Summary Of Hole By Louis Sachar

The main character's name is Stanley Yelnats. At first, you see stanley as an alright kid who has made a bad decision stealing. “ I stole some sneakers” (pg 22). Throughout the rest of the story you find that stanley is nice and always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. “He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time all thanks to his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather” (Pg 7). At school before camp Green Lake he was bullied and treated bad. “he didn’t have any friends at home, he was overweight” (pg 7). At camp Green Lake Stanley made a new friend, his best friend “Zero”. He get’s along great with Zero and teaches him how to read. “I’ll try

When autumn came around, Scout started thinking of how “... And Boo’s children needed him”(374). Scout started to realize how every gift Jem and her found in the knothole represented an event in their life. One night while Jem and Scout were walking from Scout’s school pageant, Bob Ewell ( a drunk that forced his daughter to accuse Tom Robinson) attacked the kids. A hero, most known as Boo Radley came to the rescue and saved them and took them home and made sure they got there safely. If it was not for Boo, the kids would have been killed that night.

In the novella “Down the Rabbit Hole” by Pablo Juan Villalobos, the story revolves around the concept of innocence. What makes this novella different from other literature that discuss innocence is that the main character Tochtli does not actual move from innocence to experience but rather stays innocent but as the audience reads on they figure out that tochtli has moved further and further away from pure innocence. In the beginning of the novella in the short notes ahead innocence is explained in the context of the novella as being incomprehension. This is a theme that is revealed throughout the entirety of the novella. The novella Down the rabbit hole sets the scene inside a palace of a later understood drug lord, who is the father of tochtli, the main character. Tochtli is only seven and therefor does not have an exact grip on what is happening around him. Juan pablo Villalobos however reveals information in such a way that the truth escapes the innocent mind of tochtli but screams out to the readers.

There are many types of conflict present in Holes, for of which are: Man versus man, Man versus Self, Man versus Society and Man versus Nature. These four examples of conflict help the characters and plot develop their resolutions to help the reader to understand what the book is about and on a different level and a different way. The first conflict the reader see in Holes is Man versus man. This conflict is mainly between Kate Barlow and the sheriff.

In Doris Lessing’s “Through the Tunnel”, Lessing uses imagery in order to show the audience that the transition from childhood to adulthood is a quest in itself. Lessing reveals that Jerry’s quest isn’t just to swim at the bay, but is to become a man by suggesting that swimming through the tunnel represents manhood and to become like the boys at the bay who Jerry idolizes as being men. It is evident that Lessing incorporates explicit overtones into her writing because in the text “It’s All About Sex…” Foster explains, “imagery is just a part of the much older tradition identified by Freud/Westen/Frazer/Jung about lances and swords and guns (and keys) as phallic symbols, chalices and grails (and bowls, of course, also) as symbols of female sexual organs.” (3). Therefore, Foster concludes that other objects can symbolize sexual organs, and that objects that can be filled tend to represent female sexuality. And Lessing incorporates this philosophy into her short story by writing, “All night the boy dreamed of the water-filled cave in the rock, and as soon as breakfast was over, he went to the bay.” (6). Therefore, Lessing uses the imagery of the water-filled cave that going through the tunnel is symbolic for having sexual intercourse because the tunnel represents female sexuality, because it can be filled. Furthermore, Jerry quite literally has a wet dream, further suggesting the explicit nature of the real quest. However, Lessing shows the audience the difficulty of this goal

In all ages, now and then, people care about money more than anything. Stanley, 14 years old little boy has a crime and was taken to Camp Green Lake. He believed that he is unlucky with everything and his fortune doesn’t exist, but at the end of the book, his fortune did exist. The part where Stanley found Kate Barlow’s lipstick from tons of hole digging, could be the turning of the book. I liked this part because Stanley got more interested with the background story of Katherine and Sam, which means that Readers could also know more about them. Kate is my favorite character in this book. She was determined against racism and killed anyone who was against her. However later Stanley escapes the camp with Zero and head towards the top of the

