Charakter Analysis - Zero

Actually, Louis Sachar has described the characters in this book, with very strong attributes. First they seem very normal people, but than we learn their stories with their own characters.

   I think every person in this book has a very interesting character. Even the boys at Camp Green Lake has different personalities.

  

  Especially Zero’s character interests me. In the beginning we get to know him as a stupid boy. He doesn’t speak, smile much. Everyone at the Camp thinks that he is stupid, even Mr. Pendanski. Mr. Pendanski calls him Zero, too. Everyone behaves him like he doesn’t understand anything, because he doesn’t talk, but then he begins to speak with Stanley. He wants Stanley to teach him how to read and write.In return he help Stanley to dig his hole, because Zero digs very fast, and Stanley doesn’t get tired and can teach better.

  In the end we recognize that he isn’t a stupid boy, he is actually smart, works hard to figüre things out. He and Stanley become best friends. He tells Stanley his own life story, he lives on the Street, he lost his mom, but still he becomes a good person. I think that’s the important part of it.