Post on 01-Jan-2016
Louis Sachar
Born in East Meadow, NYMarch 20,1954Father died during first semester of
collegeMoved to California to be closer to momGraduated from law school in 1980Married in 1985 to CarlaHad daughter, Sherre two years after
marriage
Theme
A unlucky teenager gets caught for a “crime” he didn’t do. So he is given a choice Camp Green Lake or Jail. He chooses Camp Green Lake. But what he doesn’t know is that this camps has you dig holes to “build character.”
Making friends from different backgrounds.
Problem & Solution
Elya doesn’t take Madame Zeroni up the mo2untain for water-Problem 1
So all of Elya’s desidents are all cursed with bad luck-Solution 1
Stanley and Hector climb The Big Thumb-Problem 2
They find water and onions-Solution 2
Stanley Yelnats-Caveman
His name is the same frontwards and backwards
OverweightComes from a poor familyUnlucky
Hector Zeroni-Zero
Doesn’t like to answer to dumb questions Can’t read or writeGood at mathSteals things for his own use, but, doesn’t
think nothing of itHis mom left him in a park alone
Kate Barlow-Kissn’ Kate Barlow
School teacherIn love with SamBecame an outlaw when her true love was
killedAfter she kills someone she kisses them
on the head
X-Ray
Leader of the groupCan see wellHas dirty glassesNice to Stanley after he hands him the
gold tubeOne of the smallest of their group
Warden
Rattle snake, poison, red, nail polishAlways wears cowboy bootsIn charge of everything at Camp Green
LakeRed hairIs looking for Kissin’ Kate Barlow’s
“treasure”