Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview… Mr. Sir is a counselor at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility for boys that’s out in the middle of the desert. He didn’t get into the job because of his love of children – he’s looking for something buried in the dirt. He claims that digging holes builds character, but the boys know there’s more going on.
Personality… mean, bossy, and a coward. Mr. Sir is the kind of person who enjoys exerting power over children, but he bows and scrapes before the Warden, the only person around who’s scarier than he is. His defining features are his fake-jolly cowboy-style of talking, and the sunflower seeds he’s constantly spitting.
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Stanley's family is cursed with bad luck. Unfairly sentenced to months of detention at Camp Green Lake, he and his campmates are forced by the warden to dig holes in order to build character. What they don't know is that they are digging holes in order to search for a lost treasure hidden somewhere in the camp.
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Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption.
