Holes

Yellow-spotted lizareds are six to ten inches long animals wich live in holes on the Camp because they like the shadow. They have 11 small spots and they seem to be very dangerous. I has a white tongue and black teeth.

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.

Stanly Yelnats is now sent to Camp Greenlake though he claims to be innocent. The boy has got a naive idea about what Camp Greenlake is, because in his mind he's got the picture of a summercamp where rich boys usually go to.
We learn about his family, that his father is an unsuccessful inventor. The family declares not to believe in curses, but always when something goes wrong, they blame it on the curse given to Stanly's grandfather and all his descendants.

In this chapter we learn that the boys not come to the camp voluntarily, but they go there as a punishment.
The main character, who is called Stanly Yelnats, is given the choice: Either going to Camp Greenlake or going to jail. He decides to go to the camp, but he doesn't seem to be aware of the fact that Camp Greenlake is a bootcamp.

Chapter one describes a camp called Camp Greenlake. In former times it used to be a lake, but now it's only dry wasteland. On this space there are now many huge holes.