Why Stanley Is Living In A Not So Good Life

When Stanley first got to Camp Green Lake he was timid, apprehensive, and hesitant, but now he’s dauntless, sympathetic, and worthy.

He is a very dominating: he overpowers his timid wife, Stella, constantly, to keep her from leaving him. He is very proud of his American heritage, several times referencing to his being in the United States Army and is enraged when Blanche calls him "common," or a "Polack." He seems incapable of refinement, and does everything whole-heartedly: he claims to love Stella thoroughly and hates Blanche vehemently. Stanley is honest to the point of brutality, and he does not care about offending others. Further, He even brags to Mitch about raping Blanche. He despises Blanche because they are opposites. His hatred of Blanche is so great that he rapes her, causing her final mental breakdown.

Belle Reve has been lost. He does not care for Belle Reve as a bit of

The novel begins with Stanley being wrongly accused of stealing a pair of sneakers owned by a famous baseball player. Due to his adversity, Stanley is sent to a juvenile detention facility ironically named Camp Green Lake. This camp resides in the middle of a desert, and is composed of disobedient kid who are forced to dig holes to“build character”. Stanley possess several Christlike traits, such as: his wounded and blistered hands from digging so many holes, the agony he possessed from dehydration and all of the physical labor he was subjected to, Stanley’s optimistic and self sacrificing character who risked death to save his friend Zero, Stanley’s patient and cordialness with other kids, (this trait is especially displayed when he is teaching his friend Zero to read) Stanley’s kindheartedly when he shared his sparing amounts of food and water with Zero, Stanley use of humble transportation due to his family's reduced budget, Stanley was last seen with the thieving kids of the camp and the thieving camp administrators, and finally,when Stanley returned to the camp, full of kids who committed several crimes and freed them from their grueling jobs of digging holes. In conclusion, characters, such as Stanley Yelnats IV are paralleled to Jesus Christ to exemplify their suffering, hopefulness, and other divine character

The way this theme contributes to Stanley destroying Blanches’ mental health is that his necessity for reality intrudes on Blanches’ desperate attempt at surviving illusions. Stanley is ‘simple, straightforward and honest’ (S2:pg.137*) and incapable of understanding Blanches’ delicate

The main character's name is Stanley Yelnats. At first, you see stanley as an alright kid who has made a bad decision stealing. “ I stole some sneakers” (pg 22). Throughout the rest of the story you find that stanley is nice and always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. “He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time all thanks to his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather” (Pg 7). At school before camp Green Lake he was bullied and treated bad. “he didn’t have any friends at home, he was overweight” (pg 7). At camp Green Lake Stanley made a new friend, his best friend “Zero”. He get’s along great with Zero and teaches him how to read. “I’ll try

Stanley’s and Blanche’s worlds are opposite to each other. Stanley and his peers live in a working-class world. Life is simple for them. They work and entertain themselves with beers and card games in their spare time. On the contrary, Blanche is from Old South of luxury, where white people are

In the novel ‘Holes’, Stanley Yelnats has changed physically and mentally during the entire time he was in Camp Green Lake. Stanley was sent to Camp Green Lake due to committing a crime. Their punishment in Camp Green Lake is to dig holes every day in the middle of nowhere were the sun is scorching hot. Stanley used to be overweight, he did not have any friends because he was bullied for his weight

Stanley is portrayed in a negative light throughout the play, with his mind mainly focused on himself. Williams paints this impression of Stanley by emphasizing the importance of his possessions by describing, “his car, his radio, everything that’s his.” (25) At first glance, Stella and

Stanley, appears to be a lover one minute and a scoundrel the next. Stanley is a man that likes control. He works while his wife stays home and cooks. He has poker parties at his house and barks orders at his wife.

Stanley’s actions are intense and mostly uncalled for, Stanley is heavily motivated by the past and

is true in the extreme for Stanley, he does what he wishes and disregards the consequences. It is not a motto he actually employs towards the remaining characters; thinking only of himself, he does not care if anyone else is "comfortable" or not. Through dialogue such as this, Williams asserts to the reader/audience the fact that Stanley inherently fails to take into account the repercussions his own requirements and desires have on others. He is in total control and the only person endowed with power; therefore the only person he takes into consideration - and the only person his wife is allowed to take

It is not always about what is on the outside but what is on the inside. He has always been loving and caring but through this rough time in his life it is shown a lot. He shows this side to his family and also his new friends. After Stanley was done taking the blame for the spilt sunflower seeds and zero digging Stanley’s hole for him, Stanley showed Zero he cared for him; he agreed to teach him to read. “I’ll try to teach you to read if you want,” Stanley offered. “I don’t know how to teach, but I’m not worn-out today, since you dug a lot of my hole.” (Sachar, 96.) Stanley was grateful for what Zero had done for him and wanted to repay the favor and help him out as well. When Stanley left for camp his mom gave him pen and paper so he could write her and tell her how it was going. By writing to his mom and telling her that he was okay, even though he lied about what he was doing he showed he cared for his parents. “Dear Mom and Dad, Camp is hard, but challenging. We’ve been running obstacle courses, and have to swim long distances on the lake. Tomorrow we learn” (Sachar, 81.) As the story comes to an end Stanley really cares about Zero and refuses to leave camp without him. He gets his lawyer to ask for files and after the Attorney General could not find his files they took Zero home with them. “C’mon Stanley,” said his lawyer. “Your parents are waiting.” Stanley stayed where he was.”

One day he finds a gold lipstick tube with the initials K.B. inscribed on the side of it. As a result, The Warden of the camp forces them to dig around where he found it, which makes Stanley suspicious of what they’re here to look for. Overtime Stanley befriends Hector Zeroni or “Zero” and teaches him to read and write. One day, Hector runs away into the desert after the staff humiliates him and Stanley chases after him three days later. Once Stanley finds Zero dehydrated under an old flipped over boat, he convinces him to walk towards the mountain that looked like a hand giving a thumbs up. Once at the base of the mountain, Zero is too weak and dehydrated to move on so Stanley carried him up, even though he’s still overweight and dehydrated. They eventually reach the top where they discover water and an onion field. They eat and rest on onions for a week before deciding to return to camp to look for what the Warden desired. They dig and dig until they eventually find the treasure chest with Stanley’s name on it, or the fortune that kissin Kate stole from his great grandfather and buried. Then, it’s revealed that the Wardens ancestors, the Walkers, have been looking for the treasure Kate Barlow hid for generations which is why she

4.In the beginning of the novel Stanley Yelnats is hopeful that Camp Green Lake would be a rich kid camp, but also has some doubts. 5.As a result of Stanley’s imagination, “Now Stanley tried to pretend he was going to Camp fun and games”(Sachar 7). 6.Camp fun and games to Stanley Yelnats meant a camp of non stop fun activities, games, and excitement. 7.However Stanley Yelnats thought Camp Green Lake would be Camp fun and games, he also had some doubts, “He couldn’t see a lake, and hardly anything was green”(Sachar 10). 8.Stanley Yelnats had some doubts that what he saw at Camp Green Lake wasn’t what he imagined it to be.