Camp Green Lake Essay

“There is no lake at Camp Green Lake”(sachar 3). Even though there's no lake, some people still go. No one actually wants to go to Camp Green Lake, but Stanley Yelnats had to, and it changed in many ways. Stanley changed throughout the novel Holes, by showing friendship, sweetness, and careness. At the beginning of the novel stanley is overweight but sweet, and no one really cared about him except his parents. As the author said in the first few pages, Stanley was overweight. “He was overweight and the kids at his middle school often teased him about his size”(Sachar 7). This states that Stanley's overweight size makes the kids at his school think that they're too cool for him. Until Stanley went to Camp Green Lake, he was sweet and innocent. “When Stanley was younger, he used to play with stuffed animals, and pretend the animals were at camp”(6). This shows that Stanley was sweet and innocent when he played with his stuffed animals. When Stanley got to Camp Green Lake, Mr. Sir didn't care about him.”’This is for yellow spotted lizards,
Stanley changed his weight and size towards the end of the novel, when the author writes, “He’d lost a lot of weight”(Sachar 147).This showed the reader that Stanley was overweight at first, then lost weight. Stanley also change how he acted. The author writes, “He flung open the door to the truck and climbed quickly and inside”(147). Stealing the truck was something that Stanley did that one time and said he'd never do it again. Not everyone really liked Stanley, but the author tried to catch the warden lying to the lawyer. He wrote,”’Thank god!’exclaimed the warden. She started toward him, then stopped ’”(215). The warden lied to the lawyer and acted like she liked Stanley and Zero. Many people lied to Stanley but that didn't change Stanley in his heart, he is still sweet to good