I remember like it was yesterday, my cousin and I was riding in the car with my uncle on our way to the movies, extremely excited to see the newest Disney movie, Holes. We had been watching previews and trailers for weeks, and it turned out to be just as good as we had imagined. It ended up being one of my favorite films of all time. I watched it multiple times when it started to come on television. I bought the DVD and then when I was 10 or 11 in the 5th grade I discovered there was a book. I always had problems when it came to reading, and in 5th grade, all the teachers came together and presented to the entire 5th grade class a time during the day called DEAR. DEAR is an acronym that stands for “Drop Everything and Read”. I had problems when it came to reading. Not because it was hard, but because I was lazy.
I was never comfortable reading and now the 5th grade teachers expected me to read during DEAR session. We had to finish the book about a months’ time then have a short quiz on it. I could barely pass the quiz because the entire second half of it would be incorrect because I would not be done with the book. Then one day my teacher, Mr. Johnson stood at the front of the class like he did after every book quiz and said, “ Okay class, our next book will be Holes by Louis Sachar”. I immediately raised my hand and excitedly asked, “Like Holes the movie?” And it was. For the first time, I was ready to read. The story “Holes” was about a young man, Stanley Yelnats whose
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
The first verse of the song in Louis Sachar’s Holes is about wanting things that you do not have, and it represents Stanley Yelnats’ bad luck and how he wishes that he had more in life at the beginning of the story. It helps the reader understand how Stanley behaves and thinks about things in his life. First, Stanley believes that he is always affected by bad luck, which he thinks causes the shoes to drop on his head and make him go to jail for stealing (9 - 10, 25). Stanley thinks that his bad luck causes a lot of bad things to happen in his life, like going to jail and being sent to Camp Green Lake. Secondly, Stanley as a young child always wished that his family could have enough money to send him to camp.
Changes in a trouble ridden society can come from the courage of one person who is willing to take a stand. In most of the books we read this year it stands true that you don't need a group of people to bring about a change. You can bring about change in a society through one person's courage. In the fiction book Holes by louis sachar the main character Stanley is faced with the dilemma of staying at camp and letting Zero die or leaving and putting his own life at risk.
In the book Holes, written by Louis Sachar, there are multiple subplots that are all intertwined. In particular, the Elya and Madame Zeroni subplot is tied very closely with the main plot of the book. Madame Zeroni gives Elya a family lullaby that is actually about his future descendent, Stanley and Madame Zeroni’s future descendent, Zero. The “if only” song in Holes foreshadows Stanley and Zero’s character development.
You will write a 800 word book review from your first book choice. 100 words of less is a summary- answer the questions below for the rest of the report. Use the following as a guide to create a comprehensive report. Use MLA format Holes by Lois Sachar, as the title suggests, has a lot to do with digging holes. The protagonist of the book, Stanley is a 14-year old boy who is wrongly accused of a crime that he did not commit.
Foster states that geography is not just hills, streams, rivers, mountains and plains. It’s so much more than the physical literal “geography”. He says that it helps define a character. Not to mention, it helps give a “feel” for the book. For example: In A Series of Unfortunate Events, setting plays a huge role on the “feel” of the book. Count Olaf’s house is bleak, dreary, and generally not that great of a place to be. The book itself was solemn as well, fitting into this dreary “geography”.
I haven't always been keen on reading as I am today. I can’t really remember the reason for my distaste in literature, but I think it mostly came from me just thinking that reading was too difficult or I was just me being a stubborn six year old not wanting to do it, but none the less I was like this for a lot of my earlier years. I was able to read a small amount of text because my parents teaching me, using Doctor Seuss books like Cat and the Hat and One FIsh Two Fish Red Fish Blue FIsh as learning tools to help me become more fluent. I never really understood reading until my stepmom moved in with us. Since my sister and I were still very young
For some people reading can be a difficult experience. For me it became difficult at the age of five years old. I really wasn’t an educational kid I was more of a kid that like to play with my toys and four brothers, whenever they came home from school. As I grew up reading became a little more difficult for me to master, at times in my middle school my teacher Mr.G would test us on how well and skilled we were at reading. Every day when it was time for him to test me I would get nervous and started to stubble on words and fail my test. By the time I was in high school I learned how to take my time and read, which has help me to progress my reading skills over the years.
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
Holes is a book full of adventure. Holes is about the past and the way it affects the present lives. Holes is a story about Stanley Yelnats IV. He is unlucky in life. He gets accused of stealing a famous baseball player’s shoes that was donated. Stanley is given the option to go to jail or get sent off to Camp Green Lake. Camp Green Lake has no lake. It used to be a lake once but it dried up. In Camp Green Lake you dig holes 5 feet wide and 5 feet deep. Once you are done you have the rest of the day off. This book is an adventure and a mystery. I like how the past ties in with the present. It is a great story full of questions and coincidences. It is suspenseful and interesting. Not one chapter is boring. This book is easy to read and has a
I remember as a kid, how my parents use to take me to the library every month pick out a book. My parents would let me take at least two to three books home with me and they would read to me every other night before bed. When I first started elementary school, my parents learned that I had a learning inefficiency. That was when I was put into to the special program with Ms. Quick. When I started to progress in school my parents were literally forcing me to read a book every other day. As started getting older, I started to not to like reading because it was always little things that I would struggle with but my parents didn’t give up on me. From third to fifth grade, my parents were making me read chapter books; every night before bed my parents made me read a story to them for thirty minutes and afterwards, they would ask me to give an explanation on what I read to them. By the time I started junior high, I was a great reader. From then on, I had no problem with my reading abilities.
In my earliest years, I can recall one of our projects with my 1st grade teacher. It was very memorable for me, because we went all out for it. The project like most of us in that class remember was to write a story. The story was Flat Stanley. I was mostly ahead of my game in my early years. Then, there came my 5th grade year, The teacher i had in that class always got on me, for not paying attention. I almost got held back that year because i couldn’t focus. That year onward, was a struggle for me.
“If you don’t turn in your reading logs on time,” cackled my 2nd grade teacher, who will be addressed as Mrs. N, “You’ll have to turn your sticks, and you will have to stay in from recess and read The Boxcar Children.” This was blasphemy. Was there no safe haven from the evils of reading? This was the third recess of the week destroyed by those vile compositions. My love of reading had been torn to proverbial shreds, until 7th grade, when it was reborn with the help of a creative, inspiring teacher named Mrs. Caudill.
As a young child, my memory of reading starts with a troubling period in my life. It started in first grade after I had moved to a new school. For me he year kicked off normally, but the further down the road, I found myself struggling to keep up in my reading class. In addition to falling behind in my classes, I was feeling isolated from the other students. My grades started to suffer and everything got worse. We didn’t have a school counselor, so my principal arranged a meeting with my parents to discuss what actions should be taken. My principal told my parents it isn’t uncommon for new students to fall behind in classes and that the move could be causing some of the issues. He recommended that I start attending special education for my reading course. My parents thought it over and explained to me that it was ok and not to be discouraged about this. However,
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