Holes By Lewis Sachar

In the beginning, Stanley is overweight and he is insecure. Stanley has such a low self esteem that something as small as digging a hole could make him feel stronger “he knew it was nothing to be proud of but he felt proud nonetheless.” (Sachar 40) This shows how Stanley praises himself over the small things. Stanley is also overweight so, “Stanley weighed three times as much as the other boy.” (Sachar 7) This states how he was compared to this kid and how Stanley is overweight. Being overweight and bullied makes Stanley insecure. Stanley is so scared so, “Stanley stared up at him terrified.” (Sachar 20) Someone pushed

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

Stanley is insecure at the beginning for many different reasons. One reason why I think he's insecure is the part from the book that says, “ No one liked him and the truth was he especially didn’t like himself.” (Sachar 186) Although this part may be from a later part in the book it still proves that he was insecure of the way he thinks about himself. My second evidence that shows his insecurity is the part that says, “He didn't have any friends at home. He was overweight and the kids at school tease him about his size.” (Sachar 7) Sachar shows Stanley’s insecurity with this quote because it shows that he’s insecure with making friends at home and was bullied

Stanley was a boy in middle school who was overweight. He got teased, was cursed, and unlucky. Could his life get worse? In fact, it did and he was accused of a crime he did not commit. He got sent to Camp Green Lake where he had a chance to change his life. Stanley was cursed from his great- great grandfather who stole a pig. Later in Stanley’s life, Stanley goes through many difficult times. Throughout Louis Sachar’s novel, Holes, Stanley is characterized as unlucky, overweight, and weak, but by encountering people, changes, and difficulties, Stanley is now lucky, fit, and caring by the end.

It is not always about what is on the outside but what is on the inside. He has always been loving and caring but through this rough time in his life it is shown a lot. He shows this side to his family and also his new friends. After Stanley was done taking the blame for the spilt sunflower seeds and zero digging Stanley’s hole for him, Stanley showed Zero he cared for him; he agreed to teach him to read. “I’ll try to teach you to read if you want,” Stanley offered. “I don’t know how to teach, but I’m not worn-out today, since you dug a lot of my hole.” (Sachar, 96.) Stanley was grateful for what Zero had done for him and wanted to repay the favor and help him out as well. When Stanley left for camp his mom gave him pen and paper so he could write her and tell her how it was going. By writing to his mom and telling her that he was okay, even though he lied about what he was doing he showed he cared for his parents. “Dear Mom and Dad, Camp is hard, but challenging. We’ve been running obstacle courses, and have to swim long distances on the lake. Tomorrow we learn” (Sachar, 81.) As the story comes to an end Stanley really cares about Zero and refuses to leave camp without him. He gets his lawyer to ask for files and after the Attorney General could not find his files they took Zero home with them. “C’mon Stanley,” said his lawyer. “Your parents are waiting.” Stanley stayed where he was.”

Yelnats, he lives in a small house with his mom, dad, and his grandfather. During the novel there is a part where the narrator explains how when he was walking home from school he a pair of shoes fall out from nowhere, he picks them up and started walking and the police ran after him, the police started accusing him that he stole them. Stanley family had always had bad luck thanks to his no-good-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. Stanley went off to camp and actually made some friends, not like where he lived where a boy smaller than him bullied him for being fat. Stanley got to choose if he wanted to go to jail or if he wanted to go to a camp, he

At the beginning, Stanley is a very compassionate and empathetic person, even showing empathy for the bus driver when going to camp, (page 13) even though he’s on the way to a juvenile correctional facility. Though, he was often a pushover and very insecure. In chapter 13, page 63, he gave X-Ray his own discovery, the K.B. tube, just because he was desperate for a friendship and didn’t want to get on his bad side.

Stanley was poor so he never went to camp so he took the option of camp green lake. Can green lake isn’t actually a lake it is all dirt there hasn’t been water there for a really long time. When Stanley gets to camp green lake he meets one of the main antagonist mr.sir who is on edge because he quit smoking. Mr. sir told Stanley “you are to dig one hole each, day including Saturday’s and sundays. Each hole must be five feet deep, and five feet across in every direction”. Some of the boys he meet at camp green lake are Zero, Magnet, armpit, and zig zag. Stanley also meets the camp counselor his name is mr. Pendanski. Some of the other kids tried to scare stanley. Soon after stanley would receive a nickname of his own which was

The first character trait Stanley shows is that he shows is kindness. He shows this by giving something he found in the hole he dug to X-Ray. “I think I might have found something.” said Stanley. “Instead of showing it to Zig-Zag, he gave the tube to X-Ray.” Stanley was being kind and letting X-Ray have the day off for “finding” what Stanley found. This was very kind because digging the holes in Camp Green Lake on very harsh in conditions was not easy at all. It was a very big deal to get the day off and he gave

In the big streets of New York there is a boy named Stanley. He was a had a tremulous character when he was at school. Stanley was not the best looking person in the school nor was he the strongest. Whenever Stanley would come across the popular group he would burrow himself in his jacket hoodie. Stanley never tried for any sports or any group activities so he was not as popular as other people. Everybody in the school thought Stanley as an amiss boy.

Stanley was overweight in the beginning of the story. In this book Louis Sachar says “Stanley dug his shovel into the ground”(116). Stanley shows his anger as he digs his shovel in the ground in this text evidence. When Louis Sachar says “Stanley was from a poor family(5).

Stanley in the beginning of the story is uncaring, “He was overweight”(Sachar 7) That’s showing Stanley didn’t care that is overweight and what he looks like. “Stanley had been impressed when he found out that his great-grandfather was robbed by kissin’ Kate Barlow,”(Sachar 10) Stanley’s great-grandfather could have been killed and Stanley could have not existed. “Oh,” he realized. “I stole a pair of sneakers.”(Sachar 22) Stanley is showing that he isn’t really telling the truth. Stanley isn’t that good at telling the truth and he shows that.

Stanley at the beginning of the novel was introverted. Here are the reason why Stanley was introverted. “ He didn’t have any friends at home “ (Sachar, 7) How does this show you how he was introverted? Well usually people with no friends don’t talk like introverted people. Another reason is, “ ‘Hey, uh Theodore.’ “

From the novel Holes by Louis Sachar, there are two different characters who mainly lead the story line. First person is Stanley, the main character of this novel. He is not a small boy compare to his own age, but he was not strong either. Therefore, he usually got bullied at school. He was born and raised in poor family, but his parents were nice and kind to him. Stanley's father is an inventor, but he didn't invent anything successful yet. Stanley went to Camp Green Lake because of the false charge of stealing expensive sneakers. He is not courageous at the beginning of the story, but he slowly become braver.

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