Stanley and Zero stay on the mountain for a few more days. They sleep and eat onions and Zero slowly gets better. As they cannot live on the mountain forever, they decide to go back to the camp one last time to search for the treasure the Warden is after. Therefore, they collect some onions and fill water in the jars Zero found and start their long way back to the camp. They eventually arrive there in the afternoon and hide in holes till it is dark. Stanley still remembers the whole where he found the tube with the initials K. B. and they begin to dig. At about 3 o´clock in the morning they find a suitcase. Just as Stanley hands the suitcase to Zero the Warden arrives. She obviously saw them digging. She wants Zero to give her the suitcase since that´s what she has been looking for all her life. But Zero refuses and suddenly there are poisonous lizards on both Stanley and Zero. Since they usually kill their victims immediately the Warden and the other gurads decide to wait. Yet, nothing happens (lizards do not like the smell of onions) and in the morning a car with two people comes. It is Stanley´s attorney and he is told that he can go home since he was found unguilty a few days ago. After a while Stanley is able to set himself free of the lizards and is ready to go. Yet, he refuses to leave Zero behind. Zero managed to keep the suitcase since he was able to read that the name written on the suitcase was Stanely´s. As the Warden is unable to prove that Zero has to be in the camp (his files were deleted after he ran into the desert) Stanley´s attorney takes both the boys home. That´s as well the point where Zero is calles by his original name Hector again.
This shows again that the characters are only losers inside the camp. Of course, both Hector and Stanley are still underachievers who are not accepted by the society. However, the camp made their situation even worse.
Inside the suitcase, which once belonged to Stanley´s great- grandfather, are stock certificates and therefore both Hector and Stanley receive a little under one million each. Stanley uses the money to buy a bigger house for his family and Hector pays an investigator to search for his mother since he diappeared when he was about 5 years old and was already living on the streets. Stanley´s dad invents something that eliminates bad foot odour with peach smell the day after Stanley carried Hector up the mountain. Hector is the great- grandson of the fortune teller that cursed Stanley´s great- granddad. Now the curse is broken.
The camp is closed.
Thursday, 12 November 2009
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