By Ziggy Dalton
The story takes place in the United States of America. The main character’s name is Stanley Yelnats. Stanley is an overweight, teenage boy that comes from a poor family. The name Stanley has gone down their family tree. They all like the name because Stanley Yelnats is the same the other way round. So he is Stanley Yelnats the IV. One day Stanley is walking back from school, he is under a railway station and a pair of sneakers “fall from the sky.” He realises these shoes are from a famous basketball player and he starts running back home as fast as he can, but then a police officer stops him and he gets caught. The Yelnats family always blame their bad luck on their dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great–grandfather. Stanley gets arrested and the judge gives him the option of prison or going to a place called Camp Green Lake. The family wanted to know more about Camp Green Lake but the judge said he quickly had to make up his mind. Stanley chose to go to Camp Green Lake. Stanley went on a long bus drive to the camp. In the bus was only the bus driver, a security guard and Stanley. He finally arrived at the camp, exhausted and thirsty. The first person he met was Mr Sir. Mr Sir was the guard at the camp who owned a gun. He was scary and in a bad mood as he had just given up smoking. He gave Stanley his clothes and informed him about the camp rules. After that Stanley meets Mr Pendanski. Mr Pendanski was the counsellor for tent D where Stanley was given his bed. He was a kind person and seemed to like the boys in the camp. Camp Green Lake was actually called Camp Green Lake Juvenile Correctional Facility. It was definitely not a luxurious place to be. It was the complete opposite. It was a hot and dry place with no rainfall and in the middle of nowhere. There also was very little water. As a punishment every boy had to dig a hole 5 foot deep andfive foot across. They had to dig one hole per day. He was shown his tent and his bed. Stanley was given the bed of a boy named Barf-Bag. This boy had somehow disappeared and ended up in hospital, but no-one was talking about it. That made Stanley feel a bit uncomfortable. At the start the other boys were quite unfriendly to Stanley. Mr Pendanski introduced the boys by their real names but they all insisted to be called by their nicknames. Eventually the other boys start to like Stanley. They got him out of a fight with one of the biggest boys in the camp. After that they even gave Stanley the nickname “Caveman”. He was happy because now they had accepted Stanley as one of them.
RSS Feed