First Impressions about the Novel 'Holes'-2

I would like to tell you also about the context, how the story began, and my first impressions about it.

A young middle school boy called Stanley is sent to the Camp Green Lake Juvenile Correctional Facility because he is thought that he committed a crime, and he thinks, naturally, that he is being sent to a camp at edge of a lake. We learn that Stanley didn't committed a crime, at least as he states that, and he blames only his misfortune for the situation and also for lots of unlucky events he experienced in his life, derived from his 'no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather'. He has problems with his social environment and having friends. He's made fun of his fatness and behaved as a loser. (like all main character personalities whose situation gets very well at the end of story). He is suprised, of course, when he arrives at the camp and saw a barren wasteland, a desert. He met the boys staying in the same tent with him, calling themselves with unusual names like Armpit, Squid, X-Ray and Zero. Interestingly, he doesn't behaved as a loser by them and he joins to 'the squad' at the end of the next day. Then the author starts to tell us about Stanley's Latvian great-great-grandfather and how he was cursed by a Gypsy because he didn't keep his promise. Until this point of story, it seems the introduction part of the story ended, because we can't make any predictions about what is coming next. But as I also expressed it in the second entry, the effectiveness of the introduction part (especially the first chapters can be realized well, as the reader feels very curious about what comes next, and that makes the reading unstressful and immersive.

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Stanley Yelnats in the movie 'Holes' (2003).