Stanley Yelnats Symbols In Holes, By Louis Sachar

When Stanley first got to Camp Green Lake he was timid, apprehensive, and hesitant, but now he’s dauntless, sympathetic, and worthy.

The story contained lots of conflict and changes over time and Stanley is the one who had suffered the most out of all of them.

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

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

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.

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

He thought it would be fun, but he was wrong. The boys there were all dirty and Stanley had to dig a hole every day, waking up early so the blazing hot sun wouldn’t blaze on them the whole time. The dimension of the hole that had to be dug everyday was five feet deep and five feet wide. Stanley developed his physical, emotional and social features significantly. The development of Stanley’s physical characteristics throughout the novel will now be discussed

In the story Stanley shows responsibility by carrying Zero up God’s thumb and authority for his actions. Zero hadn’t had food for days beside the “spoolsh” which was making his stomach crumple. Likewise, if stanley wouldn’t have started teaching Zero to read and write or told the other boys that he was teaching Zero, then the boys wouldn’t have ratted out Stanley. Mr.pendanski then wouldn't have told the warden and Mr.Sir about the lesson Stanley was giving Zero, Zero then wouldn’t have never ran away. ” Stanley took hold of Zero’s forearms and pulled him up right…

They would throw his journal in the toilet, and Stanley had to go fish it out, but now that he was digging all those holes he became slimmer and muscular. On page 29 it states “For once in his life it paid to be overweight.” this shows that he knows he is overweight and doesn’t like it. At camp he was the biggest one there and felt self conscious but at the end he wasn't the biggest one, Armpit was. He didn't have any friend because he was to shy and self conscious.

Stanley is currently sent to Camp Green Lake at the time, and while he’s on the bus, he thinks about his life and how it feels. According to the passage, “Stanley didn’t have any friends at home. He was overweight and the kids at his middle school often teased him about his irregular size.” The reader can tell that Stanley was out of shape at the beginning of the novel, and from this quote, we can tell that Stanley was unappreciated by people. The author states that Stanley used to get bullied at school, and that his teachers even made cruel comments about him without realizing it.

Stanley’s dirty- rotten- pig- stealing- great- grandfather, made his whole family have bad luck. Stanley has bad luck, but is always hopeful. Stanley changes from hopeful and not popular to brave and popular because of how sachar describes him before he goes to camp, his great friendship with Zero and when he returns home.

He has never been to summer camp because his family is poor, so when he is tried for a crime and the judge tells him he can either go to the camp or to jail, he chooses Camp Green Lake. Chapter 3 Stanley rides to Camp Green Lake on a bus with the bus driver and a guard with a gun. He carries a backpack with a toothbrush, toothpaste, and a box of stationery that he plans to use to write to his mother. Stanley pretends that he is going to a camp like the ones rich children go to. Stanley hopes that he will make friends at Camp Green Lake.

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.”

When he first arrived at the camp, the other camp members treated him poorly. Stanley started to feel that he had no one to be there for him or to comfort him. As time went on at the camp, Stanley made one friend named Zero. Zero was not the “smartest crayon in the box” but showed compassion for Stanley. Stanley and Zero came up with a deal that showed love for each other.

He couldn't even go an hour of digging without getting tired. “Well how'd you like your first hole?¨, asked Squid, (Sachar, 45). Digging a hole was a challenge to him, he would groan and whine, but not it's over. He can dig a hole with less difficulties Camp Green Lake changed Stanley in a stronger more braver way.