Quotes From Holes By Louis Sachar

In the novel Holes, Louis Sachar establishes Stanley’s improvement from the beginning of the novel to the end, including the changes in his confidence and character. Being bullied is tough and even though Derrick Dunne is bullying Stanley at the beginning, Stanley finds himself happier at camp green lake with his fellow campers. Renamed Caveman, he finally feels as though he finally fits in somewhere because they acknowledge him as one of them by giving him a nickname like the ones the others have. Eventually the peace between all the campers come to an end, and Zero takes off, leaving his canteen behind leaving Stanley to contemplate where his loyalties stand. So in the end, Stanley makes a brave, but possibly stupid choice, of stealing the

When Zero dug Stanley’s hole, something changed he’d been sincere to others in his tent, even though they were being blunt to him. When he started teaching Zero.

Nature has a powerful way of portraying good vs. bad, which parallels to the same concept intertwined with human nature. In the story “Greasy Lake” by T. Coraghessan Boyle, the author portrays this through the use of a lake by demonstrating its significance and relationship to the characters. At one time, the Greasy Lake was something of beauty and cleanliness, but then came to be the exact opposite. Through his writing, Boyle demonstrates how the setting can be a direct reflection of the characters and the experiences they encounter.

In his short story “Greasy Lake,” T. Coraghessan Boyle employs the setting to reflect the state of morality and corruption of a society’s youth, create an appropriate atmosphere, and better develop the characters of the story. Boyle is able to achieve this by centering the story at the Greasy Lake and utilizing the Lake as both a setting and character.

At camp, the other boys in both the book and movie version of the story give Stanley a hard time. This is an evident similarity between the book and movie. The people that are in charge of the boys in the detention camp are not the nicest of people and they are very strict with the boys. They also make the boys dig a big hole everyday they are at the detention camp in both versions of the story. Another way the boys are treated the same in both the book and movie is in the end when the camp boss wants to leave Zero and Stanley out in the desert and not report they are missing. In both versions the boys run away and the boss does not want to do the right thing and report they are gone.

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

In his short story “Greasy Lake,” the lake with the community teenagers create a stereotypical scene of current youth pop culture. Many youth who read this story can find the ironic references and similarities with their lifestyle in today’s world. T. Coraghessan Boyle uses the setting of the story to expose a world lacking self-discipline and showing immorality amongst a community youth, which can sometimes be rather common today. This also aids in creating an atmosphere that surrounds suspense and impaired judgement to better develop the characters of the story. Boyle is able to achieve this by creating a setting with the story of the Greasy Lake and describing the Lake as both a setting and main character.

A. In this passage, Miss Sadie is talking to Abilene about how even though something is dry or dead, it can still thrive. When they are discussing this, they are at Miss Sadie's Divining Parlor. They are speaking because Miss Sadie didn't agree with Abilene's opinion that everything is dry.

In the novel ‘Holes’, Stanley Yelnats has changed physically and mentally during the entire time he was in Camp Green Lake. Stanley was sent to Camp Green Lake due to committing a crime. Their punishment in Camp Green Lake is to dig holes every day in the middle of nowhere were the sun is scorching hot. Stanley used to be overweight, he did not have any friends because he was bullied for his weight

The fictional novel, In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien, conveys the presence human frailty and human nature. The main character, John Wade is troubled and devastated when his beloved wife, Kathy Wade goes missing during their stay at a cottage near a grand lake that is located in the woods. The author proposes evidence and hypothesis to leave the reader guessing about the fate of Kathy. Prior to that, John’s political career ends after information about his dark past comes to light, leaving Kathy and John both emotionally depressed. However, they keep their emotions a secret and feign happiness. The author states evidence to express the mental and physical challenges along with the difficulties John had to face which impacts him and

In the Lake of the Woods is about ghosts, personal and national, and about the impossibility of escaping them. Author Tim O’Brien poured much of his own likeness into protagonist John Wade. Wade grew up in Minnesota and like O’Brien, he served in Vietnam so he could maintain or get more love from his peers and family. Like O’Brien, he likely committed some wartime sins and like O’Brien, he cannot escape the past. However we see a key difference between the two mean as O’Brien confronts his personal demons through writing and admitting publicly his faults, while Wade prefers to suppress the past and at making all disagreeable memories disappear.

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

In this story a kid is accused of stealing and he is trying to clear his name. In this book, Holes by Louis Sacher, Stanley is trying to prove he is innocent of stealing a pair of shoes. I believe the theme of Holes is perseverance, because of in the story Stanley rebels against the counselors and, has to survive the desolate wasteland of Camp Green Lake which then leads to Stanley overcoming his fears.

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.”

As most of the people in American spent time thinking about clothing and feeding themselves and their families, the rarely spend time thinking about philosophical issues. Tim O’Brien says that he jars people to look into important things, meaning that he makes people look into the deeper meaning of the issues reflected in his novels instead of focusing on the basic issues alone. This paper will analyze the important aspects that are reflected in the Novel In the Lake of the Woods and the article The Vietnam in Me by Tim O’Brien.