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| Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway | |
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The book's official encompass. | |
| Writer | Jeff Kinney |
| Publisher | Abrams Books (through Amulet Books), Puffin Books (UK) http://goo.gl/uqRLOh |
| Release Appointment | November 7th, 2017 |
| Pages | 217 |
| Preceded By | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down |
| Followed Past | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown |
| Colour | Azure (Spine: Alternate colors of Azure and Oriental Green) |
| Volume Number | 12 |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway is the 12th book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid serial. The book was released worldwide on Nov 7th, 2017.[1] The cover shows Greg looking out a plane's window, with Rodrick and Manny in the background.
Contents
- ane Principal Characters
- 2 Synopsis
- iii Plot
- 4 Trivia
- four.1 Goofs/Errors
- 5 Gallery
- vi Video
- 7 References
Main Characters
- Greg Heffley
- Director of Fun (Master Antagonist)
- Rodrick Heffley'southward Girlfriend
- Manny Heffley
- Rodrick Heffley
- Susan Heffley
- Frank Heffley
Synopsis
Greg Heffley and his family are getting out of town.
With the cold weather and the stress of the approaching holiday flavor, the Heffleys decide to escape to a tropical island resort for some much-needed balance and relaxation, instead of staying abode. A few days in paradise should do wonders for Greg and his frazzled family.
But the Heffleys presently find that paradise isn't everything it's cracked up to be. Sun poisoning, breadbasket troubles, and venomous critters all threaten to ruin the family'due south vacation. Can their trip be saved, or will this island getaway stop in disaster?
Plot
The story begins with Greg saying how he gets bored of hearing nigh other people's holidays, and that he only enjoys hearing about the ones that go wrong. As a result, he mentions the vacation his family just went on, and the story goes back a few weeks.
Greg Heffley realized that his family is getting frustrated with the holidays and they're style behind on everything; they have not put up decorations or bought gifts, and the cold is driving his parents crazy. When Susan and Frank see a commercial near Isla de Corales (where they went for their honeymoon), they both immediately decide to skip Christmas and become in that location instead, much to Greg's dismay and protestation. He does not like the thought of traveling by plane and does not want it equally his Christmas present. Manny and Rodrick, nevertheless, are on board. The family unit head to the aerodrome on Christmas Eve.
They are delayed by a serial of mishaps. They run into holiday traffic simply arrive at the airport. As they fail to unload in time at the driblet off zone, Frank and Greg take to return later with the luggage. Greg steps in a slush puddle and they finish up missing the shuttle.
In the airport, the family's suitcases are too heavy and the airport people say it'd toll extra to check it but Frank says they weren't giving them an actress nickel, so they stuff some wearing apparel into their comport on luggage. They enter the line for security, simply a naughty kid unzips a bulwark separating the lines, and everybody gets scrambled, resulting in the naughty child upfront and the Heffley family at the back and tried to enquire a security officeholder to go to the front, but no. They get through security and are delayed over again by somebody who has to remove all of his piercings. Manny then gets his toy stuck in an escalator, delaying them more. As a result, the family panic, grab some baggage, and dash to the gate. It turns out their flight is delayed. Greg goes to dry his sock just it ends upward flying into a urinal while doing so. He then sees people stumbling out of the aeroplane, feeling tired. He then hears that the flight is overbooked, and tries to finish his family unit boarding in exchange for a hotel stay and $300 (before long $500), but is stopped by Susan. Then a woman snaps up the $500. A replacement crew for the plane arrives and they finally board.
Greg is outset impressed by the plane's kickoff-form seats before he discovers that he has to sit down in the economic system. However, Frank nerveless enough air miles because of his business organization trips to sit in offset class. In the economy, Susan, Rodrick, and Manny are seated in the right row. Greg finds out he has three seats to himself until a family arrives late on board. The couple sits on either side of him with their babe. Greg becomes paranoid when he watches the emergency video and begins to ask questions nearly unfortunate events. Greg is very angry with the other passengers because most aren't watching the emergency video. Mid-flight, he feels boxed in when the people in front recline, and the person behind slides his cold and clammy bare feet on Greg's armrest. Greg tries to recline his chair too but when he asks the flight attendant how he learns that he tin't because the row behind him is an emergency exit. He ends up going to the bathroom because the couple'south baby started to get annoying, and sits in there feeling like a mini-flat to himself. Nevertheless the handle of the door shakes and the whole bath shakes too, the Flight Attendant tells Greg that they were going through a piddling turbulence. Greg tries to bandy seats with Rodrick merely couldn't get to him because one of the wheels on the drink cart broke from the turbulence. But then he ends up returning to his seat. He was somehow able to sleep for the rest of the flight.
