Summarizer:
As the story unfolds Greg and Rowley get back from trick or treating and he decides for next year he is just not going to do trick or treating because they get sprayed with a fire extinguisher. On the way to school the next morning, he notices grandma’s house is toilet papered and wonders who could have played a trick on grandma. Greg the comedian he thinks heis plays a joke on Preston Mudd because Preston gets athlete of the month and Greg changes his name on his award to P. Mudd so, that everyone in the school could make fun of Preston.
They are getting ready for a play and Greg is deciding what part he should play, but pretty much everything is taken. So, he chooses to be a tree because they just have to stand there and not say a word. During rehearsal, the teacher assigns a part for the three trees…a singing part and Greg is more worried about a classmate (Rodrick) being in the audience to see Greg humiliate himself. The big embarrassment came when on the day of the play and the three trees forgot the words to the song.
Christmas is on its way on Greg hasn’t made his Christmas Wish List. He says the only thing he wants is a video game called Twisted Wizard. Of course, Greg doesn’t receive the video game and the one gift that he thought Uncle Charlie had bought was the video game it wasn’t it was a picture frame with Uncle Charlie’s picture in it. Greg mostly received books, socks, a weight set, that red wool sweater that mom went shopping for, he wasn’t too thrilled of any of his Christmas gifts. Mom says she did buy the video game and maybe she gave it to the Tree Sharing exchange that is done at the church. The red sweater was the gift she had originally bought for the exchange. So, Greg is pretty upset that some boy received his video game.
Connector:
I can relate to this when the Greg and his friend are walking home after trick or treating and the teenage boys drive pass them and spray them with fire extinguisher….we did something similar to that…on the way home from trick or treating we would egg houses that would have their lights turned off and run as fast as we could back to our house and hide in the bushes until the coast was clear to come out. Also, Greg receives a comic book from his brother called Best of Lil Cutie and his brother probably did that intentionally to annoy him. This is something that my 6 year old does to his big brother.
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