PLOT- A boy named Greg, the narrator, is talking in the story about his life and how it is changing throughout his senior year because of an old friend of his named Rachel. She has just been diagnosed with cancer and Greg’s mother is making him go and spend time with her throughout her struggle. He talks about how he tries to cheer her up along with his best friend, Earl, who lives in a very dysfunctional house with his brothers and alcoholic mother. Greg explains how he and Earl create films, very bad films, which they create for themselves out of boredom. Also, they were to be top secret films they swore to never show anyone until they made a …show more content…
For example, he wanted to get a girl and because the main girl he wanted was “out of his league”, he goes to her friend, a girl named Madison. Like I said before, he is very straightforward in a unusually rude way. He had some things to say about Madison. He stated, “I figured Madison would be starved for attention because Cammie was so hot.” He was talking about Cammie, who was her friend. So as you see, the tone is very straightforward, a little rude, and not so light, but not very dark. Some moments you feel bad for the main character Greg, but at other times you feel offended and astounded at how rude he can