As they land on Christmas Day, Greg is tired and begins to sympathize why the family came there. They affect down and began to head to the resort, Isla de Corales. He is fifty-fifty excited past the activities the resort offers which he sees on the bus. Greg hopes the resort will allow them combine activities. They get there and are greeted by the staff. Susan and Frank tell the receptionist they want to stay in the same building they stayed in for their honeymoon, but she says that the resort has since inverse, and information technology is now split into a family side (the Mild Side) and an adults-but side (the Wild Side). Still, Frank is disappointed by the changes, but Susan says it'south better because it is a family vacation and she says they don't need to exist around a bunch of young couples partying. The family also discovers that they got the incorrect luggage that is locked, and their luggage was sent back habitation. They only have the apparel they put in their hand luggage. They attempt to buy some new clothes, but they won't buy them because the items cost a lot of coin. Then they only buy sunscreen and a toy pail and shovel for Manny to utilize at the beach.
The family unit goes to explore the resort and end up at the puddle. The Director of Fun shows upwardly, all the same, and gets everybody moving. The Director of Fun makes Greg and Susan go in the conga line. Then Greg decides to do the Treasure Swoop. After this, Greg sees an iguana past the pool and is worried, so the family unit goes to get some tiffin. Greg and his family unit effort to eat outside; however, likewise many birds and bugs keep ruining their meals. Greg wants to go back to the room, only Susan says they were just getting started exploring the resort. Frank also wants to go dorsum to the room because he wanted some rest after the flying. So they head back to the suite, but Frank contracts a astringent infection from his water. He uses Ay! Mi Estomago!, which according to Greg either cures or causes diarrhea. It appeared not to work at all.
The next twenty-four hours, the family decides to go to the beach. Susan tells them that they'd clean upwards subsequently themselves and decides to rent a cabana at the embankment. Greg uses the outdoor shower. As he puts on his slipper, a behemothic spider falls out. Greg has an intense fright of spiders. Equally a upshot, he calls room service, simply the lady who answers keeps asking for his breakfast order. Greg gives upwards and orders breakfast. He gets another phone call from the room service waiter that there is a exercise not disturb sign on the doorknob. Greg tells him he could come up in. The waiter who arrives as well is scared of spiders. Eventually, they manage to trap the spider and flush it downward the toilet. The family heads to the beach while Frank is still at the suite. He returns, however, and reveals that he found the same spider that Greg attempted to flush abroad was actually on the toilet seat. Manny develops an obsession with collecting body of water creatures in his bucket so he tin can have them as pets. But he is upset by Susan when she dumps them back in the water, so they decide to go to the activities.
Susan decides to sign the family up for the banana gunkhole and turtle hatching. Before this, they have to find Rodrick, who has been in the Teen Zone helping a girl become her lip ring out of the volleyball net. They showtime try the banana boat to take a photo for the Christmas menu. Only the water gets fast, and when they striking a large wave, Rodrick, Greg, and Manny(from left to correct)are sent flying off. The commuter has to circle effectually so they can get dorsum on. When they commencement moving again, they get close to an in-water trampoline and the kids beginning using the banana boat as a target. Somewhen, one kid landed directly in the middle of the assistant boat and punctured it. The boat loses air fast, and the person belongings Susan's camera takes a film of the disaster-struck scene, but Greg doubts it will be used as their Christmas card.
They get hungry, and then they become to the golf clubhouse which turns them downwardly as they are non following the dress code. They go to the poolside bar and acquire of a monkey that has been returning there for drinks every day. They are chased away when Manny finds the TV remote, changes the channel to his favorite cartoons and throws the TV remote in the water. Greg goes to the arcade, and the family unit regroups later to find Rodrick. The same girl he helped earlier is at present his girlfriend. In the evening, they go to the beach bonfire and go to meet turtles hatching. Only as Greg is prepared to leave, they begin to hatch - only they lose their way to the body of water as people are using the flashes on their phones to take photos. The Heffley family finds Rodrick with the girl in the dunes.
The next day, Susan goes to the spa and Frank goes to the gym. Rodrick and then goes dorsum to the Teen Zone. Greg takes Manny to the Toddler's Cabana, but Manny gets out of going to the guild past peeing on the ground. He puts Manny in the pool but has to go him out again later. Susan booked a charter cruise for the whole family due in 30 minutes. On the cruise (which turns out to be a regular boat), the captain offers them to go snorkeling. Greg is freaked out by all of the deadly animals, specially the box jellyfish, and just stays in for one photo. As he surfaces, he swallows a big gulp of water. He also thinks he swallowed a seahorse along with it so they render to the bay to see a doctor. Frank and Susan were besides both seasick, and so they only return to the poolside.
