Holes

In this Chapter we learn about the conditions at Camp Greenlake and why Stanly is sent there.
The living conditions at the camp are very poor, the food is terrible and the clothes are smelly. On request Stanly explains why he was arrested. While he was walking down the street, suddenly a pair of sneakers came flying from the sky. Without thinking he put them on and then started to run. Because of this, he was stopped by a police car. Later he found out, that the boots are from his favourit basketball player, Mr Livestone.

In this chapter, Stanly meets the other members of his group and his consoul.
The camp is organized in six groups, each of them with one consoul. The one looking after group D, where Stanly is in, is called Mr. Pendanski. He is much younger than Mr. Sir and also more sympathetic. Mr. Pendanski talks to Stanly in a normal way and explains to him that Stanly is at the camp because he made a mistake, but now Mr. Pendanski is going to help him to change. Then he calls some of the boys of group D. All of them have nicknames but they are all humiliating. The boys call each other by their nicknames, but Mr. Pendanski calls them by their real names though they dislike this. Only one boy, who is called Zero, is called by his nickname by all of them, because they think he is stupid.

This chapter is about Stanly meeting a man called Mr Sir, who has got most of the time most power in the camp.
After leaving the bus Stanly is brought to Mr Sir. He is a scary looking man who is currently in a bad mood because he has stopped smoking. He seems to be quite nice to the guard and the other employees but he doesn't care about the kids. For example he says to Stanly, that he wouldn't waste a bullet for Stanly if he tried to run away, because Stanly will die of thirst out there anyway.