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\u00a0 Mr. Pendanski is a counselor of Camp Green Lake, which is a place for boys who have committed crime to reform through digging holes.\u00a0 He is the counselor of one of the campers Stanley \u2013 the main character of the book Holes.\u00a0 He is also responsible for delivering water to the campers when they are digging.\u00a0 He is not an important character in the book, but I find his traits interesting.
\u00a0 The first impression Mr. Pendanski makes is being \u201cfriendly\u201d.\u00a0 When Stanley just arrives at the Camp, Mr. Pendanski shakes hands with him and talks to him gently, \u201cYou may have done some bad things, but that doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re a bad kid\u2026 I\u2019m going to help you turn your life around, but you\u2019re going to help, too.\u00a0 Can I count on your help?\u201d\u00a0 After Stanley nods, Mr. Pendanski takes him to the Camp and introduces him to his campmates.\u00a0 You can see Mr. Pendanski is trying to comfort and support Stanley.\u00a0 He also cares about the other campers.\u00a0 One day after digging, Mr. Pendanski gathers the boys and discusses their future with them.\u00a0 He tells them to prepare for joining the rest of society.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t look down on their dreams, and he stops one of the campers X-Ray from laughing at what another camper Magnet wants to be.
\u00a0 Mr. Pendanski seems to be a nice person.\u00a0 But then I start wondering if he is really that nice.\u00a0 There is another main character, a camper called Zero.\u00a0 He is quiet and digs fast.\u00a0 He also belongs to Mr. Pendanski\u2019s tent.\u00a0 Strangely, Mr. Pendanski doesn\u2019t treat him well.
\u00a0 During the conversation about the future of campers, Mr. Pendanski says, \u201cYou\u2019re all special in your own way.\u00a0 You\u2019ve all got something to offer.\u00a0 You have to think about what you want to do, then do it.\u201d\u00a0 Suddenly he attacks Zero, \u201cEven you, Zero. You\u2019re not completely worthless.\u201d\u00a0 This hurts Zero and his smile is suddenly gone. But Mr. Pendanski doesn\u2019t mind.\u00a0 On another day, when Mr. Pendanski knows that Stanley is teaching Zero to read, he says, \u201cI know you mean well, Stanley, but face it. Zero\u2019s too stupid to learn to read.\u201d\u00a0 After that he hands Zero a shovel, \u201cHere, take it, Zero.\u00a0 It\u2019s all you\u2019ll ever be good for.\u201d\u00a0 It is really humiliating.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know why, but Mr. Pendanski dislikes Zero especially.\u00a0 I see he is not completely a friendly person.\u00a0 He is biased.
\u00a0 Mr. Pendanski is not only biased.\u00a0 He is even a bit cruel.\u00a0 In part 2 of the story, when Zero runs away from Camp Green Lake, the Warden of the Camp and all others think he has died.\u00a0 The Warden orders Mr. Pendanski to destroy all of Zero\u2019s records. Mr. Pendanski nods and tells the Warden how he is going to erase Zero from the state files.\u00a0 He is willing to do this to make sure Zero \u2018doesn\u2019t exist\u2019.\u00a0 And later, when Zero, and Stanley who went to rescue him, return to Camp Green Lake and are trapped in a hole with deadly yellow-spotted lizards, Mr. Pendanski acts worse.\u00a0 He and the Warden wait for the boys to be bitten by the lizards.\u00a0 Then he says, \u201cMaybe we should just shoot them.\u201d\u00a0 Another counselor asks whether he means the lizards or the kids (Stanley and Zero).\u00a0 Unbelievably, Mr. Pendanski laughs and replies, \u201cThe kids are going to die anyway.\u00a0 At least we got plenty of graves to choose from.\u201d\u00a0 How cruel he is!\u00a0 And this is totally different from how he behaves at the beginning of the story.
\u00a0 So I realize Mr. Pendanski is hardly a good person.\u00a0 He is just a hypocrite.\u00a0 He is a wicked man.\u00a0 Although he is not as bad as the Warden or Mr. Sir, the two ruthless villains in Camp Green Lake, he is bad enough to be their friend.
\u00a0 These are what I have discovered from Mr. Pendanski.\u00a0 His character traits are in fact among the most interesting ones.\u00a0 They aren\u2019t complicated or inspiring.\u00a0 But from them we can see how a crafty person looks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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