Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Diary of a Wimpy Kid; The Third Wheel In the book, “Diary of a Wimpy Kid; The Third Wheel” by Jeff Kinney is about a boy named Greg who is trying to get a date for the Valentines day dance. I think there is a theme in the book. I think the theme is that you shouldn’t be desperate to get a girl. Greg wants a date to the dance, he just can’t get one. In his school they have these things that are called “Candy Grams.” Candy Grams are when you send someone a letter and a piece of candy. The letter should say something about how you should take that person to the dance, or if they wanted to go to the dance. Within two weeks, everyone had a date, or a Candy Gram except Greg. He was going crazy. He got so desperate that he started getting himself Candy Grams. In the end, he and his best friend Rowley, ended up asking a girl if they wanted to go as a “group of friends” and then Rowley and her started going out. Hence the name “the third wheel” As you can see, I think a theme in the book is that you shouldn’t be that you can’t be desperate to get a girl. I think that this theme is true. I believe it is true because it got Greg into a lot of trouble and may have taking the chance of him ever going out with a girl again. He got himself into making girls think he is crazy. Because he just seemed so desperate asking out every girl in school. I also think that he was choosing people way above his standards. He doesn’t ask out unpopular girls, only the popular ones. And one time he was going to ask a girl out. The girl was drinking water when he was going to do it. She knew he was going to ask her, so she kept drinking water till the late bell rang. So that is why I think Greg is desperate for girls.

Be More Chill

Aisa Radoncic “Be More Chill” In the book, “Be More Chill,” by Ned Vizzini is about a teenager named Jeremy Heere trying to be the popular kid in school. He can’t do it by just being him, so he buys this supercomputer pill that tells him how to be cool in every situation. The pill has a voice and speaks to him in his mind. The pill called, “squip” tells Jeremy how to get all the things a teenage boy would want most in life. The squip instructs him on everything from what to wear to how to talk and walk. The squip turns Jeremy from a complete geek to the coolest kid in class. I noticed in my book that Jeremy needed the squip in the beginning, but towards the end, when he uses the squip, it gets him in trouble. I think the squip gets Jeremy in trouble. For instance, when Jeremy wanted to have a conversation with his crush, Christine, the squip said, “WHAT ARE YOU DOING? LEAVE CHRISTINE ALONE. CHLOE IS GOING TO LEAD YOU TO A ROOM FOR ECSTASY-LADEN SEXUAL SHENANIGANS! REMEMBER, CHRISTINE WILL COME LATER...” Of course, Jeremy listened to the squip. He followed Chloe to the basement and Chloe’s boyfriend, a football player, ended up chasing Jeremy around the house until he lost him. This shows that what the squip said got Jeremy into trouble. Another way the squip gets Jeremy in trouble is the squip tells Jeremy to interrupt the school play and ask out Christine out. “CHRISTINE LIKES YOU MUCH MORE THAN YOU REALIZE. THAT’S WHY WE’RE DOING THIS. I WOULDN’T BE SENDING YOU OUT ON A LIMB IN FRONT OF ALL THESE PEOPLE IF I DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS GOING TO WORK.” When Jeremy did what the squip told him, he got rejected by Christine and made her furious at him. The final time Jeremy got in trouble from his squip was when the squip started to speak in spanish. Jeremy was in a bit of a pickle at a party that he went to. And when he turned to the squip for help, the squip could only speak spanish. “PATO Y JAB, JEREMY! GOLPEELO CON EL PIE EN LAS BOLAS!” Which means, “Duck and jab, Jeremy! Kick him in the balls!” Jeremy doesn’t speak spanish so he couldn’t understand what the squip was saying, so he almost got beat up for the squip’s mistake. I believe this pattern occurs because Jeremy lets it happen. He listens to whatever the squip tells him to do even if he knows that it’s wrong. I think that this shows that many teenagers of that age have a little voice in their head telling them to do the wrong thing, and they listen. I infer that Jeremy will do worse things in the near future because of the squip. As you can see, I think that the squip helped Jeremy in the past, but is making him get into a lot of trouble.

The Letter Q

Aisa Radoncic 813 “The Letter Q” In the book, “The Letter Q,” written by many different writers but edited by Sarah Moon and James Lecesne, I noticed a pattern. The pattern that I noticed is in the book, everyone (so far) gets bullied as a child, and as they get older, there life gets better and better. Here are Martin Moran, Erik Orrantia, and Arthur Levine’s stories. As a child, Martin Moran was having sexual relationships with another boy for three years until he was 15. He hated the life that he was living, he felt as if he was doing something wrong, so he tried to kill himself. He tried to do it with his mothers pills, which didn’t work, all he ended up doing was throwing up all over his bedroom floor. So he decided to take his father’s gun. He was shaking with anger as he put the gun up to his head. As he was pulling the trigger, his inner self who knew that he still wanted life must have caused the gun to shift away from his head and he just missed the bullet. He put the gun down, and started to live his life. He became a writer and moved to N.Y.C to begin his great life. When Erik Orrantia was a child, he was called really mean. He had a rough time going through his childhood, He wasn’t sure about what he was going through, he thought that there was something wrong with him. He was different than everyone else. But as he got older, he started to embrace the names that they called him. He enjoyed being gay, it was him, not something he was trying to be. Finally, when Arthur Levine was young, his parents could tell that he was gay. He was playing with dolls, and 98% of his friends were girls. His parents took this as if there was something wrong with him. They made a rule that Arthur can only hang out with girls for 2 days in a row, then he had to hang out with guys. His parents didn’t know how to handle this so they gave him little hints such as, “Is anything BOTHERING you? We will gladly pay for you to see a psychologist.” But as he got older, all that tension seemed to slowly knot away until it was completely gone. He got married to a wonderful man, and has a family. As you can see, I found a pattern in my book, which is that the writers in my book got bullied as children, but their life got better as they got older. I think this pattern occurs because people find that being gay is a bad thing and that it shouldn’t happen, so they make fun of it. I think the writer’s messages are that you shouldn’t make fun of someone just for the person that they are attracted to. I think this pattern tells us that there are so many people getting made fun of by something they cannot control, and that there are many people that have a story to tell about it.