Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

The story that I have read is "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days" by Jeff Kinney. It is the fourth book of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. The main character of the story is Greg Heffley. This book is about how Greg Heffley spends his summer.

The story starts off with Greg expecting to stay home all summer and do nothing but play video games. His mom urges him to try to get out of the house, but he doesn't buy it because he's learnt from experience.

When he and Rowley go to Rowley's country club, they bring a girl, Trista, along, but then she starts talking to some lifeguard and ignores the people who took her there. One unlucky day, Rowley's dad shows up at Greg's house and expects Greg to pay for all the smoothies he's ordered at the country club. Greg and Rowley start a lawn mowing business. A customer shows up and Greg gives her bad quality lawn mowing. Then his dad comes and finishes the job, but the lady stiffs Greg.

All these unfortunate events and more make him want to stay home for the rest of the summer. But as with all his plans, everything goes exactly the opposite.

The following are the character traits of Greg Heffley:

·        Understanding. Greg is a scheming, enterprising, and understanding teenager, who seems to understand where he fits in the society, though he would love the chance to make himself popular.

·        Lazy. Greg is also a lazy student as he prefer to stay home all day and play with his video games instead of socializing. He also doesn’t like playing sports which makes him less active of a student and lazy.

·        Loner. Greg doesn’t like socializing and is socially awkward. Greg has only one friend and his name is Rowley. At times, he likes to act weird as well.

·        Selfish. In my opinion, Greg is very selfish. Most of what he does benefits himself and not others. Even though Greg is selfish most of the time, there are times when he does nice things for people.

Choong Kee Sam

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30 January 2014