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Narration Prompt
Summarize the chapter's eight sentences as the argument they make, then name the central tension Sachar is building between the camp's theory of boys and the boy it is about to receive. Evaluate whether the chapter earns its claims or merely charms us into granting them — and mark the sentence where you decided.
Discussion Questions
- Why does the chapter leave 'some people' unnamed when it gives their theory such clear wording? Use the theory itself and the sentence that follows it to argue what the anonymity makes easier for the narrator to do with this idea at Camp Green Lake.
- The judge's offer — 'You may go to jail, or you may go to Camp Green Lake' — is the chapter's only quoted speech, and it is addressed to a boy whose family the next sentence calls poor. What does the offer's formula reveal about how institutions speak to people without resources, and why might the chapter place the poverty fact directly after the quotation? Use the chapter's words and their order as your evidence.
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