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Compare And Contrast Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
How often do you read a book that is almost identical to the movie? Not very often, right? Well, it wasn't that way for Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney.
The movie and book had a lot more similarities than I thought they would. They used some of the same quotes, and a lot of they same scenes. The book and the movie both had the play in it. They both had the scene where Greg went out for wrestling. The were very similar, but they also had some differences. In the book Greg created Zoo-Wee-Mama, but in the movie Rowley created it.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid is about a boy named Greg Heffley. Greg is just starting middle school, and he’s not exactly looking forward to it. He doesn’t want to deal with all the morons and jerks throughout
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