Chapter 6 Summary

The first person who Stanley meets is Mr. Sir, a rather abrasive official at the camp who tells him that he can try to run away if he wants, but that he will die of thirst and heat stroke before he gets to safety. Mr. Sir seems to have a relatively luxurious, lazy lifestyle in comparison with the boys at the camp, who eat disgusting food, sleep on smelly cots, and get a very limited amount of water to drink and to shower in.

Mr. Pendanski, another counselor at the camp, helps Stanley settle into his new home: D tent, where he is introduced to his six tent-mates. All the boys at the camp go by strange nicknames like "Magnet," "Zero," and "Armpit," and refuse to answer to their normal names. None of the other boys at Camp Green Lake believe that Stanley was arrested for stealing such a famous baseball player's shoes, and Stanley thinks it's funny that no one believed him back in the city when he said he didn't steal them.