Holes Louis Sachar Passages

The opening of Holes is effective for many reasons. There are more than just a few techniques that authors use to entice readers and I am going to be looking at those that Holes author Louis Sachar used.
The first sentence of the first chapter is very interesting as it is a contradictory phrase that confuses the reader and throws them off guard. A boy named Stanley Yelnats has been sent to a place named Camp Green Lake. However, confusingly, the first sentence simply states ‘there is no lake at camp green lake’. This is surely confusing and will leave readers wondering why this place would be named after a lake if there is no lake.
First sentence aside, the next section goes on to explain that there was once a lake at camp green lake but it