My First Impressions

Hi everybody,

This is my first entry for my first ever blog. So , I’m pretty nervous. I hope you like what I write and enjoy reading my blog.

After reading first ten chapters, I could barely be able to write something. Just after reading first pages , I thought it’s an ordinary and boring child book that always has an overweight , outsider boy or girl as the protagonist. Such a book usually ends with protagonist’s being liked and considered as a normal person. Due to the fact that I thought it is such an ordinary book, I had doubts about reading it and was in the opinion that this book was no different than the book “ Big Mouth And Ugly Girl” that we dealt with in the summer. I hope this book is not as pessimistic as I predict but at least an enjoyable book.

“If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into good boy. That was what some people thought. ” p:15 l:15
This is the philosophy of the Camp Green Lake. I found this idea senseless and illogical. After all this , I sank into despair that I won’t enjoy reading this book.   You can understand the picture I imagined with this sentence. “The land was barren and desolate.”p:14 l:9 
 This sentence reminded me of the film “ Rabbit-Proof Fence”. The plot may also be similar. Maybe Stanley and his friends will try to escape and will have to walk through a desert without having any water.

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Nonetheless, recent events changed my bad opinion and first impression about the book. I was even thinking why he chose the camp instead of jail. At least , he wouldn’t be supposed to work under the nerve-wracking sunlight. Friendly counselor, Mr. Pendanski, changed my opinion that neither people in the camp nor the environment of the camp can be good . Due to his and other children’s friendly and helpful attitude, I lost my negative standpoint and was filled with hopes of enjoying reading the book.

I need to read more to make the questions in my mind clear.
Can Stanley and his friends escape from the camp?

Will Stanley have an enjoyable and unremarkable time in the camp or just agonizing time?

Can digging holes help youngsters improve their charecters ?

Answers lie in the next pages. If you are curios about the answers,just wait for my next entry. See you soon!

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