#DIARY OF A WIMPY KID RODRICK RULES HOW TO#

Greg's three-year-old brother who would do anything to tell on Greg. Greg’s grandmother shows favoritism toward Manny, Greg’s younger bother, and his grandfather shows favoritism toward Greg.Think he's in enough of a crisis? Well, think again. Still, she encourages Greg and Rodrick to play the game together. In the game, she keeps Greg from buying Meade and doesn’t support his killing of so many monsters. His mother went with Greg to Leland’s house to watch Leland (a neighborhood baby sitter), Rowley and Greg play Magick and Monsters. When his rudeness hurts his mother, she no longer requires him to keep his promise not to lie. This lie made him brush his teeth.īecause Greg has promised his mother to be honest, he goes around being rude to others (honest from his perspective). When he was young, she deceived him by pretending to call the dentist and ask about dentures because Greg refused to brush his teeth. He blames the reason he lies on his mother.

Greg thinks this is one way she gets back at him. She writes a parenting column for a local newspaper and discusses Greg’s failures and problems, using his name. His mother does not forget his “screwups” and reminds him of them. Everyone else wears swim trunks, and Greg is teased for wearing the racing trunks. When his father can’t stand the relatives in his house on Thanksgiving, he turns up the thermostat, and they eventually leave.įor swim practice, Greg’s mother makes Greg wear skimpy racing trunks that used to belong to Rodrick. When Greg needs a middle school paper completed, his father tells him to do it himself. Their father can’t stand the idea of Rodrick not writing a good paper for school, so he rewrites and types all of Rodrick’s papers. Instead of telling teens to leave his property, he puts on classical music via a boom box, and soon they all leave. His father goes to the mall on Saturdays and takes Greg with him, not to spend time together, but to get away from the noise that Rodrick’s band makes at the house. His father sneaks out of watching romantic movies with his wife so he can work on his battlefield. His father doesn’t like when Rowley comes over because he thinks Rowley is clumsy and doesn’t want him destroying his miniature Civil War battlefield in the basement. Greg’s father forces him to join the swim team, which Greg hates. In the end, Greg realizes that Rodrick isn’t nice to him, but Greg doesn’t want his brother to fail science because he didn’t turn in a science project therefore, Greg does the project for him. The original story that Rodrick told was placed in the women’s bathroom in a retirement home but as one person tells another, the place becomes the bathroom in the high school girls’ locker room. Instead of being teased and humiliated at school, guys treat him well, and he is suddenly popular. The next time their parents leave town, the boys have to stay with their grandfather.īecause Greg won’t videotape Rodrick’s band at the talent show, Rodrick tells everyone about Greg’s embarrassing secret. When Rodrick throws a party because their parents are gone for the weekend, he locks Greg in the basement for the duration but then makes Greg help him clean after it is over.

#DIARY OF A WIMPY KID RODRICK RULES HOW TO#

Rodrick shows Greg how to only partially fill the bags so they run out of bags before the job is done and are paid for each bag. The one time Greg compliments his brother is when they have to rake leaves for their grandmother and are being paid per bag. The only person he can’t trick or bully is his brother Rodrick. He is OK with copying other people’s papers, but won’t buy an assignment from anyone unless he is desperate. He attempts to get out of studying by sitting next to smart kids and out of book reports by writing about short stories instead of books. To get rid of the Cheese Touch, which he got at the end of the last journal and makes classmates run from him, he gives it to an unsuspecting new kid at the school. To get out of swim practice, he hides in the locker room.

Greg spends a lot of time getting out of things. Rodrick holds this embarrassing secret over Greg and forces him to do many things because of it. Too late, Greg realizes he is in the women’s bathroom. After Rodrick finds Greg’s first journal, Greg gets it back and hides in the bathroom at his grandfather’s retirement center to keep Rodrick from getting it again. From the beginning to the end of it, Greg has a difficult time with his older brother, Rodrick, who is a bully. Gregory “Greg” Heffley’s mother buys him a second diary, which he calls a journal.

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