Characters In The Book Holes

This young boy’s name is Huckleberry Finn, and he is brave and yearning for adventure. He begins the story with a newly acquired fortune, but goes back to living in rags and in a barrel. Huckleberry is convinced by his best friend, Tom Sawyer, to go back to living with “The Widow” so that he can join Tom’s newly created band of robbers. The Widow Douglas is a woman who takes Huckleberry as her son and does her best to “sivilize” him: teaching him how to behave and forcing him to go to school. Huckleberry slips off and joins “The Tom Sawyer Gang” and pretends to rob people for about a month before he resigns. All this time, Huckleberry is getting used to living with the widow, even admitting that he likes it a little bit. Then, one day, his father shows up, demanding his fortune and eventually taking him to his log cabin, hidden in the woods. There Huck hunts and fishes, but is not permitted to leave. Eventually, “pap got too handy with his hick’ry” so Huck escapes down the river when his father is drunk. Huck hides on Jackson’s Island and meets Jim, The Widow’s slave. Huck learns that Jim had run away from The Widow and so they decide to help each other out. But when Huck learns of a plan to search the island, they leave down the river. Several days later, they almost run into some robbers on a wrecked steamboat and manage to escape with their loot. When Huck and Jim land on the bank

The description of Stanley’s personality pictures him as an animalistic and primitive male. There are several references to animals such as ‘Animal joy’ and ‘feathered male bird among hens’, this quote in particular describes Stanley very well. ‘Feathered male among hens’ is evidence that Stanley is often the leader of the group and maintains dominance as the pack

The novel begins with Stanley being wrongly accused of stealing a pair of sneakers owned by a famous baseball player. Due to his adversity, Stanley is sent to a juvenile detention facility ironically named Camp Green Lake. This camp resides in the middle of a desert, and is composed of disobedient kid who are forced to dig holes to“build character”. Stanley possess several Christlike traits, such as: his wounded and blistered hands from digging so many holes, the agony he possessed from dehydration and all of the physical labor he was subjected to, Stanley’s optimistic and self sacrificing character who risked death to save his friend Zero, Stanley’s patient and cordialness with other kids, (this trait is especially displayed when he is teaching his friend Zero to read) Stanley’s kindheartedly when he shared his sparing amounts of food and water with Zero, Stanley use of humble transportation due to his family's reduced budget, Stanley was last seen with the thieving kids of the camp and the thieving camp administrators, and finally,when Stanley returned to the camp, full of kids who committed several crimes and freed them from their grueling jobs of digging holes. In conclusion, characters, such as Stanley Yelnats IV are paralleled to Jesus Christ to exemplify their suffering, hopefulness, and other divine character

Matt Berman from Common Sense Media commented, “This richly textured novel, woven from the strands of small-town life, lets readers walk in the shoes of one fully realized character after another.” To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, one of the major messages is identity. Harper Lee lets the people look into the perspectives and identity of some of the characters that make it seem very life-like. In the novel, many characters possess both admirable and dislikable qualities which are shown through their actions. With the nurturing of her father, Scout contains the charming qualities of being courage and mature for her age. The father that instilled these characteristics in Scout, is Atticus Finch. While dealing with the stressful case of Tom Robinson, Atticus maintains to keep the likable aspects of sympathy and strong will. The antagonist in this novel fighting against Tom Robinson is Bob Ewell. Bob Ewell has instilled, in him, the terrible qualities of cruelty and racism. These life-like characters that Harper Lee illustrates gives people a clear vision of who the characters portray.

aggression of Stanley (who is based on his father). His father- similar to Stanley- was very

First of all, Andy faces all the brutal hardships by being composed and self possessed. Andy is a even- tempered person and he handles every situation with solicitude. When, during his trail, “ Andy [takes] the stand in his own defense and tells his story calmly, coolly and dispassionately”. This unemotional response further makes the society think Andy is arrogant but, he actually tries to think ahead and solve his problems. Furthermore, after coming to jail Andy faces many problems and yet he stays strong mentally. Even during the times “his lower lip was swelled up so big that it looked like a summer sausage”, he endured the pain and tried to hope for the best. In other words, Andy’s unique characteristics makes him different from the rest

The first conflict the reader sees in Holes is Man versus Society. This conflict is mainly between Stanley and the town’s people. For examples, when stanley says, “I stole a pair of sneakers.” everyone did not believed it (squid and X-Ray) it shows that this crime was not big enough to put him to camp green lake but, it belong to clyde livingston. This conflict is resolved when the judge puts him to camp green lake for 18 months.

