Week 17:
Summariser:
The story continues with Stanley and Zero still out in the deserted nowhere. Zero gets better and tells Stanley the story behind him stealing the shoes. Zero tells that he was homeless before he came to Camp Green Lake. He often went to the homeless shelter that Clyde Livingston's shoes were in. One day Zero took the shoes because he thought it was better to take a pair of old shoes than to steal a pair of new shoes. He couldn't read the sign explaining whose shoes they were. Zero was wearing the shoes when people at the shelter discovered they were stolen. Everyone was so upset about the stolen shoes that Zero ran outside and placed the shoes on top of a parked car. And that's the beginning of the story on how the shoes landed in Stanley's hands.
In the next chapter Stanley and Zero decides to dig a hole, in hope to find water and they succeed. Stanley realizes that he is happier than he has ever been before. He means that he's happy he got arrested because now he has a friend like Zero, and he likes himself as well. Stanley thinks about secretly returning to camp and digging up the treasure that may be in the hole where he found the lipstick container. Maybe he could find the other treasure that the Warden was so eager to find.
Zero and Stanley then prepare themselves and plan to return to Camp in an attempt to dig up the mysterious treasure and then escape. They wait until the next day before leaving. While they wait, Zero tells Stanley more about his life. He says that he remembers his mother singing him the same song that Stanley sang, only with different words. Zero also explains to Stanley about how his mother left him. They reach camp and hide near the hole that Stanley found the lipstick tube in.
After dark, when everybody is asleep, they jump up out of the hole and Stanley starts to dig in the hole he had found the lipstick tube in. While he's doing that, Zero sneaks into camp to get water and food. After what seems to be ages according to Stanley, they finally found the treasure, witch turns out to be a suitcase. But just as they prepare to leave, Mr Sir, the Warden and Mr Pedanski shows up and they got caught. The Warden shines a flashlight on Zero, who is holding the suitcase until she sees that there is a deadly yellow-spotted lizard on the suitcase. Stanley realises he is standing in a lizard's nest. Meanwhile Mr. Sir tells Stanley that Stanley's lawyer had shown up the day before to say that Stanley is innocent of stealing the shoes. But Stanley doesn't care about that. Later a woman shows up. The woman says she is Stanley's lawyer and tells the Warden that she will file charges against the camp. To defend herself, The Warden says that Stanley stole the suitcase that Zero is holding, witch clearly isn't the truth. When the sun finally comes out, the lizards crawl away from Stanley and Zero and the warden tries to take the suitcase from them, but then Zero shows everyone the other side of the suit case where Stanley's name is printed.
Later, Stanley's lawyer tells Stanley not to open the suitcase and that he can leave freely. But Stanley refuses to leave without Hector. After awhile Ms Morengo decides to also take Hector with her. On their way home in the car, ms Morengo tells the story on how she found out that Stanley was innocent after all and for the first time in 100 years, rain falls over camp green lake.
The book ends with Stanley and Zero getting an amount of money for the things that they found in the suitcase. With the money, Stanley decides to buy a new house for his family. The last pages of the book is written like an epilogue and you read about a party held at Stanley's new house with all his family and friends. He sits in the couch next to none other then the famous Clyde Livingston as they all together watch the commercial for his dad's new product that he finally succeeded with. And that's how the story about Stanley's interesting adventure ends.
Digging up the truth may be one of the theories about what the book is about more than just the idea of the holes. In the beginning they mention a lot of things about kiss'n Kate Barlow, his great great great grandfather, and I have always thought about that all of those things meant something or held away a truth
