Dry Flat Wasteland

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

We first meet Stanley at the beginning of scene one, we get an idea of Stanley's character from the stage directions that come before his first piece of speech. These stage directions prior to his dialogue say ‘[bellowing]’, the verb ‘bellowing’ is a very powerful word and immediately gives the impression that Stanley is aggressive, especially compared to the contrasting stage directions that describe Stella such as ‘[mildly]’.

He happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. He is found guilty and sentenced to spend time at a boy’s detention camp. In both the movie and the book the camp is portrayed in the same way. The camp is out in the middle of what used to be a lake but is now a desert. The camp has no walls. All the rules Stanley and the other inmates have to follow are the same in both the movie and book. The people in charge at the camp are also the same in both book and movie version of this story.

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

Stanley is the antagonist, he is violent and an enemy to the Protagonist, Blanche. “He acts like an animal, has an animal’s habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one!”(scene 4) He hits Stella, and rapes Blanche. “We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning!” (scene10). It is also found that Stanley also reveals “the survival of the fittest,” in

Stanley exhibits all of the symptoms of PTSD through the way that she treats Blanche, like she is the enemy and raping her. His reasoning for acting the way he does toward Stella from his detachment and not wanting her to leave him. Also his characteristics of being rough and violent which is shown from the abuse of alcohol, which causes Stanley to become violent towards Stella. All of Stanley’s actions make scene when we consider that he could have PTSD from coming back from

Stanley is a character in this play, whose perspective is clearly reality based. Since Blanche’s outlook on life is fantasy based, there is a lot of hostility between the two characters. Stanley is the one that always exposes the lies that Blanche is always hiding behind. He is constantly trying to get her to accept his perspective. When she finally begins to understand him, it’s too late. With such a huge change, she loses her mental state. Her personal beliefs get interchanged between fantasy and reality, to such an extent, that it seems as if she no longer realizes what is true or what is malign.

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

Stan is extremely suicidal but doesn’t really show it until verse two, saying that he sometimes cuts himself, which I imagine he would be doing often, just to see how much he can bleed, just because of the fact that a person he has met once and is very famous and busy will not write him back, in verse 3 Stanley says that he is driving 90 miles an hour on the freeway after drinking alcohol driving towards the end of a bridge, if he is not asking to

They would throw his journal in the toilet, and Stanley had to go fish it out, but now that he was digging all those holes he became slimmer and muscular. On page 29 it states “For once in his life it paid to be overweight.” this shows that he knows he is overweight and doesn’t like it. At camp he was the biggest one there and felt self conscious but at the end he wasn't the biggest one, Armpit was. He didn't have any friend because he was to shy and self conscious.

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.”

There are many reasons as to why Stanley is living in a wasteland. The physical environment of the camp is one reason. The people at camp is another. His life situations is also another reason. To begin with Stanley’s physical environment is not a positive place to be in.

A year later, his father remarried a woman from “hell” and she was one of the reasons why Stanley became destructive. She was selfish and only cared for her and her seven children. She physically and emotionally abused Stanley by severely beating him many times and blaming him for senseless things. She also neglected him and his two other siblings while she gave her children the best of everything with Stanley’s father money. For example, his stepmother would save food and feed her own children and let Stanley and his siblings