Gregory Heffley In 'The Long Haul'

Gregory Heffley is the main character of the story, “The Long Haul”, he enjoys staying inside and playing video games. He always looks at the bad side of things and never sees the positivity. His younger brother seems to be the favorite child and that drives Greg crazy. His mom is always getting family ideas from magazines that always turn out much worse then planned. Then she read about a very big idea. Greg wasn’t to thrilled when he heard his mom had planned a surprise road trip. His first issue is that his mom will only let him pack the bear essentials, no electronics. For greg this meant hours of life lessons from his mom and boredom. As you can see he never enjoys spending time with family, and sometimes jealous of how his brother
is treated. As the novel goes on greg starts to see the good through the bad The first occurrence of Greg's positivity is when he distracts his mom with a game so he doesn't have to do the flash cards she gave him, it turned out he enjoyed the game a little. Another time is when he finds out he gets to share a room with only his brother Rodrick, his brother, along the road trip. His mom also mentioned that the pig, his younger brother Many had one in a contest at the fair they had stopped at, would also have to stay in the room. He saw this as a great opportunity because he got a bed to himself meaning he could get a goods night rest. The final scene of his positivity is when his dad had creatig a patch for their broken sun room so rain wouldn't get in. The bad part is that it overfilled drenching his brothers, but luckily he was dry because he was sitting in the cramped back seat