Long Story Short... As Short As It Could Be(Looking back-Part 2)

Stanley becomes friends with Zero, a boy who has been seen as nothing by everybody, including Stanley. Zero wants Stanley to teach him how to read and write and he will dig a part of Stanley’s hole everyday in return. Stanley accepts the deal.

Then we get to know the story of  Kate Barlow, a pretty schoolteacher who turned into a crazy outlaw after the people of Green Lake killed the man she loved because he was black. We also learn that she has a loot which the Warden wants to find and this is why she makes the boys dig holes.

This deal bothers the other boys. They start to mess with Stanley by saying things like  ‘Hey Caveman!You should get a whip.Then if your slave doesn’t dig fast enough, you can sross it across his back.’ One day  this conflicts go a little bit further and turns into a fight between Stanley and Zigzag. Zero involves to fight to protect Stanley. Then the Warden steps in. Zero just runs away. After a few days Stanley goes after him. He founds Zero under a boat upside down. Then they decide to go to God’s Thumb, the weird part of the mountain, where Stanley’s great grandfather found relief hundred years ago after Kate Barlow robbed him.


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Since I got all the information about Green Lake, I used my awesome skills in Paint again and made a perfect map for my dear followers.