How Does Stanley Yelnats Change And Change In The Novel

Stanley changed a lot in the book, but how he was treated in the beginning is a big difference from the end “ Stanley weighed three times as much as the other kid.” this helps us indicate that he is fatter than the average kid. He’s also giving us an idea of what he looks like. “ his arms were too weak to carry himself out.“ this text evidence shows Stanley's physical appearance. many things change

The conflict is resolved then Stanley gets out of this hole and spit in it but if he were not to get out of his hole he would have to have someone else help him or been stuck in there until someone came to see if you was okay. The reader is able to see that That is a very tough job to be doing and it is very

Stanleys almost instinctive primitiveness is a major part of his representation in the book and this behavior of his leads to all the ways he overpowers and

The novel begins with Stanley being wrongly accused of stealing a pair of sneakers owned by a famous baseball player. Due to his adversity, Stanley is sent to a juvenile detention facility ironically named Camp Green Lake. This camp resides in the middle of a desert, and is composed of disobedient kid who are forced to dig holes to“build character”. Stanley possess several Christlike traits, such as: his wounded and blistered hands from digging so many holes, the agony he possessed from dehydration and all of the physical labor he was subjected to, Stanley’s optimistic and self sacrificing character who risked death to save his friend Zero, Stanley’s patient and cordialness with other kids, (this trait is especially displayed when he is teaching his friend Zero to read) Stanley’s kindheartedly when he shared his sparing amounts of food and water with Zero, Stanley use of humble transportation due to his family's reduced budget, Stanley was last seen with the thieving kids of the camp and the thieving camp administrators, and finally,when Stanley returned to the camp, full of kids who committed several crimes and freed them from their grueling jobs of digging holes. In conclusion, characters, such as Stanley Yelnats IV are paralleled to Jesus Christ to exemplify their suffering, hopefulness, and other divine character

Have you ever been blamed for something you didn’t do? That’s exactly the situation Stanley Yelnats found himself in, in Louis Sachar’s Holes. In Holes, Stanley is sent to Camp Green Lake, a correctional facility for troubled youth. Camp Green Lake is in the middle of nowhere, dry, and desolated. Throughout the book, Stanley is faced with many challenges, that he must overcome to survive, and escape Camp Green Lake. Holes has a strong theme of courage, it shows Stanley surviving, escaping, and overcoming the camp’s conditions, and his family’s curse.

When he has his parties, he does not consider anyone else feelings. When Blanche and Stella tried to listen to music on the radio, he demanded they turn it off, when they did not he throw it out the window. He walks around as if he is great but really, he is not. Stanley did not have a lot of money. His family lives in a house that is not very attractive.

In the movie it never shows Stanley being picked on or getting pushed around and bullied like it tells us in the book. One thing in the book and movie that are the same is that

Stanley in the beginning of the novel was poor, overweight, and bullied. He was also shy and unlucky. When stanley was poor, it was because he was from a poor family so he had never been to camp before (pg.5, Sachar). He also was living in a tiny apartment (pg.9, Sachar). This quote shows that he had never been to camp before because he was poor. Also, living in a tiny apartment ment that he was poor so he couldn't afford a house. Stanley was also bullied and overweight because the kids at middle school would often tease him about his size (pg.7, Sachar). Furthermore,

Stanley’s actions are intense and mostly uncalled for, Stanley is heavily motivated by the past and

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 always shy and never tried to make friends before Camp Green Lake. He always tried to blame stuff on someone else. “Stanley wouldn't take up for himself when people bullied him.”(Sacher ,7) Derrick Dune and his teacher bullied him by making fun of his weight, and Stanley never said anything to his parents, or the principal. “Stanley never had any friends.” (Sacher pg. 7) If Stanley ha never gone to Camp Green Lake, he wouldn't have any friends, and he wouldn't have become self confident. “It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.” (Sacher pg.7) Stanley always blamed on his great, great, grandfather, because he didn't want to admit his actions. After Stanley met Zero everything changed.

To start off, the area around Stanley is physically in is not good for him. After a long day of digging holes, Stanley is still not given the proper nourishment. Surrounded in an area infested with yellow-spotted lizards, he is constantly in danger since lizards live in holes and snack on the sunflower seed shells that people leave behind.

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 Yelnats IV family has been cursed by a fortune teller when someone in their family could not keep a promise, causing the family to be unlucky. Stanley is falsely accused of a crime. Instead of jail time, Stanley decides to go to Camp Green Lake. The lake is dried up and is run by the warden and her assistant as well as a camp counselor. These three are cruel and unfair to the prisoners. As prisoners, they are forced to spend all day every day digging holes. The three in charge of the camp award the prisoners with a day off from digging whenever they find something interesting.

A year later, his father remarried a woman from “hell” and she was one of the reasons why Stanley became destructive. She was selfish and only cared for her and her seven children. She physically and emotionally abused Stanley by severely beating him many times and blaming him for senseless things. She also neglected him and his two other siblings while she gave her children the best of everything with Stanley’s father money. For example, his stepmother would save food and feed her own children and let Stanley and his siblings