Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Essay

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If there is one kid who can make you laugh with his matter-of-fact, no-nonsense one-liners, it is Greg Heffley, the protagonist of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney. This middle-schooler is quirky but adorable, naughty but relatable, whacked out but supremely cute. Most importantly, for all his ‘grown up’ ideas and philosophies, he’s still very much a kid, and a naïve one at that. Loaded with intelligent, clean middle-school humour, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series acquaints you with a kid who is dead certain that one day he will be rich and famous. This is also one of the reasons why he decides to maintain a ‘journal’ (he doesn’t like to refer to it as a ‘diary’ because that makes it sound too frivolous), so that one day he can share