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    Media Text Analysis

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    drug. Next, the iconic signs of a bicycle helmet, bullet holes and wine shown. Following on from this is a television set with an abstract green visual. This visual could be signified as similar to a computer screensaver. A metallic toy robot is indicated which creates sparks. Furthermore, the iconic signs of a pin board with photos of people attached to it are presented. The linguistic sign of an actor’s name then disappears through a hole in the wall. There is a signifier of blue shapes strung

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    Holes

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    Introduction “Holes” is a book written by Louis Sachar, and was published in _ _ _ _. This book is a great adventure. The book Holes won the Newberry award in _ _ _ _. Main Character The main character is a boy named Stanley Yelnats. He is about 10 years old. Stanley is a hard-working, clever, and very pleasant person. He was blamed for stealing a famous person’s shoes, when they really had just fallen on his head while he was walking! Stanley had a great, great, great grandfather that had

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    Holes Book Summary

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    The book I read was Holes the main protagonist is stanley yelnats. The main antagonist is the camp green lake staff. The story starts when Stanley gets wrong fully blamed for stealing a pair of shoes. When Stanley goes to court his family cannot afford a good lawyer because his family is poor. Stanley’s father Stanley yelnats the 3rd is an inventor. Stanley’s family is caused because Stanley’s great-great-grandfather was cursed by a gypsy. Stanley's great-great-grandfather who was supposed to carry

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    Holes Sachar

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    Holes by Louis Sachar. This is a story about a boy named Stanley Yelnats who is found guilty of stealing a pair of shoes and sent to Camp Green Lake, a detention camp for boys in Texas. Stanley’s family has had a string of bad luck since his great-great grandfather became cursed for not fulfilling his promise to carry an old woman named Madam Zeroni up a mountain before coming to America. The area of the camp used to be a thriving community, but after the rise of an outlaw named Kissin’ Kate Barlow

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    Holes Essay Have you ever been accused of something you didn’t do? Have you ever been sent to a juvenile camp for boys? In the book Holes by Louis Sachar, Stanley Yelnats gets sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile camp for boys, because he was accused of stealing a pair of cleats. The theme of Holes is growing up, because in the story Stanley is proven innocent, takes responsibility for his decisions, and starts learning from his failure. In the story, Stanley is accused of stealing Clyde Livingston's

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    Camp Green Lake Essay

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    “Camp Green Lake is a camp for bad boys”(Sachar 5) Holes by Louis Sachar shows how the main character Stanley changes through the story.Stanley changes from being shy,to being confident because of how sachar describes him in how Stanley behaved in school,how Stanley behaved at Camp Green Lake and,how Stanley did after camp. At the beginning of the story,the author makes the reader believe that Stanley will be a bad boy throughout the story.Stanley will be sent to,”Camp Green lake is a camp for

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    Why Is Stanley A Bad Boy

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    “If you take a bad boy and make him dig holes every day, in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy” (Sachar 3) But Stanley wasn’t a bad boy. He was wrongly accused. Stanley changes from unlucky to lucky because of how Sachar describes him in the beginning, middle and end. At the beginning of the novel Stanley is poor, has bad self esteem, and is overweight. Sachar shows this in the novel with “He was overweight and the kids at his school teased him about his size” (Sachar 7). This statement

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    Holes-How did Stanley's character change and develop as the story progresses? This is a story about a boy by the name of Stanley Yelnats who is sent to a juvenile detention centre called Camp Green Lake due to a slight miscarriage of justice. In the detention centre Stanley is forced to dig holes to build character and later he learns more about his family history and discovers the truth about 'curse' of bad fortune. The real message behind this story is that good is always victorious over evil.

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    Have you ever been bullied in school? That's what happened to Stanley In Holes, Stanley is overweight, so he has a hard time at school, but when he gets arrested for a crime he didn't do he finally finds out what real friendship is. Stanley changes from having no friends to having a best friend because of how Sachar describes him in school by being bullied, at home by not having lots of money, and at Camp Green Lake where he learns how to have friends. In the beginning of the novel, Stanley is not

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    Stanley Yelnats Holes

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    important character in ’Holes’ the novel is Stanley Yelnats. Stanley Yelnats is an important character because he highlights main themes such as climbing the same mountain which Stanley Yelnats the first, climbed (god’s thumb). He also broke his family’s curse as he fulfilled Elya Yelnats duty of carrying Madame Zeroni up god’s thumb and singing a specific song to her, instead, Stanley carried Hector Zeroni; Madame Zeroni’s great, great, grandson and sung to him. In ‘Holes‘ a boy named Stanley Yelnats

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