The author was showing that when you go on a family vacation no matter how bad it may be their is always a way to make the vacation fun.Diary of a Wimpy Kid:The Long Haul is a humor book by Jeff Kinney.Greg and his family are the main character who are trying to have a fun road trip that turns into a disaster.Greg though that he would hate the road trip and that it would be boring but he learned no matter how bad something has started off it could still be turned into something fun.
Greg is the main character in this story.When he first heard that they were going on a road trip he knew he was going to hate it and throughout the story the road trip kept turning into a disaster even more but good things would happen at the least expected moments.Some evidence in the story is at the beginning he said he was going to hate it but at the end he said that it turned out pretty ok. Throughout the story good and bad things kept happening and Greg was realizing that bad things will turn into good things eventually.After all he turned out to have a good road trip even after the bad things.Therefore,Greg learns that good things can happen out of nowhere.…show more content… things if you keep trying.Accordingly,the family learned that bad things will always happen,but good things will follow