Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview… the Warden oversees Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility for boys out in the desert. She makes them dig endless holes, and bring whatever they find to her. The entire camp, counselors included, live in fear of her – especially if she says “Excuse me,” which sounds polite on the surface but conceals an iron fist in a velvet glove.
Personality… mean, frightening, and determined. The Warden lives for one thing and one thing only: finding what’s buried in the sand at Camp Green Lake. If anyone gets in her way, she’ll use her deceptively sweet words and her nails – painted with rattlesnake venom – to move them. Forcefully, if necessary.
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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.
