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How Does Stanley Show Perseverance In Holes By Louis Sachar

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Holes
Louis Sachar
Isaiah Twomey Have you ever had bad luck? Have you ever wondered why nothing goes the way you want it to go? Why is it happening to me? Well in the book Holes by Louis Sachar, Stanley asks those questions on a daily basis. Stanley was wrongly accused of stealing sneakers, he then has to go to court and is punished by going to a dried up lake digging holes for what he thinks digging for nothing and digging for the reason of “ building character” but what they don't is that they are actually digging to find treasure for the greedy staff of Green Lake. Stanley then finds a friend named Zero (Hector Zeroni). These two friends go through many situations together in this book showing perseverance a lot. Zero and Stanley show perseverance in many different ways but there are three main types of it shown throughout the book. The first would be …show more content…

So Stanley is showing overcoming failure by carrying Zero up the hill (God’s Thumb), which his great great grandfather failed to do. A long time ago Stanley’s grandfather wanted a pig from a woman to impress another woman to find love, but the deal was that Stanley's grandfather had to carry the pig up God’s thumb every day to feed it and let it have a drink, and after the pig got to big the man had to carry the woman he got the pig from up the hill so she could have a drink, and if he failed to do this, himself and all of his family would be cursed with bad luck for the rest of eternity, which he did, he failed to carry the woman up the hill. But Stanley broke this curse because the woman his grandfather got the pig from was a woman from the Zeroni family, and so was Zero, so when zero got sick Stanley carried Zero up the hill and broke the curse. I can prove that overcoming failure is part of this book with this quote, “C,mon Zero wake up, Fine i’ll carry you up the hill.” (Sachar, Chap

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