Table of Contents
- 1 Who does Kate Barlow encounter when she returns to Green Lake?
- 2 Who attended Camp Green Lake?
- 3 What happened to Mary Lou after Sam was killed?
- 4 Who dug Stanley’s hole for him after the sunflower seed incident?
- 5 Who is the shortest at Camp Green Lake?
- 6 Who was the doctor in Camp Green Lake?
- 7 What happens at the end of Camp Green Lake?
Who does Kate Barlow encounter when she returns to Green Lake?
Chapter 28 After twenty years of being an outlaw, Kate Barlow returns to Green Lake. There are two oak trees growing near a cabin and she lives there, imagining that Sam is with her. After three months there, Trout Walker and his wife, the redhead Linda Miller, tie Kate up while she is sleeping.
What does Stanley think he is going to do at Camp Green Lake?
Stanley Yelnats, the protagonist, thinks that Camp Green Lake will be like a summer camp. He has never been to summer camp because his family is poor, so when he is tried for a crime and the judge tells him he can either go to the camp or to jail, he chooses Camp Green Lake.
Who attended Camp Green Lake?
It is a detention center for boys. As punishment each boy must dig a hole every day in the desert heat. Supposedly their labor will turn a “bad boy” into a “good boy.” Stanley Yelnats, a fifteen-year-old boy from a poor family, chose Camp Green Lake over going to jail.
What happened at Camp Green Lake?
Stanley Yelnats, a boy who has bad luck due to a curse placed on his great- great-grandfather, is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp, for a crime he did not commit. Stanley and the other boys at the camp are forced to dig large holes in the dirt every day.
What happened to Mary Lou after Sam was killed?
In the middle of the lake, Sam was shot, Katherine was spared, and Mary Lou was killed on shore. The next day Miss Katherine shot the sheriff for his involvement in Sam and Mary Lou’s deaths and left a red kiss imprint on his face. Since that day 110 years ago, no rain has fallen on Green Lake.
Why didn’t the lizards bite Stanley and Zero?
Stanley Yelnats IV and Zero (Hector Zeroni) were both saved by that fact after eating a large number of onions, the same method Sam used, resulting in them smelling of onions. This prevented the lizards from biting them, due to the fact that they hate onion blood.
Who dug Stanley’s hole for him after the sunflower seed incident?
Zero
Chapter 21 When Stanley reaches his hole he finds that Zero has dug it for him.
Who closed Camp Green Lake?
Stanley’s father invented his cure for foot odor the day after the great-great-grandson of Elya Yelnats carried the great-great-great-grandson of Madame Zeroni up the mountain. Camp Green Lake was closed and the Warden, Ms. Walker, was forced to sell her family’s land.
Who is the shortest at Camp Green Lake?
X-Ray’s name is pig latin for his given name, Rex. X-Ray wears glasses because he can’t see very well, and he always uses the same shovel because he claims it is the shortest one (the holes dug by the boys are measured with their shovels). X-Ray is the unofficial leader of the boys in Group D.
What is Alan’s nickname in Holes?
Squid
Alan, better known by his nickname, Squid is a camper at Camp Green Lake.
Who was the doctor in Camp Green Lake?
There was a doctor in the Town of Green Lake, one hundred years ago, he was called Dr. Hawthorn and when people got sick, and they would go and see Doc Hawthorn. They would also see Sam, the onion man. “Onions! Sweet fresh onions!”
Who is the warden of Camp Green Lake?
The town used to be by the largest lake in the state, but became a dry lake-bed after Sam the Onion Man was killed on the lake 110 years earlier. The Camp is run by Warden Walker, and her assistant Mr. Sir, and camp counsellor Dr. Pendanski. Each day, the detainees must dig a five-foot round hole in the desert to “build character”.
What happens at the end of Camp Green Lake?
When Zero and Stanley are released from the camp, it rains again for the first time in 100 years and the Warden, Pendanski and Sir are all arrested, which leads to Camp Green Lake being shut down and turned into a Girl-Scout Camp. It hasn’t rained for one hundred years on Camp Green Lake.
Who was the donkey in Camp Green Lake?
Sam would call, as he and his donkey, Mary Lou, walked up and down the dirt roads of Green Lake. Sam also said that raw onions could make you live two hundred years old. Sam was not much older than twenty and had strong arms. Nobody argued with Sam, if they were sick they would go either to Dr. Hawthorn or Sam.