Discussion Questions:
1. How does Stanley's character change at Camp Green Lake?
2. What does the big thumb symbolize to you personally?
3.How do Sam's onions help Zero and Stanley?
4.Why do you think Zero was so weak comparing to Stanley?
5.Why is the warden so anti Zero?
Zero has still not come back to Camp Green Lake! Now Stanley is really getting very worried about it. This new boy named Brain has arrived X-ray calls him twitch as he is always twitching and fidgeting. Brain has come to Camp Green Lake because he had stolen a car! He claims that he could break into a car, disconnect the alarm, and hot-wire the engine, all in less than on minute! he said that he didn't mean to steal the car it was just that he suddenly started fidgeting....................then he got caught. It was Twitch's first day digging a hole when Mr Sir. arrived in the water truck to fill everyone's canteen, when he thought has Zero made it to big thumb? No he must be dead. But what if he's still alive? He then began to twitch he looked to see if the keys were still in the water truck and sure enough there they were hanging in the ignition. He jumped i and took of! He drove straight into a hole! He fell out and thought that that was just the stupidest thing that he had ever done. He got up and ran as fast ans he could he was going to find Zero dead or alive!
The time in the book where Zero runs away and Stanley goes after him and then they climb the big thumb together reminds me of a time when I went hiking with my family in the Drakensburg mountain range. This adventure took our family 10 hours to complete and it was like Stanley and Zero climbing the big thumb because my dad fell on the way coming down and cut himself on a sharp rock and then 1 of our water bottles fell out into the the bushes. This reminds me of when Stanley falls and drops his glass jars filled with dirty water.
This kinda reminded me about my cousin's party. I was about five then. Anyway, it was a pirate party. My aunt had made a scavenger hunt for us. The winner gets a treasure box with lots and lots of sweets in and 10 rand. On the list was a golden bubble blower. Everyone was looking for this bubble blower. But it seemed nearly impossible to find. I thought it could be under the ground so tried digging every where. I didn't find anything. But then I saw something shine in the light. i looked what it was and then I saw it was the golden bubble blower. I was happy that I had found it. I came in 3rd place.
In
the last few chapters Stanley gets a new nickname which is ‘Caveman’. Stanley
learns about more effective ways of digging his holes before the sun rises.
Stanley finds a fossil and thinks it’s good enough but unfortunately not. X-Ray
then makes Stanley promise to give him anything interesting he finds because
Stanley has‘an eye’ for those things. One day Stanley is digging and finds a
tube which he had to give to X-Ray because of their deal. Stanley finds out that
the warden is a woman and he writes his mother a letter. The warden makes them
dig in pairs so they can dig more holes and faster and try find anything else
that is interesting. The Warden keeps making Mr Pendanski to fill the boys’
canteens. Stanley also finds out that there are mini cameras all over Camp Green
Lake, watching their every move. Zero wanted Stanley to teach him how to read
and write. Squid stole a pack of seeds and Stanley took the blame. So Mr Sir
takes Stanley to the Warden.
Discussion Director
1.How did the warden actually become the warden?
2.Why is Zero so quiet and angry?
3. Is digging holes the best punishment for them?
4.Howcome the warden is a lady?
5.Is the digging getting easier for Stanley?
Stanley Yelnats has been accused of stealing sneakers from a famous baseball player named Clyde Livingston. Anyway Stanley has been sent away to a detention center called Camp Green Lake, except it does not have a lake! It is just a dried up wasteland with two trees and a log cabin which is where the camp warden lives and has forbidden any boys to go.So Stanley has been sent here for 18 months. Everyday they have to dig a 5 foot deep hole and then they are allowed to got to a place called 'the wreck room'. So after the first day Stanley has dug his first hole in the scorching heat of the day and only just managed to stay strong, but not blister free! all the boys have to sleep in cots and have random nicknames such as 'Armpit' and 'Zero'. Stanley has written to his mother, except he says that he has made lots of friends and is enjoying the water which we know is so not true! After a long first day Stanley is relaxing in the Wreck room.
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