Stanley Yelnats Holes

They go back to Philadelphia it appears to be ghost town. No one is anywhere to be seen when. They arrive at the coffee house they see that they’ve been robbed and mother and Eliza where gone. The next day Mattie and grandfather eat breakfast. Then mattie goes to market and finds it empty when she find herself being assaulted by a older woman she rushes home and doesn’t tell grandfather. She goes to sleep and wakes to two men breaking in one man starts messing with Grandfather sword and almost hits Mattie she screams and tries to run but one man catches her. He tries getting information out of her. but grandfather finds them he tries to shoot him but gets away he then starts punching Grandfather he closes his eyes them Mattie stabs the man in the shoulder he screamed in pain and finally ran

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

Stanley had finally broke the curse from his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather! And after all that time Stanley spent with Zero, he gained character- and a new

They Pack up their things into backpacks and hop onto a freight train to chicago. When in chicago the boys meet a trucker named Sharon who drives them all the way to wyoming. Than they hid in the bottom luggage department of a bus on their way to the Tetons. When They reach the Tetons they make a little camp by a small secluded lake. An scary thing that happens is a Black Bear attacks their camp for the berries they picked. Then they get caught by a Forest Ranger and run into the woods. Where they meet Skeet. Skeet got his arm stuck under a boulder and the boys freed him. In return he showed them how to survive in the wilderness. He took them to the ranger station because he heard their mom was there looking for them. At the ranger station Bull is waiting for the boys so they don’t say anything and he doesn’t go to jail. The boys beat up Bull and escape to the cliff where their father lives. Bull and their father get in a fight and Abe (their father) wins. And it ends with them Going to sleep that night with their father that they

By following the map’s directions, they come upon a run-down restaurant owned by the treacherous Fratelli family. They make their way down to the basement after the Fratelli’s leave, and discover a counterfeit machine, a murder victim, and a passageway to "One-eyed" Willy’s underground tunnels. By this time, two of Brandon’s friends (Stephanie and Andy) show up and join the group on their adventure. Chunk is somehow left behind in the restaurant and is sent to find help while the others travel through the tunnels searching for the treasure.

In the opening scene is shows three boys playing street hockey, Jimmy, Sean, and Dave, when two men pull up in a car posing as police officers and abduct one of the boys (Dave) he is held captive and is tortured until he escapes. The movie then shows these three individuals in present day with their families. Jimmy owns small store which he runs with his daughter Katie, Sean who is a Homicide Detective for Boston and Dave who married and has a young boy.

Though some might say that the book does not explain enough, and it gets confusing. I firmly disagree. It may seem weird to have such an odd camp for punishment, but the storyline does eventually explain it. As I said before, Stanley eventually finds out there is more to the camp than everyone thinks. Many times, it's because of the explanation that makes the story interesting! I assure you that everything fits in like a puzzle piece, and that's what so great about the book! Overall, this argument is pointless. Continuing, the story includes many different mini-stories that fits together. To illustrate my point, Stanley Yelnat's great-great-grandfather apparently put a curse on the generations of Yelnats. The grandfather did not do an important task that he was suppose to do, and a curse settled upon the generations. He "worked hard, but bad luck seemed to follow him everywhere." This happening to the grandfather first, causes Stanley to have unfortunate timing. This shows how everything together. All in all, this is another reason why you should read Holes.

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

Chapter 9 focuses on Stanley's adjustment to life at Camp Green Lake, which isn't very pleasant. The boys have no recreation, since the "rec. hall," is really the "wreck room," where every piece of old equipment is broken. When Stanley comes into the room after digging his first hole, he trips over a kid he calls "The Lump." When "The Lump" moves threateningly toward Stanley,

The author has written the book Holes in third person omniscient. “Stanley yelnats was the only one on the bus” (pg 6). The author’s feelings direct more for the kids at the camp then for the warden and mr.sir. The way the author is telling the feeling’s of stanley states that he is for stanley and the other kids.

They are tearing down their house trying to find treasure. He finds out that his parents aren’t there anymore. It says, “This house is too big for just two people. They don’t live here anymore.” This news is devastating!

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.”

Zero is the best digger at the camp. The warden at the camp tells Stanley he has to dig his own hole and he can’t teach Zero how to read. Zero gets upset and runs away in the wilderness and the warden orders all of Zero’s records to be destroyed. Stanley goes and finds Zero he is in a hole feeling sick from eating sploosh and Stanley is forced to carry him up to a mountain. At the mountain they find water and onion plants.

Stanley was overweight in the beginning of the story. In this book Louis Sachar says “Stanley dug his shovel into the ground”(116). Stanley shows his anger as he digs his shovel in the ground in this text evidence. When Louis Sachar says “Stanley was from a poor family(5).

The boys are determined to find it . As an end of the year celebration, Tom's whole class goes on a picnic and on a cave exploration near the wood outside of town. While in the caves Tom and Becky get lost. The whole town searches for them but they are not found. also in the caves Tom sees Injun Joe snooping around.