Blog #1 Nicholas Littlefield

Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney, fiction

              Being a kid can really stink. And no one knows this better than Greg Heffley, who finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. In Diary of a Wimpy Kid, author and illustrator Jeff Kinney introduces us to an unlikely "hero." As Greg says in his diary:
"Just don't expect me to be all "dear diary" this and "dear diary" that.
Luckily for us, what Greg Heffley says he won't do and what he actually does are two very different things.

Question #1: Describe the main characters
 Greg Heffley is a rather selfish boy that lives with a dysfunctional family. His older brother, Rodrick is always giving Greg a hard time and whenever Rodrick does something bad, for example he breaks a glass vase, he blames it on Greg, who gets punished. Greg's younger brother Manny is spoiled rotten, Susan and Frank Heffley, the mother and father, are always babying Manny and never ever punish him, because if they do, Manny throws a huge tantrum; this one time when Greg opened the disc slot in his gaming system, he found a giant chocolate chip cookie inside, and of course, it was Manny who had stuffed the cookie into the system, and when Greg told Susan that Manny stuffed a cookie into his gaming system, Susan said:
"Manny is only 3! He doesn't know what he's doing!"

Question #2: Does the main character change at the end?
Yes, Greg changes at the end of the book. In the beginning, Greg had a friend named Rowley Jefferson, who is childish and somewhat short minded, and Greg normally can't stand Rowley, but something about their relationship just "works." Rowley is always visiting Greg's house and whenever he does, all they do is play video games, and at this one point is the book, Greg and Rowley were playing a racing game and Greg tells the reader that the only way to pass Rowley, is to give the vehicle the the player selected some goofy name and when the player passes Rowley's car, he breaks up laughing, which Greg thinks is annoying. But towards the end Greg learns to respect Rowley more and everything turns out okay. That is, until the next book!