Preview
Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Summarize Stanley's first hour in the order the chapter stages it — bus, signs, office, search, rules, tour. Then state the chapter's thesis as you read it: the single claim about Camp Green Lake that every scene of this hour quietly enforces. Defend your formulation against one rival reading, with the order of events as your evidence.
Discussion Questions
- The chapter lets us study this man before he names himself: feet on the desk, sunglasses indoors, the rattlesnake tattoo, then 'My name is Mr. Sir.' What does that doubled title let him claim or hide that an ordinary name would not? Why might Sachar delay the name until after the description? Use the chapter's words from the introduction scene as your evidence.
- Mr. Sir's briefing is, as far as the chapter shows, entirely true: no fence, the only water for a hundred miles, thirst for eighteen months — yet it never says why the boys dig. Decide whether such selective candor treats Stanley more fairly than comfortable lies would, or whether truth rationed by power is control in a more durable form. State the strongest objection to your position, and use the chapter's words from the welcome to answer it.
+ 2 more questions in the complete study guide
Critical Thinking
+ 7 more questions in the complete study guide
Get the complete study guide — free
Sign up and get your first book with every chapter included. Copywork, discussion questions, vocabulary, and critical thinking.
Sign up free