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Holes Louis Sachar is a well-known American author, who writes children’s books. He has written Holes and the Wayside School Series, but Holes is his biggest hit. Holes is a famous book who takes us on a mysterious journey, “an unexpected journey”. I think the book belongs to the genre, children’s literature: because the story takes us on a surprisingly dangerous adventure, with a buried treasure, and evil, nasty adult characters. Much like in the books by Roald Dahl. Stanley Yelnats exiting journey takes place in Texas around the end of the 1990’s. One day when Stanley walks home from school, he is hit in the head by a pair of shoes falling down from the sky. Not just any pair of shoes, but a famous baseball-players shoe. The police finds out Stanley has taken the shoes, and is sent to court. Where he gets two choices, either to be sent to prison or sent to Camp Green Lake. Stanley does not want to go to court, so he decides to go to Camp. On his way to camp, Stanley is imagining the most beautiful lakes and greens. However, it turns out to be the complete opposite. The camp is in the middle of nowhere, far, far out in the big canyon of Texas. Symbols …show more content…

The onions and the yellow lizards. I think the Onions they symbolize a positive factor. Due to the Onions, the two of them are able to regain health and rest, after another long adventure. After resting, they decide to go back to camp, attempting to break free the oppression of the

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Entry One On page twelve of Holes, Stanley gets to the camp and meets Mr. Sir for the first time. Because the camp was so far away, both the bus driver and guard felt understandably irritated. In fact, the guard stated, “Nine hours here, and now nine hours back… What a day.” Stanley “felt a little sorry for the guard and the bus driver” for putting them through the trouble.

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Once there she tells him he needs to leave because she isn’t allowed to love him. So he travels back to San Angelo where he finds out that his father passed away and his mother moved to an unknown location.

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Eventually, Camp Green Lake got rain and Zero and Stanley go home. That is how Stanley overcomes his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather’s

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At the beginning of the book Stanley was nervous, scared, and overweight. At the end of the book Stanley became a strong, skinny and, he became a hero to the whole Camp Green Lake Facility.

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Those shoes were auctioned for a bid which would sell for over 5 thousand dollars. The shoes so happened to fall on Stanley´s head, while he was walking home from school. He was arrested later that day. Back at court, Stanley made his decision of going to Camp Green Lake, but he didn't know the irony of the name of Camp Green Lake, or that it was actually a camp for bad boys. Stanley was shy and exploited, but his adventures at Camp Green Lake has led him to be bolder and fearless.

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Symbols are often characters, animals, objects, and or actions. In The Grapes of Wrath, a symbol that I first came across when reading was the turtle that was trying to continue its journey in the rough terrain. It was run over by a truck, that threw it on to the other side of the road and it still got up and continued its way. The turtle directly symbolizes the Joad’s. Like the turtle, the Joad’s are thrown off track by the harsh environment, but continue on their journey through the hardship.

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Holes is a story about a boy named Stanley Yelnats whose family is cursed with bad luck because of his great-great-grandfather. Stanley’s bad luck is what gets him placed at a detention center for a crime he did not commit. However, at the detention center he is forced to dig holes every day as punishment. Stanley begins to question why he is forced to dig holes, and soon realizes that the warden must be looking for something. Stanley becomes friends with a boy named Zero and they both try to escape camp, and break they end up breaking the Yelnats curse.

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Have you ever tried to fit in with everybody and have to do crazy things to prove it? Well, during Stanley’s time at Camp Green Lake, he was looked down upon, but with his friendship with Zero affected his choices there. He soon started to fit in with the crazy things he did. Sometimes, Zero made him choose the choice that he did.

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Have you ever felt like you get in trouble even though you didn’t do something. That is what happens to Stanley Yelnats all of the time in Holes by Louis Sachar and he is accused of stealing an athletes shoes and gets sent to a juvenile detention center. The theme of Holes is courage because Stanley has hope that he will survive out in the desert, he is optimistic that he will find Zero. And he shows strength by persevering and finding Zero and surviving.

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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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