2N D FORMATIVECOMPARISON BETWEEN 2 ART WORK: DIARY NOVEL

By: Jessica Angela Ansell 6B

WHAT IS A DIARY NOVEL?

A diary novel tells about a cartoon character that

writes his or her diary but then, the author made the

diary into a novel with drawings that people can see

and read in.

WHAT’S MY COMPARISON?

I will compare 2 of my favorite authors for the

topic Diary Novel: Rachel Renee Russell of Dork

Diaries and Jeff Kinney of Diary Of A Wimpy Kid.

MY FEELINGS TO THOSE 2 B OOKS

There are lots of stories in that 2 books that are mostly similar

to my life, such as being bullied and others. I think it influence

other people to just be your self and you don’t need to be another

person just try being yourself and you can be a good person.

Rachel’s and Jeff’s book inspired me a lot to just me myself not

another person that doesn’t describe me at all. I think this book is

very appropriate for teenagers around 13 years old.. Because I

think their troubles are all in those 2 books and there is also a

solution behind the problem.

ELEMENTS OF ARTS

The elements of these 2 books are in the content of

the book. Rachel Renee Russell’s books normally tell

about her and her child’s teenage years.. So it’s

possibly true. But if Jeff K’s book, it’s still the same

but sometimes also his life but sometimes made up.

WHO IS RACHEL.R.R?Rachel Renee Russell is a women that grew up in Saint Joseph,

Michigan, a small city on the shore of Lake Michigan. She have 2

younger sisters and 2 younger twin brothers. She wrote and

illustrated her 1st book when she was a 6th grader as a birthday

present for her brothers. Rachel have 2 daughters. Her youngest is

Nikki which helps with illustrations and her biggest Erin, helps with

the writing. And she is also looking forward to adopting 3 children in

the near future. Many events on the book are based on the

experiences I and my daughters had in middle school. Rachel was

considered a dork in middle school.

DORK DIARIES? WHAT IS IT AB OUT?

Dork Diaries are about a dorky girl name Nikki, who wanted to be

popular but cant. Who had an evil arch enemy named Mackenzie

Hollister which was the leader of the CCP (cool, cute, popular).

Mackenzie always wanted to make Nikki jealous of her. Brandon,

who was a total of Nikki’s crush was the dream boy Nikki always

wanted while Mackenzie always lied to Nikki about Brandon liking

her. What a fortunate! Nikki had 2 best BFFs name Chloe and Zoey.

But unfortunately her embarrassing family, and of course her little

bratty sister Brianna always ruin everything, but sometimes Nikki

loved them so much.

WHO IS JEFF K.?

Jeffrey Kinney who was known as Jeff Kinney was

born and grew up in Fort Washington, Maryland,

USA. He went to the University of Maryland at

College Park in the early 1990s. It was in college

that Jeff created the popular comic strip. But in

college he actually wanted to be a cartoonist.

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID? WHAT’S THAT AB OUT?

Diary of a wimpy kid is most similar to dork

diaries. It tells a kid name Greg Heffley, who had a

trouble maker brother Rodrick and a miserable little

bratty brother Manny. Also the unbeatable Frank and

Susan Heffley. It said in the book that Greg had a

huge crush on a girl name Holly. Greg is always

humiliated at school.

HOW TO MAKE THE B OOK “DORK DIARIES”

Rachel complied all the

stuff that happened to her

and her daughters at middle

school.

She wrote the entry. And

her daughters helped too.

She recheck her work many

times

And it’s compiled into a

book/diary novel

Tools that she needed are:-Papers-Pen-Pencil-Eraser-Tip-X-An empty book

Techniques:-Know the elements of writing a novel-Writing a plot-Start Writing the story

HOW TO MAKE THE B OOK “DIARY OF A WIMPY KID”

Jeff compiled all the

stuffs he had think of

for his book

Turned it into a

story

Recheck and

checked it many

times

Publish it

Tools that she needed are:-Papers-Pen-Pencil-Eraser-Tip-X-An empty book

Techniques:-Know the elements of writing a novel-Writing a plot-Start Writing the story

RACHEL’S INSPIRATION

Rachel got her inspiration from both of her

daughters and also her experience in middle school.

So, she combined all her daughters’ experiences in

middle school and made the book into DORK

DIARIES!

JEFF K INNEY’S INSPIRATION THROUGH WIKI ANSWERS WITH HIS

USERNAME

Kinney: When I first walked onto set, I felt very

wide-eyed. I didn't have any experience with movie-

making and I thought that my readers might have

that same kind of wide-eyed wonderment that I did.

So I wanted to tell the story of how a movie gets

made because I thought it was very interesting. I

hope my fans will like it.

HOW TO IMPROVE “DORK DIARIES”

I can improve it through, making it with little

amount of words and more pictures. Because I think,

that way, more fans of dork diaries will come

especially kids around 7 years old, because that kind

of age and a book with lots of pictures can make

him/her like the book a lot because the pictures are

so interesting and the words and a little amount of

words.

HOW TO IMPROVE THE BOOK “DIARY OF A WIMPY

KID”

I can improve that book through making it with

more pictures and writing in the same amount.

Because that way, teenagers and pre-teens can read

that book easily, so they wont keep searching for

pictures where there are lots of writing in it.

HOW TO INTERPRET THOSE 2 B OOKS TO ANOTHER FORM OF ART?

Dork Diaries: on this book, this book can make a movie because the

book can be acted and it’s not difficult to understand the story. This book

can also be a comic because the character drew a comic and then the

author (Rachel) showed the comic, that’s why this book can be a comic

book.

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: on this book, actually, they already made a

movie called “DIARY OF A WIMPY KID THE MOVIE” and also the book

“DIARY OF A WIMPY KID THE MOVIE BOOK” so basically, the story is

the same. The book also can be made into a comic book because most of

the pages, they have comic that has been made by the character.

NEGATIVE AREAS ON THE B OOK “DORK DIARIES”

There are less pictures and more writing, but in

some pages there are more pictures and less

writings and that’s not balance. And also the last

page on every book it’s always the same because

there is always a writing “I’M SUCH A DORK! ”,

but if in every book the ending is different and

variative, I think more child will come to buy the

book.

NEGATIVE AREAS ON THE BOOK “DIARY OF A WIMPY KID”

The book is almost the same as dork diaries, but

this book has less smileys but many doodles also

there are less pictures when there are many writing

and less writings when there are many pictures. This

book is also not good to be followed because, some

pages tells that the brother (RODRICK) always slap

or other violent stuff to his brother (GREG).

THE POSITIVES AREA ON “DORK DIARIES”

There are some positive area on dork diaries that

some fans of them will like:• Has cute pictures and doodles• Easy to be read• Has a variety of stories • Has cute smileys • Funny cartoons• Legible

THE POSITIVE AREAS ON “DIARY OF A WIMPY KID”

There are some positive things on the book “diary

of a wimpy kid” that some DOAWK fans will like:• Funny cartoons• Cute doodles and drawings• Easy to be read• Legible• Many stories are in it

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