It is impossible for the minor characters in Ragged Dick to have a fair chance at being recognized as decent members of society because of the emphasis Horatio Alger Jr. places on Dick Hunter. The better qualities of Dick are constantly being reminded to the reader, giving them little room to disagree with Alger’s heroic portrayal of him. Horatio Alger Jr.’s preference to homosexuality also reflects his choice in excluding any useful female characters in his novel. Minor characters lack understanding from readers because information surrounding them is absent, causing them to be judged on face value alone.

Huckleberry Finn is the main character, in the story, the reader gets a view of and judges the South, its faults, and its redeeming qualities. Huck's companion Jim, a runaway slave, provides friendship and protection while the two journey along the Mississippi on their raft. Huck Finn describes what has happened to him since, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which comes before this book. Huck and Tom discovered twelve thousand dollars in treasure and Judge Thatcher invested the money for them. Huck was adopted by the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson, both of them tried very hard to try and raise him correctly and civilized. Unhappy with his new life, and wishing for the freedom he used to know, Huck runs away to the woods. Tom Sawyer finds him and

In this story a kid is accused of stealing and he is trying to clear his name. In this book, Holes by Louis Sacher, Stanley is trying to prove he is innocent of stealing a pair of shoes. I believe the theme of Holes is perseverance, because of in the story Stanley rebels against the counselors and, has to survive the desolate wasteland of Camp Green Lake which then leads to Stanley overcoming his fears.

Stanley Yelnats calls himself an unlucky child. His word is proven when he is sent to Camp Green Lake for something he didn’t even do. Stanley was walking on the street when a pair of shoes fell down and hit him on the head. Those shoes turned out to be Clyde “Sweet Feet” Livingston’s shoes that he has donated to a shelter. Stanley is sent to court, charged with robbery and has a choice of going to prison, or to Camp Green Lake. Stanley thinks Camp Green Lake is a better choice. Stanley travels to Camp where he meets some friends in group D.

Ichabod Crane is portrayed as an interesting, complex character in the story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Crane is an excellent example of how not everyone is exactly how they seem. His slippery, dark personality can not easily be identified on paper in the story, but Irving made sure the message was deeper than it is on paper. Many readers understand the big plot and the exciting timeline of this story, but what is communicated underneath is what is often looked over. Irving, by writing a comical phenomenon, solidified himself as being one of the best writers of his era, but what really stood out was what he used the character of Ichabod Crane to communicate about society.

In chapter 28 to 30 in novel Hole, by Louis Sachar, it start with the story of Kate Barlow who was coming back to Green Lake after twenty years later and she realized everything was changed. She decides to stay in the little cabin, but she was soon founded by Trout Walker and Linda Miller who were looking for Kate to steal her stuff. They torture her to know where she put her treasure but she died because of yellow-spotted lizard. From the chapter 29, the story came back to Stanley’s camp life and explained how the weather changed worse than before. Furthermore, other boys started to tease Stanley because they didn’t like Zero to dig Stanley’s hole, and finally they fight together. Zero tried to save Stanley from Zigzag but everyone treat Zero

In "To Build a Fire," Jack London expresses his perspective of the multitude of greenhorns who flocked to the yukon in a rush for gold. It is evident that he believed that these newcomers were too inexperienced and blinded by gold fever to survive the trip. Like many of them, "the Man" is driven by his own foolish ego to act irrationally and to not follow wise advice. Though his consience continually nags at him, his ego-driven way of thought keeps pushing him blindly forward. The Man is not only representative of other fortune hunters like himself, but he also repersents every person on this planet. All of us, at some point in time, pushed our own consience aside and followed our own selfish ego.

The main character in The Fault in Our Stars by John Green happens to be Hazel Grace Lancaster. Since Hazel along with her close friends are diagnosed with different types of cancer their hometown goes hand in hand with it: support group in the church, the hospital, and every once in awhile it’s each other’s homes, leading a quite depressing life. In fact, as the novel opens up, Hazel’s mother has the mindset that her daughter is depressed, due to reasons such as when Hazel stated, “I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death” (Green 1). Hazel claims that although depression is almost always listed as a side effect of cancer, she considers it not but yet a side effect of dying. On the other hand, her physical appearance; she’s a seventeen year old- on the verge of dying from thyroid cancer which had only spread throughout her lungs since she had got diagnosed with it at the age of thirteen, has a short pixie haircut with dark brown hair, chubby cheeks, is thin and pale due to the cancer, and is described to having green eyes. Some of what is stated above is shown when it says, “I had this pageboy haircut, and I hadn’t even bothered to, like, brush it. Furthermore, I had ridiculously fat chipmunked cheeks, a side effect of treatment” (Green 9). Overall, even after meeting Augustus, since they are cancer kids, they are