The Box Jellyfish
They run into the Director of Fun, who keeps circling their chair, but suddenly stops to look at something in Manny's bucket. Greg idea it is a plastic bag, just it is actually a box jellyfish that Manny smuggled from the snorkeling trip, where the Director of Fun launches it back into the pool in fright. Because the pool workers can not observe the jellyfish, they take to drain the pool. The Heffley family escape in the commotion and noticed Rodrick isn't with them. He had been left in the sea where they went scuba diving and got dominicus poisoning. They return to the suite and make up one's mind to spend their concluding ii days outdoors. Since the aloe the doctor gave them did non aid Rodrick, they rub Rodrick's back with frozen treats.
Greg climing up the wall
The next day, after Frank came back with a box of frozen treats, he said he heard it would take THREE days to refill the pool. Greg goes to the tennis court in the Tween Zone in hopes of learning how to play lawn tennis. Unfortunately, when the counselor, Rodrigo, locks them in, information technology was just a muzzle full of children with a brawl machine and tennis balls. It turns into a free-for-all, which stops suddenly when a kid recognizes Greg equally the family who brought a box jellyfish to the poolside. He tries to tell them that it was Manny's error and an blow, just they throw tennis balls at him. He apace escapes the cage past climbing the wall and goes back to the suite with his family. They were out of things to practice and desire to exit the resort early, however, Frank refuses to exit until he gets a decent meal. Manny discovers that the suitcase they got on mistake savage and broke and has the clothes they demand to get in the clubhouse. They each wear some of the wearing apparel in there; they first head to the clubhouse, and then the putting green for golf game. However, they are spotted by a security guard, who escorts them out of the greenish because a family had reported them for wearing their missing clothes.
They attempted a failed getaway, and are ultimately sent back to the hotel to return the clothes. They were likewise ejected from the hotel for theft, and so they were forced to stay overnight at the drome hotel. The next day, Susan and Frank didn't like the way things ended and reveal they plan for them to return to the resort to leave on a high annotation. So they sneak in. They skip the pool and then find Rodrick'southward girlfriend with Rodrigo. They become back to the beach and scavenge for nutrient by distracting others and then eating their food. They go to take 1 more than photo but are spotted past the family unit who they took clothes from, and the family ran off to report on Greg's family.
The Heffleys try to escape the resort. Greg heads for the beach and windsurfs away. He gets stuck in the dolphin swimming expanse but is chased back to shore past security. He ends upwardly on the Wild Side of the resort and lands on a individual beach in which adults sunbathe without apparel on. Greg runs for the wall dividing the two sides, just where his family unit was passing. Greg tries to climb over the wall, but this is destroyed past a stampede of tourists. The family escapes unnoticed and heads to the drome.
When they got back on Sunday, Dec 30th, Greg wants to testify Rowley where he went to for his Christmas vacation. He discovers there that his family has been banned forever and is wanted past the staff, in other words, the chances of the family unit going back there e'er once again is history.
This is exactly why he considered the thought of going to Isla de Corales a terrible idea in the start place.
Trivia
- This is the third bluish book. Rodrick Rules was the get-go, and Motel Fever was the second.
- This is the third volume to include the reptile skin blueprint, and the second to include the new amulet logo.
- Fregley makes no appearances for the 5th time.
- This is the second volume that takes place on a vacation. The kickoff is The Long Haul.
- This is likewise the 2d book where the book simply covers one month (in this case, December). The outset is the Long Haul, which took place in June.
- This book was foreshadowed at the end of The Long Booty film, where Greg's mom says that side by side year they'll exist flying away for vacation.
- This is also the fifth book to feature Greg's trademark frown on the cover.
- In the sneak summit, the flying bellboy on Greg'due south plane has a unlike physical appearance.
- The pig is absent in this book. Yet, he returns in The Meltdown, where they explicate his absenteeism.
- Corny's Family-Mode Eating place makes a brief appearance when Greg explains that calculation "family" to something means it will be of poor quality.
- This is the third book where Rowley is not seen on the title page.
- Larry Larkin makes a possible cameo on page 22.
- This is the third book that takes place at Christmas time (the first being Diary of a Wimpy Kid and the second being Motel Fever).
- This is the second book in which Rowley has a small part (the showtime existence in The Long Haul).
- There are some popular civilization references in this book:
- Jurassic Park was referenced when Greg is running away from the Giant Iguana on Page xc.
- Spider-Human was mentioned when Greg climbs upwards the contend in the Tennis Court on Pages 188 and 189.
