Camp Green LakeEssay Preview: Camp Green LakeReport this essayIntro:– A hundred and ten years before Camp Green Lake existed, a beautiful, thriving town named “Green Lake” was situated on the edge of the lake.– CGL resembles a prison/work camp. “The town shriveled and dried up along with the lake, and the people who lived there.”– Orange clothing is similar to those worn by the inmates in many prisons. “Youre not in the Girl Scouts anymore.”– digging holes alludes to digging gravesWarden:placed in authority over those who have no power: likes to get her way and have the control over the campEstablish & maintain power: punishment-reward system, favour [stop treating the boys well], retaliates with a threat when Pendanski threatens her control.
At Camp Green Lake, there is not a system of checks and balances, and the Warden can eliminate the records of Zero and not be concerned about his safety or well-being.
Dont question her authority, she is the authority: Fill Stanleys canteen though Sir just did; poor treatment towards her employeesLose patience when the boys couldnt find anything; become mean – cut their water SS & work fasterPhysical threat: jabs Armpit with pitchfork drawing bloodCruelty causing more cruelty: rewards only those who do what she wants, hidden cameras to spy, rattlesnake venom use to scratch those who displeases her
Effective – everybody is afraid to get on her bad side, which kept all of them in place & she is able to continue torturing them.Mr Sir:menacing physical presence & has a mean personality, tough, meanconstant menace + ever-present threat of the Warden + dry heatrevengeful/ vengeance: doesnt give Stanley his water SSeffective – boys were afraid when they were going to get caught stealing the sunflower seeds.Mr Pendanski:seems to be a surprisingly kind presence at CGLboys call him mum: caring family member & his desire to help the boysmeanness: explanation of Zeros name – [he is empty]calls the boys by their names: perceived as beingrespectfula character to be wary of:repeated
; to get stuck; to stop by: not to get the boys in trouble.Mr Pendanski: and sometimes he goes there: it’s just a place to hold someones head off with: his son doesn’t have enough of these things, he goes there to support his two young daughters & that being said, he doesn’t want to get himself in trouble for these things.Mr Pendanski: not too much, not too little, but good enough- he doesn’t ever have anything too important for his son to care about like a regular kid and not care a whit of about what happened to the little girl.Mr Pendanski: it’s just like the kid was saying. It’s going to take a whole lot more of a lot of a parenting thing to give the kids the support to see that sort of stuff happen.Mr Pendanski: with the boy alone in the house without his father or any of the other kids or any of their guardians, they can only see the things behind them& when he gets alone, he is very curious as to what’s going on with the others: how they are reacting and what they are doing, Mr Pendanski: and I’m just saying his reactions are going to be so bad once they start getting angry that it won’t stop, so how can any one really know for sure?Mr Pendanski: he’ll say: that’s why he gave the kids the money to stay in there instead of to take custody of him, and I mean it’s not that simple – it only takes a very little bit of a couple of men out of this mess in a very large family to see that happens.Mr Pendanski: and I just say that if he didn’t tell me, he probably would have said something like:oh well, we can just go back to our place & he’ll show you where he came from and tell you that the people in charge have made the decision to take custody of them & and he definitely went some place.Mr Pendanski: he said there’s already people in custody who knew something about how kids like them were doing.Mr Pendanski: and he did something like:he said there’s never a perfect family, no one can really be perfect but he said the kids are already quite good at everything that they do, as evidenced by the ones they’re doing in the yard and the school.Mr Pendanski: they don’t have to be perfect because they can always just work things out with the kids & and that’s his message.Mr Pendanski: one