For this month’s reading log I have chosen to read a book called Holes, by Louis Sachar and Adventure Fiction for the Genre. This story takes place in Present day Texas. Stanley Yelants the fourth is the main character and is supposedly cursed by a gypsy because of his great Grandfather. Stanly was sent to Camp Green Lake because of a crime he did not do. Stanly is an Overweight kid and is usually bullied by his classmates. Stanley’s father is an Inventor and was trying to cure foot odor. When Stanly was at the camp he made a good friend who was “zero” or Hector. Hector and Stanly decided to run away from the camp towards a Mountain. When they arrived they decided to drink the water from the mountain and the curse was lifted. Next Stanly and

Holes is a book written by Louis Sachar, it is an adventure book that takes place at the hot and dry camp green lake. Once the largest inland lake in Texas it is a desert wasteland that hasn’t had a drop of rain in one hundred years.

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I remember like it was yesterday, my cousin and I was riding in the car with my uncle on our way to the movies, extremely excited to see the newest Disney movie, Holes. We had been watching previews and trailers for weeks, and it turned out to be just as good as we had imagined. It ended up being one of my favorite films of all time. I watched it multiple times when it started to come on television. I bought the DVD and then when I was 10 or 11 in the 5th grade I discovered there was a book. I always had problems when it came to reading, and in 5th grade, all the teachers came together and presented to the entire 5th grade class a time during the day called DEAR. DEAR is an acronym that stands for “Drop Everything and Read”. I had problems when it came to reading. Not because it was hard, but because I was lazy.

In the beginning of the book Holes Stanley´s a kid with a creative mind but at school he gets taken advantage of. Mrs. Bell Stanley´s math teacher built the class confidence up by making them think Stanley´s a nobody. ¨On the last day of school Mrs. Bell taught ratios… Stanley weighed three times as much as the other

Louis sachar is the author of the book Holes. Camp green lake. In the vary late 1900s. He goes to the past a lot during this tory to talk about his great great great grandfather and how they are cursed because of him. Not really to me. The narrator of Holes seems reliable but often interjects dark humor or irony into the narration. Many statements are made which require the reader to make his or her own inferences about the subject matter. At times the narrator breaks with the omniscient narration to address the reader directly and pose questions about the events in the book. The power of fate to determine events; the benefits of friendship; the destructive nature of cruelty; the importance of history in everyday life.

Virtuosity in heartened companionship would survive against any dispute or struggle and true friendship would represent strength in times of unfortunate mishaps and danger. In the novel “Holes”, written by Louis Sachar, the leading protagonist, particularly Stanley Yelnats, scrutinizes the prominence of sophisticated friendship and demonstrates it through the intrepid confronting of circumstances of inflicting tribulations and life trials. In addition, the meaningful connotation of friendship encompasses the profound companionship of Stanley and Zero, the unauthorized love connection of Sam and Kate Barlow and the hero-like partnership existing between the D-Tent boys. Through the consequential exemplification of the significance of friendship,

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Imagine waking up and not remembering a single thing. You’re digging in the past, but the past doesn’t want to be exposed. Daniel, also known as “Hank”, is a lost boy who woke up in Penn station knowing nothing. Not his name, where he’s from, why he’s where is is. Nothing. All he has is a “walden” book as his guide and the memory of a tragic accident that happened with him and his little sister Rosie. Along the way from running, he runs into these two other teenagers. Nessa and Jack. They work for Magpie who is a drug distributor. Their mission was to bring Henry to him. Once he got taken to Magpie, he ran away from him because he didn’t want to be in that situation. While running from Magpie, he was exploring the streets and came across a cabin in the woods that was named after Thoreau. He met a tourist named Thomas and they became closer, seeing as Thomas took Henry in and helped him do research on his background to find out who he really was and what his real name was. Henry then came across the high school and a girl named Hailey. They hung out for a while and participated in the battle of the bands at school. Henry ran away shortly after that to the summit of Mount Katahdin. At the top of the mountain, stood Thomas and what looks like to be Henry's dad.