Camp Green Lake

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Stanley, a 14 years old boy, lives with his mother and his father who works as an inventor. He is a kind boy, but all the people at school make fun of him because he is overweight. One day, some boys at school bullied him, and eventually he missed the bus. On his way home walking, a pair of shoes fell from the sky on Stanley’s head. He took the pair of shoes and ran to his dad because he thought that they would help him with one of his invention. Before he arrived the police caught him and he got convicted for stealing the shoes, which was owned by a great basketball player. The judge gave Stanly the choice of going to Camp Green Lake or prison, and he choose Camp Green Lake. Stanly believes that this happened to him because of his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather." …show more content…

The Warden then instructed the boys to dig at that area, and Stanley realized that the purpose of digging was to find the treasure of Kate Barlow. Kate Barlow was a teacher that used to live in this area, and she fell in love with a black man called Sam. Eventually, the people of her town killed Sam because he kissed Kate, and because of that she killed and robbed many people. One of the people who she robbed was Elya Yelnats Stanley’s great great grandfather, and before she died she buried her treasure in a secret place. One day when Stanley was writing a letter for his mom, Zero came to him and asked him if he can teach him how to read and wright. Stanley agreed in exchange of Zero digging half the hole for him every day. The boys became jealous of Stanley getting more rest time, and zigzag got in a fight with Stanley, which made The Warden cancel the teaching lessons. Zero became angry of that decision and ran away from the camp. Few days later, Stanley stole the car of the guard and went to rescue Zero. He found Zero resting under a small boat, and then they decided to climb the mountains. On the way up, Zero got sick which made Stanly carry him up to the top. At the top, they found water and onions, and they

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