Holes By Stanley Yelnats

Fences, written by August Wilson, is a play about a man, named Troy, struggling to support his family during the late 1950’s. In this play, we see that Troy hurts the people closest to him. He has been uncaring towards his wife, Rose, his brother Gabriel and his son, Cory. This is because Troy had nothing to go on but the harsh example set by his father. In Fences, Troy has felt like he has been fenced in all of his life, which causes him to fence others in.

In the Fences, by August Wilson shows that life of African Americans in the U.S. in the 1950s with the story of Troy and his family. Wilson uses the symbol of the fence to show the desires of each character like Rose’s desire is to keep her family together, Troy’s desire is to keep death out and to be not bound forever, and Bono’s desire is to follow Troy, his best friend, as an example of the right way to live and to be with Rose and Troy who are basically his family. Rose and the other seen characters represent people and show gender roles of the time, like Rose is a housewife, Troy is the provider. Also Cory is the new generation of emotion over responsibility, Gabriel represents the war heros that were permanently disabled from war

His dreams of college and desire to write became a living image for Jack Gantos. All he wanted to do was become a successful writer and pursue his dreams, he didn’t expect to make mistakes that would ruin his desire to write and dreams of going to college. Jack had made many mistakes in the memoir “Hole in My Life” however, he didn’t let that toxic environment ruin his goals and desire to become a writer one day. Although many people may not agree, I believe that it is likely for one to make mistakes, but harder for one to redeem from them. Redemption is necessary in order for mistakes to be interesting.

Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger. This story follows a young boy, who through hard work, determination, self-reliance, honesty and good character went from a homeless black-boot to a respectable, high paying job.  This story is filled with examples of what life was like in New York City, telling the us what he would find and experience in it. In Ragged Dick, This was a time of progress, change and falsehood in American History. This is when people really started to chase the illusive American dream, and Alger is trying to capture this rags-to-riches vision. The fact that the book takes place in New York is not enough to understand the full extent of this book. At this time many Americans were going through one of the hardest times in

Throughout history, civilizations have built fences to keep enemies out and keep those they want to protect inside. In society today, people create metaphorical fences in order to fence in their feelings, while others create literal fences in order to keep the unwanted away. In the play Fences, the Maxon family lives in 1950’s America whose love for sports and one another are questioned at times when they need to be together the most. In the play Fences by August Wilson, two main characters Troy and Cory Maxon build a fence, literally and metaphorically, which as the book progresses, becomes a symbol that allows each character to truly understand each other.

Flowers” by Alice Walker is a story that takes place around the 1800’s and it is about a Myop, who is a ten year old girl that lives in the country. She seems to be a very curious and observant as it describes her journey from her family’s Sharecropper cabin to the woods behind her house. Myop roams around the woods with not a care in the world and admires the beauty of her surroundings such as the blue flowers she discovers. However as she is exploring the land she stumbles across the remains of a black man who was lynched. The story “Sweetness” by Toni Morrison takes place in the 1990’s is about a mother who gives birth to a dark-skinned baby and is a ashamed of the child because of how society frowns upon a situation like her own.

A major theme in Holes is that something significant can come out of something unfortunate, such as that the power of fate can bring together a friendship that stands the test of time, this is demonstrated through the closeness of the two characters, Stanley and Zero. Stanley teaches Zero how to read and write as well as when Stanley puts his life on the line to save Zero who had ran away from camp into the unforgiving Texas desert.

In the novel Paper Towns by John Green there are three settings. One of the places is high school, another is Sea World, and the last one is Agloe, New York. The book starts off at high school. Quentin’s mom drops him off at school in the morning on her way to work.

In today’s society, sociopaths frequently play a big role in the business/political world. Sociopaths are people with personality disorders, who are usually charming, and have poor judgment (M. E. Thomas). Sociopaths usually are not able to tell right from wrong (LoveToKnow Corp). The film Window Of Opportunity, written and directed by Samuel Joseph, had a great example of what a sociopath would be like. The character Roger Sizemore in this film is a sociopath who believes he is the greatest due to the amount of money he has. This paper will describe the film and why the character Roger has sociopathic behaviors, and compare him to Bernie Madoff and Fred Goodwin.

Holes is about a place called camp green lake that doesn’t actually have a lake because it is dried out, it is where bad boys are sent to try to become better and they are made to dig holes that are five feet wide and five feet deep every day until they are released. A boy named Stanley is sent to camp green lake after being accused of stealing something belonging to a celebrity. Louis Sachar keeps his audience reading this book by not giving all of the story at once. He gives mysteries that make people want to keep reading to find them out. He also entertains us as the readers with some pretty interesting characters all with different and unique personalities.

Despite being an environmental studies major, I would be lying if I said that the environment and nature has always had a huge role in my life. The only reason I became interested in the “environment” was when I found out about environmental justice and environmental racism. In other words, because of people. Before I made that connection sometime in high school, I, like many others, never viewed “nature” as something that should be, rather something that just was. Appreciating nature was a subjective value that I had no particular interests in. Because of this, although I am now what I consider a fully-committed and passionate environmentalist, Last Child in the Woods by Richard Lou was difficult for me to read because it pointed out how

«If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy.»

Camp Green Lake is a place where many young juveniles get sent to build character by digging holes. Stanley figures out that they aren’t just digging to build character but they’re also looking for hidden treasure. In this Essay it will showing you what might not have happened if Stanley didn’t go looking for Zero. The following points will outline many significant things that have changed Stanley’s and Zero’s life’s.

The play “The Glass Menagerie,” written by Tennessee William in 1945, recounts around a family trying to escape the limitations of time and their difficulties coping with life. The main character Tom is the man of the house watching over his mother and sister since his dad left. He is to stay home and fulfill the duties of working at a warehouse but his dream is to leave and be adventurous. Laura, Tom’s sister viewed as crippled and stuck in the present of her disability and shyness stopping her from doing things in her life. Amanda, Tom’s mother lives in a world that is sensitively bound to the past.

In the story “Through the Tunnel,” nature has been one of the toughest obstacles. It always has its ways of trying to interfere with someone. It is testing how long Jerry can hold his breath under the water while trying to swim through the tunnel. In Doris Lessing’s “Through the Tunnel,” the main character, Jerry, refuses to give up on getting through the tunnel. Instead, he is willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish his goal and make it through the tunnel no matter how many times his nose bleeds. He will not let anything stop him from him training to see how long he can stay under the water to prove he can do what the older boys have done. He wants to fit in with them. The setting in “Through the Tunnel” has an impact on the character, plot and symbolism.