![]() When his mother punishes Greg, she takes a few days to figure out his punishment. When his father punishes Greg for doing something wrong, he throws whatever is in his hands at Greg. His parents let his older brother listen to heavy metal music with parental warnings on them, but not Greg. To show Greg that he shouldn’t have destroyed his younger brother’s snowman, his father destroys the enormous snowman-base that Greg and Rowley made. He fills up a trash can with water and throws it at teenagers who walk past their house. ![]() Greg thinks his dad is smart but doesn’t have common sense and isn’t capable of dismantling Greg’s game system. When his father shuts off his console and tells him to go outside, Greg goes to Rowley’s house and plays video games. His father badgers him about not playing video games and doing something that requires physical movement. When he tells her that he did the right thing, once again, not going into any details, she takes him out for ice cream.įrom Greg’s perspective, his father is not normal because he gets up early on Saturdays to clean the house. As a result, Greg does what is right for him, not others. When Greg has a personal problem, his mother does not ask for details but tells him it’s important to do the right thing. After his parents argue, he is not given the dollhouse. When Greg asks for a Barbie dollhouse for Christmas (he wants to use it as a fort for his soldiers), his mother is OK with him experimenting with different toys. But when he destroys the entire performance by not singing and throwing apples at a classmate, his mother tosses the flowers in the trash on their way out. His mother brings a bouquet of flowers to give to Greg after the play. After he pits his father and mother against each other, they argue, but he still has to go out for the play. His mother uses her authority to force Greg to go out for the school play. ![]() Although his class now flees his cheese touch, he and Rowley resume hanging out together.įrom Greg’s point-of-view, his mother is seen as crazy for wanting him to write his feelings in a diary, but he appreciates her help when she steps in to keep a chain-saw guy from chasing him on Halloween night. But later, when his classmates ask how the cheese under the basketball hoop disappeared and Greg knows that a group of older bullies made Rowley eat it, he tells his classmates that he (Greg) threw the cheese away. As a result, Rowley stops hanging out with him. One day, Greg goes too far and lets Rowley take the blame for chasing kindergartners all the way home, instead of walking them home, as a Safety Patrol person should. All the mean things that Rodrick does to Greg, Greg does to Rowley, along with a few ideas of his own. They became friends because Greg felt sorry for Rowley. When that happens, Greg goes to someone else’s house and plays video games. They do unforgivable things, such as telling him to stop playing video games and go outside. He believes that his parents don’t understand him. Greg’s older brother, Rodrick, plays practical jokes on him Greg thinks his younger brother, Manny, is spoiled. Then they have it.Īt home, Greg is a middle child. If you touch it, you have the cheese touch until you touch someone else. The cheese touch is a middle school ailment similar to cooties that comes from touching an old piece of cheese that rests beneath the basketball hoop on his school’s playground. ![]() ![]() In handwritten type and through the use of cartoon illustrations, Greg details his day-to-day life as a middle school student and gives his opinion on bullying, why girls like boys, where to sit on the first day of class, how to draw cartoons and numerous other topics, such as the cheese touch. Greg Heffley decides to keep a journal, not only because his mother wants him to, but also because he wants something he can give to people who ask him questions once he is rich and famous. ![]()
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