Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview… “camper” at a juvenile detention facility out in the desert. At Camp Green Lake, everyone gets a nickname, and Hector Zeroni gets tagged with “Zero.” That says a lot about what the other people at the camp think of him. Though even the counselors claim he doesn’t have any brains, he’s quiet because he doesn’t want to communicate with the bullies around him. Zero’s had a difficult life, and he stays under the radar until he can figure out a way to escape from this hell.
Personality… quiet, street-wise, and determined. Zero keeps his cards close to his chest, and doesn’t trust easily. He’s not afraid to strike out on his own, because he’s always relied on himself. When he starts to make friends with fellow camper Stanley, it might be the first time he’s ever been able to open up to someone.
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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.
