a buzz cut which is shown as a few lines coming up from his head and just looks like a real big brother, simplified. I forgot to tell about Greg’s younger brother, Manny. They make him young. He’s drawn as a very, very small person, like the size of a large rat. He is small. I think I’ve covered all of the characters so now on to the reviews. All of the //DOAWK// books are made in the form of a journal that Greg’s mom made him write in. It’s formatted like a journal too, with days of the week and months as heading for the short “chapters” in the book. I will begin with the first book of the title that has been said this whole time. //DOAWK// is about the start of Greg’s first year of middle school. In begins with the introduction of The Cheese, a moldy piece of cheese that was left on the blacktop last year. If you touched it, you would get the “Cheese Touch” which involves people not wanting to get near you. The story goes through the holidays and all of the events that happen to Greg, from the candy-less Halloween, to his mom’s accidental switch of Greg’s present and the gift to people in Goodwill. It also goes through events in school, from Greg’s comic strip being drastically changed by the school paper editor to Greg and his friend Rowley getting in a bad fight, eventually leading to Rowley eating The Cheese. When kids start looking for the Cheese, Greg defends Rowley by saying that he threw it away, then that means that he must have the Cheese Touch! But he doesn’t. That’s the first book, now the second book, //“”: Rodrick Rules!// focuses mainly on how bad Greg’s brother, Rodrick, is. It’s also Greg’s second year of middle school. The story also has a little part about Manny and how “innocent” he is, but it’s still all about Greg. In the beginning, Greg tells about his summer and the swim team that Greg’s dad makes him join every year. Then when school starts, Greg remembers that he still has the Cheese Touch, but quickly gets rid of it by touching a new kid. The story doesn’t go through the holidays as much, but there is a little holiday theme in some parts of the book. Rodrick tries to humiliate Greg at every turn, but is sometimes foiled like when he was going to tape Greg in the school play because he was going to sing, but then Greg didn’t sing. Later, Rodrick was humiliated on T.V when he played at the school talent show simultaneously to a little girl. The factor wasn’t the girl, it was his mom taping his performance backstage and dancing the whole time. Those are the highlight moments of the book there might be more, but I didn’t have the book with me at the time. So, depending on how much you like graphic novels (that’s what they’re called), you could like it, or think it’s for kids. The decision is yours. Thank you.




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