Camp Green Lake Research Paper

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Stanley Yelnats IV is a teenager born to a family who has been cursed with bad luck. One day, Stanley is falsely accused of stealing a pair of sneakers and is convicted. He decides to attend Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp, in lieu of serving a jail sentence.
He arrives to find that the camp is a dried-up lake run by the Warden, Louise Walker, her assistant Mr. Sir, and camp counselor Dr. Penda ski. Prisoners spend each day digging holes in the desert to "build character." The inmates are told that they may earn a day off, if they find anything interesting or unusual. After finding a golden lipstick tube initialed K.B. and a fossil, Stanley is accepted into the group and is given the nickname "Caveman." After taking responsibility …show more content…
The town was a lake town, thriving with water and life until Katherine Barlow, a local teacher, was involved in a love triangle with the wealthy Trout Walker, whom Kate rejected, and an African American onion seller named Sam, who Kate loved. Sam helped to rebuild Kate's schoolhouse and became closer and closer to her. One day she kissed Sam. At that time, it was illegal for African American males to be intimate with Caucasian females. The two ignored this and kissed in the schoolhouse. After much turmoil, a group of men from the town, including Walker, burned the schoolhouse. In desperation Kate sought the help of the sheriff, who was drunk in preparation for the hanging of Sam for his crimes. Running to the lake, Kate watched helplessly as Walker on his motorboat rode out and killed Sam whilst he was rowing his boat. The following day Kate returned to the sheriff who she kills in retaliation and becomes an outlaw. Sam's death causes the Green Lake to turn into an arid wasteland. Years later, the now bankrupt Walkers approach Kate and demand she hand over her buried treasure, but Kate responds that they could "dig for a hundred years" and not find it. She grabs a yellow spotted lizard and tells Walker to start digging before allowing it to kill her within minutes. For the next generation the Walker family sets about digging for the treasure but never actually find …show more content…
After digging deeper they uncover a chest just as Walker and Mr. Sir discover them. After escaping Walker with the help of some lizards it's revealed that she is Trout's granddaughter and she was using the inmates to search for the buried treasure for several years. The next morning, the Texas attorney general and Stanley's lawyer arrive; the chest Stanley found is revealed to have belonged to his great-grandfather before being stolen by "Kissing Kate". The warden, Mr. Sir (who is revealed to be a paroled criminal named Marion Seville), and Pendanski (who was outed fraud impersonating a doctor) are arrested for perverting the laws of justice. Stanley and Zero are released from the now-under-investigation camp. With justice finally being served, rain returns to Green Lake for the first time in over 100 years. The Yelnats family claims ownership of the chest, which contains jewels, old money, deeds and promissory notes, which they evenly share with Zero. With Zero's new found fortune he set out to hire his own private investigators that later reunited him with his missing mother. Camp Green Lake was closed and Stanley and his friends heard it was supposed to reopen as a Girl Scout camp. The Yelnats and the Zeronis move to new neighboring houses along with their friends, and Clyde Livingston apologizes to Stanley for accusing him of stealing the
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