Whatever goes around comes around
...hat if Elya failed the promise, he and his descendants would be doomed for all eternity. Bad lucks had begun to follow the Yelants’ family after Elya broke the promise. Elya’s forgetfulness would forever be a black dot in his lifetime that would never be wiped off. Moreover, the Warden was the other one who got punished for her great-great-grandfather’s bad deeds. The Walker’s biggest mistook was “killing Sam”. After that, no matter how hard had the Walkers tried to get Kate, or to dig out the past, they all got nothing. Indeed, when once a person had done the wrong thing, the punishment might last forever. God only punished the one who was actually wrong. Who was the one had done wrong? Those people who used to live in Camp Green Lake hundred years ago would point at Sam. In their village, knowledge, and the community, it was against the law for a Negro to kiss a white woman. Almost everyone agreed to punish Sam. They even hoped the God would punish Kate. However, Sam and Mary Lou both got shot, Kate’s heart got broken and no one could ever fix it. Since then, there wasn’t any drop of rain has fall on Camp Green Lake. The Lake finally dried out without rain; people couldn’t live there no more. Everyone is equal under the God’s eyes. Who did God punished? Not Sam, not Kate, but those people in Camp Green Lake. There should always be rewards for the kindest heart. Just like what Zero said, Stanley didn’t steal the sunflower seeds, and he didn’t steal the sneakers. Stanley got punished without the truth. It was the fate for Stanley to go to Camp Green Lake and dig holes. Not just dig holes or learn a lesson, Stanley had been sent there to dig out the truth and the history of Green Lake, which was one of the reward. Stanley’s achievement made the others had to dig no more holes....