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Holes, written by Louis Sachar, takes you on a journey of a boy named Stanley Yelnats and his adventures in Camp Green Lake. Stanley Yelnats is a fourteen year old boy that has no friends and is constantly bullied for being overweight. Stanley's great-great-grandfather (Eyla Yelnats) was cursed by a gypsy named Madame Zeroni, and the curse has been passed down and has brought bad luck to the family. Stanley is arrested for theft and is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility in Texas. Stanley's stay at Camp Green Lake brings him endurance, perseverance and friends. Eyla used to live in Lativa before he was cursed. In summary, Eyla Yelnats wanted to marry a woman named Myra Menke. Unfortunately another man named Igor Barkov,
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“He’d just been in the wrong place in the wrong time” (Sachar 7). Even though Stanley has been in the wrong place at the wrong time, he could still change or learn a lesson from it. In the novel Holes, by Louis Sachar, Stanley changes from a poor and overweight kid to a rich and a healthy kid because of how Sachar describes him in the beginning, the middle, and the end. At the beginning of the novel Stanley is a poor and an overweight kid. Sachar explain that Stanley was poor, “ Stanley was from a poor family.”

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In this essay, I will be telling you the theme of Holes by Louis Sachar. In my opinion, the theme is perserverence. In the book, the D-tent boys have to survive, escape, and take risks at Camp Greenlake. As Hector “Zero” Zeroni once said, “When you spend your life living in a hole, the only way you can go is up” (Sachar, pg 160). My first reason is that they have to survive at Camp Greenlake.

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HOLES FILM ANALYSIS The movie “Holes” was directed by Andrew Davis and was released in 2003. It was originally a book A scene from the movie is where Stanley Yelants the llll is digging his hole and Theodore throws his dirt he dug up into Stanleys and they then have a flashback of Elya Yelnats, explaining why and how their family has a curse. The scene had started off depicting Elya, digging out the mud of a barn.

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Holes by Louis Sachar is a Newbery medal winning adventure book about a young boy who gets sent to camp in lieu of going to juvenile jail for a crime he did not commit. He goes on an adventurous journey that brings about positive changes in his life. This book has complicated, well-developed characters and is filled with vivid, exciting adventure. It has a strong emotional effect on the reader. Holes also addresses relatively serious themes in an artfully appropriate way.

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