Holes: A Short Story

Stanley is a boy who goes to a juvenile detention center after being accused of stealing Clyde Livingston’s shoes. Everyday Every day he’s there he has to dig a hole to learn character. Several centuries before he arrives, every day he’s there he has to dig a hole to learn character. Several centuries before he arrives, his grandfather, Stanley Yelnats how to curse put on him after not walking bottoms are only up the mountain for a drink in the stream. In Camp Green Lake. In this story, Stanley changes a lot. When he comes from big and weak to skinny and strong. He also has a big personality change during his time at Camp Green Lake as well as a life-changing discovery.

Would you like to make ten thousand dollars selling a boat. In hole in my life by Jack Gantos a young boy named Jack makes a fatal mistake of jumping into things for money. Jack grew up in a rather poor neighborhood with next to no education. His impulsive nature and lack of basic knowledge affects all the decisions he makes from start to finish. Jacks poor emotional skills lead him down a crazy dark path. His lack of skills results in bad decisions which get him in with a bad crowd of people. In this group Jack’s judgement is severely clouded and in result he makes a fatal mistake of getting involved with the drug world. Jack’s entry started well but ends up behind bars.

Have you ever been falsely accused of something you didn't do? Well, this happens in the realistic fiction book, Holes by Louis Sachar. I strongly believe that you should read this well developed book, for it has fascinating characters, the great message, and the astounding plot. The 14 year old and main protagonist of the story named Stanley Yelnats goes through a series of unfortunate events that leads him into an abusive camp. He is overweight, lonely in school, and gets bullied frequently. In the camp, the requirement every day is to dig a hole five feet deep, and five feet across in every direction. Because of the many kids in the camp, the landscape is full of holes, and looks dry and beat up. Stanley eventually finds out there is more

The main character's name is Stanley Yelnats. At first, you see stanley as an alright kid who has made a bad decision stealing. “ I stole some sneakers” (pg 22). Throughout the rest of the story you find that stanley is nice and always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. “He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time all thanks to his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather” (Pg 7). At school before camp Green Lake he was bullied and treated bad. “he didn’t have any friends at home, he was overweight” (pg 7). At camp Green Lake Stanley made a new friend, his best friend “Zero”. He get’s along great with Zero and teaches him how to read. “I’ll try

R/s it was reported that Elian’s (6) stepbrother (11) forced his penis in her mouth. R/s there was a second incident when the stepbrother licked Elian’s vagina and butt. R/s Kacie (mom) made a report to Chester County Sheriff’s Office regarding the sexual assault.

These young protagonists in coming of age stories seem to feel like they are treated like kids and want to act more like adults to show they are more mature than the adults think. Evidence of this is in short stories like Through the Tunnel, The Intruder, and The Grave. The Grave is a story about a brother and sister at the ages of nine and twelve hunting in the nearby woods where they find some graves and shoot an animal. The Intruder is about a brother and his older sister, where the sister invites the boyfriend over to hang out. The boyfriend will leave and the siblings will head to bed, where young Kenneth shoots what he thinks is a intruder. The last story Through the Tunnel is about a young boy who wants to be able to swim like some

Dean wasn’t sure how long he’d been wandering around the campus. The last shot of tequila was burning a hole in his stomach lining, and he was highly aware of the sloshing liquid with every step he took. The urge to spill his stomach contents on to the floor was overwhelming, but the nagging voice warning of a vomit penalty, helped to still the indigestion. The Speedsters took their alcohol intake seriously. They were like a dilapidated diesel engine drinking the juice. Real gas guzzlers. If tonight had been their initiation ceremony, he didn’t fancy sticking around to find out what a punishment looked like.

When we think back on the mistakes we have made in life did any of them have a good outcome? For young Stanley Yelnats in Holes by Louis Sachar, a mistake turned his life around. The mistake put him in a bad place, but by the end of the story he had actually ended up with many good outcomes. Stanley benefitted from many things from the mistake made by Hector Zeroni. Stanley made a friend, received/ found a treasure, and also bettered himself as a person. Even though he got pulled into a mess he did not let it destroy him as a person. He strived to better himself and those around him. In the beginning of the story Stanley is a timid, bigger built, loving, and caring boy; but as the story progresses he begins to change. Stanley’s personality

“Yet, walking down the path with her, he blurted out, ‘I’d like to go and have a look at those rocks down there,’’ (Lessing 1). During the short story, “Through the Tunnel,” Lessing shows that Jerry has an interest in breaking away from his mother early on in the story. He shows a passion for wanting to go to the wild bay, instead of staying with his mother at the safe beach for their vacation. Jerry’s transformation from boy to a young man is revealed in the settings of the safe beach, wild bay, and the journey through the tunnel.

One day there was a leopard named Spots, who was trying to find something to eat. Spots was the cruelest leopard in the jungle and loved to boss everyone around. Spots finally found a little mouse eating a piece of fruit. When Spots was about to catch the mouse, he slipped and the mouse dashed away. Spots was very disappointed so he headed home to take a nap.

Would you have enough courage to travel to the scene of a murder just to get your precious cleats back? In Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams, 13-year-old Ingrid goes through all of that trouble just for her adored, red Puma soccer cleats. Ingrid Levin-Hill, a resident of present day Echo Falls, Connecticut is a preeminent soccer player, stellar actor, and a super sleuth. When Ingrid’s mother is late to get her for soccer she decides to run to the fields, but ends up getting lost in the Flats, an older part of town. Within the Flats lives Katherine Kovac, known to children as “Cracked Up Katie”, who notices Ingrid is in distress and invites her in while she calls her a cab. Meanwhile Ingrid decides to put on her cleats to save time, since

One day Colten woke up to his dad banging pans together. It sounded like a wild circus, but it sounded like this every year around this time. Every year Colten’s family wake up at 5:00 and go camping by this cool lake surrounded by it was a huge forest and that was today. Colten hate’s camping every year.

They did it! They finally did it! The wormhole was open and it was stable. The scientists had seconds to celebrate before a figure fell through the wormhole  to the floor of the room. They all leaned over the control pad to look through the bulletproof glass. The figure tried to move, but fell back to the floor.

Hey, thanks again for playing with me today. Although it was a very LONG day, I'm glad we got back out on the course to enjoy the good weather.

Danny ran through the dark, empty streets panting like an exhausted greyhound. His heart thudded like a drum pumping adrenaline faster and faster around his aching body.