Holes

Soon after Stanley’s arrival in Detention Center Camp Green Lake Stanley becomes familiar with hard life and harsh rules in this facility. Boys could take shower with cold water for only four minutes; he got blisters on both of his hands by gigging his first hole. He told other Campers that he stole a pair of sneakers from a famous baseball player, but no one believed him and infect he didn’t really commit a crime it was just mixture of bad luck kind misunderstanding . We find out more about Stanley’s family history and how his great-great grandfather came to America and forgot about his promise to Madame Zeroing because of which he believed to be cursed. After digging his first whole Stanley bops into a large boy who tries to pick a fight him but other boys rescue him and give him the nickname Caveman. While digging his second hole he finds a fossil fish and he reports his findings to his counselor. But he replies that the warden is not instructed in things like fossil. Other boy X-Ray asks Stanley to give him anything else interesting that might find because he has very poor vision and he has been in the Camp for a year so he deserves a day off. That is why Stanley give him a small gold tube with engraved heard with initials KB. The next day X-Ray pretended that he found the gold tube and got the day off. Stanley realizes that the warden is looking for something and finds out that they are under surveillance.