Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Dog Days

Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Dog Days

By: Jeff Kinney

 

The relationship between Greg and Rowley in Dairy of a Wimpy Kid - Dog Days isn't so hot.  During that summer, they went from being best friends to becoming ex. friends.  If you don't know what happened that summer, then here is a recap.  One summer day, there was a knock on Greg's front door, and it was Rowley's Dad.  He didn't look happy. Rowley's Dad had a bill from the country club they go to, and that bill was for all the fruit smoothies Greg and Rowley bought. Greg didn't know that someone had to actually pay for all those smoothies. Greg's Mom and Rowley's Dad agreed that both Greg and Rowley would pay off the bill. So they started up a lawn care service, and when someone finally called Rowley and Greg they went to their house and they realized that neither one of them knew how to use a lawn mower. So Greg told Rowley that he could have the first try mowing the lawn. Well Rowley didn't like that idea at all so than they got into a big fight and Rowley walked off the job.

 

But it wasn't always like this, at the beginning of the book Greg and Rowley were best friends, but then there relationship started to crumble little by little. For example, Greg and Rowley would always go to the pool at the country club, hang out, and go to each other’s house, everything normal best friends would do. But than Mr. Jefferson (Rowley's Dad) told Rowley he is not allowed to invite Greg to the pool anymore. Well that ruined their fun at the pool, and that's when their relationship started to go downhill. But their relationship is also kind of weird because Greg also uses Rowley, like when he tells Rowley to have the first shot at mowing the lawn while he sits in the shade and starts working on their "business plans", Rowley gets mad at him and leaves him.

 

Their relationship just keeps getting worst because after that fight Greg and Rowley don't see each other for over a month.  They eventually bump into each other when their moms see each other at the supermarket. Then Rowley's Mom tells Greg's mom how they are going to the beach next week and they invite Greg to go with them. So you’re thinking that they are going to become friend's now, well think again because during that trip Greg shocks Rowley then Rowley shocks him back, then Greg ends up taking a rubber band, pulls it back and WACK! Rowley saw the red mark on his arm and he screamed. Rowley's parents got to the room and called Greg's Dad to take him home. So that just killed their friendship.