Rowley then changes topics to his first sleepover with Greg, where he pees his pants after they got scared by a noise outside, which turns out to be Greg's brother Rodrick. He writes that he likes Greg for "doing hilarious things and playing wacky pranks," then provides minor details about Greg's family. Rowley starts the biography with a chapter titled "Early Life," and skips ahead to when he first met Greg in fourth grade. Rowley complies, and changes the main character to Greg and the title of his diary from Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid to Diary of Greg Heffley by Greg Heffley's Best Friend Rowley Jefferson. Greg then comes up with the idea that Rowley's journal should be Greg's biography, since he plans to be rich and famous. In the second entry, Rowley shows his diary to Greg, who accuses Rowley of copying him. Rowley starts his diary by describing his family and then explaining that he started writing in one because his best friend, Greg Heffley, owns one as well. Rowley is 12 years and a half old in his diary. A sequel, titled Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure was released on August 4, 2020, delayed from an initial release date of April 7, 2020. Unlike the main-series books, which are written from the perspective of Greg Heffley, Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid is written from the perspective of Greg's best friend, Rowley Jefferson, acting as Greg's biographer. Graphic novels like these use a visual language of comics and drawings to tell stories and convey the narrator’s state of mind or private imaginative world.Print (hardcover),Print (paperback), Kindle, audiobook ĭiary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal is a spin-off of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney. Diary of a Wimpy Kid is also part of a wave of popular and influential graphic novels, such as Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis (2000), which tells the story of a young Iranian girl growing up in pre-revolutionary Tehran, and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home (2006), a family memoir. With its intricate depiction of the social world of Greg’s middle school and his quest for popularity, Diary also recalls non-fiction works on the social lives of teenagers like Rosalind Wiseman’s Queen Bees and Wannabes (2002), which emphasize the importance of social relationships and “fitting in” for teenage life in American middle schools and high schools. All these narratives share a common interest in a young person’s transition from childhood to the world of adult responsibilities. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1951) or Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games series (2008), which focus on teenage or young adult characters who experience various forms of physical or mental transformation on their way to adulthood. More modern coming-of-age stories include novels like J. Classic examples of the genre first known as Bildungsroman-literally a “novel of education”-include Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847) and Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield (1850). Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a coming-of-age story, charting Greg Heffley’s social, intellectual, and emotional development over the course of his first year of middle school.
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