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姓  名 林思妘 學  校 台中市立后綜高級中學 年  級 五 年 五 班

 

 

Book Report on Diary of a Wimpy Kid

After I go through the Diary of a Wimpy Kid, I can know what an American child’s life looks like. Also, I find out that there are a lot of differences between Taiwanese and American cultures, especially the way parents and teachers teach their children.

First of all, American education is not as serious and rigid as Taiwanese education. In the U.S, parents and teachers come up with various kinds of ways in order to make their kids better and better. They use different strategies to let students learn effectively and feel interested in learning. It is a good way to motivate students so that they are eager to learn and receive new knowledge. However, in Taiwan, parents and teachers always put students under strong pressure. It really makes students tired of learning. Also, it’s not really an effective way for students to study. In this book, the writer’s teacher asked him and his classmates to find a pen pal from a different country and try not to write the letter in English. I think it is a special way to learn foreign languages. However, the writer finally gave up writing a letter in the foreign language because he thought of this as an annoying thing. It also cost him a lot of money to buy stamps for the letters.

In this book, the writer wrote everything in details and expressed his own opinion on what had happened. From this book, I know that American education used to give children enough time to think instead of giving them too much homework. When I started reading this book, I thought it was very immature because the main character, Greg’s logic is quite strange, but soon I enjoy reading it because there are a lot of jokes in the book. The whole book is mainly about Greg’s school life, family and friends. He is a little naughty and usually comes up with “creative” ideas which always make him punished by his parents and teachers, but we can see how a creative child he is. Greg’s mother made him keep the diary every day and it equipped him with the better ability to observe his daily life than others.

The story I like most is that one day the Greg’s parents went out and his brother held a party. That day, his brother locked him in the basement to keep him away from the party. However after the party, his brother made him clean the house together. The most interesting part is that they exchanged the bathroom door and the basement door because his brother’s friend drew a big graffiti on the bathroom door. Unfortunately, it couldn’t be erased. Finally, their father found out that the bathroom door couldn’t be locked, but he did not perceive the exchange of the two doors. It’s very ridiculous for them to come up with such a crazy idea.

Every time I read this book, I have a different feeling about it. It is a good book to understand American culture. If you have the chance to read the Diary of a Wimpy Kid, try to think more about it. You will receive a lot of information from the daily life of Greg and find out that this book is quite interesting, so go read the Diary of a Wimpy Kid now.