- The main plot of this book is about similar to the 1985 National Lampoon's European Vacation Picture's plot: Both families are going to a different country on an airplane, in that location are a few romantic moments in each of them, and there some other similarities between this book and the film.
- A Star Wars character is shown belongings a Lightsaber on Page 76.
- Charlotte's Web was mentioned when Greg fantasized himself into the actual book on Page 107, saying that if he was in information technology, it would've been "a very brusque book" with him as an exterminator.
- In the arcade, in that location's a game named "Crumb Muncher" that appears to be a parody/reference to Pac-Man.
- At the end of the book, a motion-picture show is shown of the Heffley family on a banana gunkhole with 10's crossed on their faces with a caption that reads: "ATTENCIÓN!" "Póngase en contacto con Isla de Corales si conoce la identidad de las personas en la foto de arriba." This is Castilian for: "ATTENTION!" Delight contact Isla de Corales if you know the identity of these people in the photo to a higher place."
- The medicine that reads "¡AY! ¡MI ESTÓMAGO!" on Page 97 is Spanish for "OH! MY STOMACH!".
- At page 109, when Greg attempts to telephone call 911 because of the spider, he was greeted with a pre-recorded message which says "EL NÚMERO QUE HA MARCADO NO ESTÁ DISPONIBLE", which translate to "the number you lot have dialed is non bachelor".
- The box jellyfish may not have been an actual box jellyfish, due to several hints suggesting that Isla de Corales is located in the Caribbean, and the fact that box jellyfish are native to Australia. If then, either Greg misidentified it, or it was a factual error.
- This is the 2nd time Rodrick made an appearance on the volume cover. The first since Rodrick Rules.
- This is as well the second fourth dimension Manny fabricated an appearance on the book cover. The outset since Cabin Fever.
- This is also the commencement volume to feature more than ii characters on its cover (3).
- This book reveals that Greg has never been on a plane before and doesn't know how they work. He is also shown to not know that there is a offset class, despite knowing information technology in Dog Days.
- 466 words are written in all-capitals in this volume.
- Greg is taller in this book and in the following books.
- The sentence "Feliz Navidad" translates to "Merry Christmas".
- The Polish version of this book has two small changes.
Goofs/Errors
- Greg's waist seems way too high throughout the entire book. This could simply be a new graphic symbol design.
- Factual mistake: Greg states that he learned that human waste is ejected from airplanes. In real life, homo waste is kept on the airplane until landing.
- Manny seems too brusque on some pages, especially on the upper picture in Page 150.
- Greg's pants are longer than his dad'southward pants on Page 78. His pants are also too big in Page fourteen since it about touches three lines when it should just be touching well-nigh less than ii.five.
- Rodrigo's goatee is missing in the lower picture in folio 203 and 204.
- Greg'southward left arm is missing in the lower flick of folio xl.
- Greg says that every fourth dimension they go to a hotel, he has to sleep on a cot or a sofa bed, but in The Long Haul, he slept in the closet'due south floor.
- On page 202, the man in sunglasses's torso is transparent.
- When Greg sees the iguana, and runs out of the pool, he says he really skipped beyond the water. But in Cabin Fever, he reveals he cannot skip. He could probably have meant 'sprinted'.
- On Folio 122, information technology says "Manny ran off to collect seashells". Just in the picture on Folio 125, he can be seen as a silhouette building a sandcastle.
- Factual mistake: On page vii, Susan lets Manny sit down in the front seat. Only in the US, you demand to exist about twelve years old to sit down in the front seat. But Manny is simply nearly five years old. This fault as well occurs in The Deep End.
- Greg's adult depiction of him on page 64 is missing its mustache, which returns in the next page.
- Rowley seems too tall on some pages, specially on folio 184.
- (Error spotted by somebody in the comments) On folio 184, when Greg decided he should turn effectually because he didn't desire to get sweaty, he changes his mind because Rowley is playing tennis at his country club and that if he practiced, he could have some good hits with Rowley. But in Canis familiaris Days (book,) Greg says Rowley is not allowed to invite him to land club anymore. Withal, Greg could mean that they could take some adept hits at some other identify, and not at the country society.
- On pages 156 & 161, the kid who blocks the cannons is somehow floating on the water.
- In sure copies of the book, the sentence "Everyone wrote downwardly 'astronaut' and 'veterinarian' and stuff like that" on folio 106 (with the normal font) has the give-and-take "and" after "veterinary" printed twice.
- On page 102, one of the dead fish is transparent.
- On page 199, Susan's glasses are thicker than usual.
Gallery
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Video
Diary of a Wimpy Kid- The Getaway past Jeff Kinney
References
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