At the start of the novel Stanley is fat and has no friends, however when he goes to the Camp Green lake he gets friends, and he also digs lots of holes. He met boys called magnet, armpit, x-ray, zero, zigzag and squid. Stanley was getting bullied and had no friends at his school, so he was not a very happy person. Then when he goes to Camp Green Lake he makes friends, gets really healthy and strong and is enjoying his life at camp. But at the start he got bullied and he was scared to join in with some of the boys.
He poses the problem of being generation vexed because of the way you are being raised. His opinion, pointers, and facts are essential to his column. He say that he is here to let people know that are rejected from packs are not alone. He feels that generation vexed is due low self esteem, few positive role models, separation of parents, and not spending enough time with face - to - face interactions. An example is given where he is an unattractive 14- year old boy begging at an all male prep school.
- Ex: “that ain’t no matter” (Twain 1) * Jim’s dialect is more of a slave speak, because of his lack of an education. -Ex: “ne uv’ em’s light en’t the other one is dark. One is rich en t’others po.”(Twain 18) c.) Superstitions * From the beginning of the novel Huckleberry shows the superstitions he has. It has been engraved in his mind through his childhood and is part of his cultural surroundings. -Ex: when huck kills a spider in the first chapter he gets superstitious because he has
Sometimes this misunderstanding leads to the conclusion that he has low IQ and the counselors and the other campers there feel that Zero is stupid and worthless and treat him cruelly.They believe that Zero is good only at digging and nothing else. In reality, Zero is extremely smart and quick with numbers but he is uneducated. When Stanley comes to the camp, Zero realizes that Stanley is not like the other boys and also that he is not the one who stole the shoes and feels sorry for him. They finally become friends when Zero asked Stanley to teach him how to read and write. As Zero describes the hard life he has had to his new friend, his amazing willpower and strength of character are revealed.
I. FRACT, FRING, FRANG – Latin FRANGERE, FRACTUM “to break” 1. FRACTIOUS (adj.) Tending to argue or cause discord Malcolm grew from a fractious and irritable child into a tolerant and peaceful adult. syn: cross, peevish ant: amiable 2. INFRACTION (n.) Minor violation of a rule or law L. in, intensifier + fractum = to break For his infraction of the camp code, Kevin had to peel potatoes in the kitchen.
After all bullies usually only pick on people they know they can make feel bad to make themselves feel good. Ishmael didn’t feel good about himself, he hated his name he hated hearing the story of how he was born. Ishmael squirmed every time he heard his mother and father tell the story of how he was born and where he got his name from. At school Ishmael spent most of his time, as he says “making himself as small a target as possible” to avoid the bully Barry Bagsley and all the names he called him. Names like Le Spewer, Fishtail Le Sewer and Manure.
Letter to the Editor Dear Editor, Clearly, welfare authorities should remove obese children from families because parents are not taking good care of their children, they may be bullied at school or elsewhere and because of abusive parents. In the first place, parents are not taking good care of their children. For instance, there is a pre-teenage boy who weighs one hundred and ten kilograms. For this pre-teenage boy to have around one hundred kilograms of fat around his body is incredibly unhealthy. This is the fact that he had been sitting in his room while rating and being inactive.
Out of desperation, he started disassembling the van he was working on and threw parts near Fritz to see if he could be coaxed away from his destructive dinner. Radiator hoses didn’t work--neither did anything else until he pulled off a rubber suspension part and tossed it to Fritz. Right away, Fritz was ecstatic. The KONG was born! While Fritz invented the KONG, it was Joe Markham who saw the potential of this odd-looking toy.
The camp Stanley is sent to represents a desert, formed out of a dried lake. There is only dirt, sun and holes. Everything boys have to do at the camp is to dig holes for character improvement. They are forced to dig one hole a day, which is not easy: it has to be deep and wide, and it takes time to make it so. Moreover, because being in the camp was a punishment, boys were required to work with the lack of water and food, under hot sun, all day long.
When Oliver asks politely for more food, he is beaten and left in isolation by the self acclaimed humanitarian. In the novel, after Oliver's confrontation with Noah, the beadle says, “Meat, ma'am, meat,' replied Bumble, with stern emphasis. 'You've over-fed him, ma'am. You've raised a artificial soul and spirit in him, ma'am unbecoming a person of his condition: as the board, Mrs. Sowerberry, who are practical philosophers, will tell you. What have paupers to do with soul or spirit?