Stanley's Holes

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

The most ostentatious of the group, Stanley is a flawed man that is forced into the role of husband and father by the women around him. Stanley enjoys avoiding his real life and problems by socializing with his other equally macho friends playing poker and drinking excessive amounts of alcohol which in turn makes him stereotypically violent towards his wife. Stanley’s actions to Blanche as well are possessive and domineering as he looks through her things and criticizes the gifts she has garnered from the various suitors she had. “After Stanley's rummaging around in the trunk, Blanche exclaims: "It looks like my trunk has exploded" (38). When he violates that space - "Stanley crosses to the trunk, shoves it roughly open, and begins to open compartments" (41) - he betrays Blanche's intimacy. Rapaciously investigating the love letters, "He rips off the ribbon and starts to examine them, Blanche snatches them from him, and they cascade to the floor." Furious, she shouts: "Now that you've touched them, I'll burn them" and then starts scooping "the floor, gathering

So, Stanley taught Zero the basics of the English language. One day, one of the camp members named Zigzag had enough of Zero digging Stanley’s hole. Zigzag gets into a fight with Stanley. Zero then jumps into action strangling Zigzag, nearly killing him. Mr. Pendanski quickly fires a pistol in the air, which gets them to stop. The Warden comes to sort things out. When the Warden finds out Stanley wasn’t digging his hole, she is furious and tells Stanley that he must dig his hole. Zero grabs a shovel and slams it into Mr. Pendanski’s face, causing him to go out cold. Zero runs away into the desert. A few days later, Stanley is worried about Zero. When Mr. Sir was giving the campers a water refill with the water truck, Stanley hijacks the truck and drives it away to search for Zero. Unfortunately, Stanley drives into a hole, causing the whole truck to be stuck. Stanley runs away from Camp Green Lake in search of Zero. Stanley finds Zero and they go to “Big Thumb”. When they arrive, they found the place had water and onions, which means they won’t starve or die of thirst. Zero, who is barely living, finally admits to Stanley that he stole Clyde Livingston’s

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

“I’ll teach you how to write if you want.” pg. 96 This quote shows that Stanley is willing to teach Zero after he digs his hole for him, and feels he should do something for him. “I just reached into the glass and took them.” pg. 184 “I was walking home when the sneakers fell from the sky.” pg. 23 Zero changed Stanley's life because he took the shoes from the homeless shelter and threw them over the overpass it hit Stanley causing the cops to think he stole them. When he went to Camp Green Lake, a lot of parts in his life changed. His family's fortune and the curse that has been with his family for centuries was removed too. This all happened because of Hector Zeroni (Zero). Stanley changes a lot in the novel, but how he is, in the end, is a whole lot different from the

He desperate attempts to reinvent her self in front of Steila and Stanley ends up with her sympathizing with her self and allowing them to pick up on her disturbing past. On Stanley’s behalf they end up rejecting her like she rejected her husband and shortly enough she slips into her own insanity.

Regardless, the journey south continues where they find a house, full of valuables for the cold weather that the boy and father are able to garner. In this short time a group of cannibals arrive to the house they are in, and it is revealed that they are keeping a hoard of humans locked up in a cellar to feast on. Though the father is not as shocked as he would have liked to have been, the boy is absolutely horrified and is the key moment where the boy realizes that the world truly is dead. Both the father and son are able to sneak out of the house undetected, and are forced to wait in a bush near the house to keep from alerting anyone inside of their presence. Once they get back on the road, they stumble upon a patch of land full of apples, and a barn, which has fresh water stored underneath it. The spoils of their journey does the job in refreshing both the father and son, and gets them to their next destination. Arriving at a house that the father has decided they will camp at, he goes to do some exploring. In the exploring he manages to find a bomb shelter, never before plundered for its goods. The father and the boy load their cart full with food and wait a few days to spoil themselves at the bomb shelter. Once back on the road they run into an old man whom does not mean trouble unlike every other character in the road, but instead is seemingly lifeless 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

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.

Stanley is the antagonist in The Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams. Stanley is a man that likes control. His can be described a poor; middle class man. This man physically and emotionally abuses people. From the beginning, he treats Blanche, his sister-in-law, as the enemy.

“We always took what we needed, Zero said. When I was little, I didn’t even know it was stealing. I don’t remember when I found out.” Zero had a bad life but after knowing how bad it really was. Plus Stanley always thought he has it worse but after just talking to zero Stanley probably realized how things can be even without his no-good dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-grandfathers curse.

Stanley jumped up and grabbed his frail bag he shoved the file into it, crushing the other contents. He had to brake his dad out. He had spent 4 soliant years, trying to discover the location his father. Everything was here EVERYTHING .

The Logan children are walking to school and the white school bus driver purposely tries to splash them . Little man is especially upset because he likes to be clean . One rainy day the children are walking to school and they think they hear the bus behind them so they climb onto the bank but it turns out it was just Harlan Granger driving his car . Stacey suggests that they should just stay there until the bus passes them so they wont get splashed , but TJ convinces them to keep walking. Once they start walking the bus comes barely hitting the Logan children and TJ who try to jump in the bank . But they all miss and end up in the muddy gully . At lunch the logan children make a huge ditch in the road to get the bus back for getting there

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.”