
Irony: After leaving Camp Green Lake and having access to a working TV again, Zigzag doesn't watch any shows.Happy Ending Override: At the end of Holes, Camp Green Lake is closed, However, now the camp is open again, and the in-universe reason why the guide is being written is that people read Stanley's book and thought that Camp Green Lake was such a great idea, they should open it again.Now that his sentence is over, he has to return to school and finds it difficult to readjust to the outside world. X-Ray adapted too well to Camp Green Lake and essentially became its inmates' leader.Stanley published his book officials read it, thought "What a great idea!", and reopened the camp for boys and another camp for girls with the original staff back in charge. The suggestion is taken, but instead of three minutes of water, there are now only two, allowing the Warden to save a minute of water each. Armpit has a suggestion about the showers: that the four-minute shower should be changed so the water sprays for a minute, stops for one minute to allow them to apply soap, then restart for three minutes to finish.On his first hole he digs faster than any of the other boys and guzzles down all his water, but he quickly tires out and soon is in too much pain and thirst to keep digging. Fragile Speedster: Twitch turns out to be this.E-Z himself got into Camp Green Lake for beating up a man and his dog because the dog pooped in front of his skateboard.


E-Z tries "changing the channel" and Zigzag smashes his hand into the dial button so hard, the ridges on it cut his hand open. Zigzag is obsessed with the broken TV in the wreck room, even though it never plays anything.Was it from a fight? Stepping on a shovel? Not bathing? The right answer is still "The tent door slammed in your face." Cut Himself Shaving: The default answer for every question about an injury at Camp Green Lake is: "I slammed the tent door on it." This point is further emphasized when a quiz is held asking the reader how you got a black eye.Breaking the Fourth Wall: Stanley notably asks the reader to keep an eye out for Barf Bag, who ran away, and tell him it's safe to come home.Beware the Nice Ones: Remember that even the seemingly harmless ones were arrested for good reason.Berserk Button: Don't touch anything in a camper's private box.As the title indicates, it is a guide to surviving the juvenile detention facility Camp Green Lake, presented in-character by the protagonist Stanley. Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake is a spinoff of Holes by Louis Sachar.
