Holes book summary Holes is a novel from an author called Louis Sachar (1998) His writing has revolutionized the whole idea of irony. You see, this story starts with a boy called Stanley Yelnats. He was accused of stealing a person called Clide Livingson a.k.a. sweet feet’s shoes. The shoe were going to be sold for 5000 us dollars. And so poor Stanley was sent to a place called “Camp Green Lake juvenile correctional facility” this story unfolds even more as the story into a deep. Dark. Hole. In Stanley’s heart. This story is like a huge wad of string waiting to be untie. Two stories bound by blood, fate and destiny are about to clash together in this deep deep hole…. And so the author describe this place as: “a vast wasteland. The air seemed thick with …show more content…
He named it ‘Sploosh.’ Soon Zero got sick. Stanly had nowhere to go, so he carried Zero up the ‘Big thumb’ a mountain nearby. It was a long journey, no water, no food. Stanley fell. Full faced on the…. Mud? “You need water to make mud!” as Stanley joyfully dug a hole. Water started to fill in as he splashed some in his and Zero’s face. “As he continued to widen his hole, his hand came across a smooth, round object. It was too smooth and too round to be a rock.” This was the mountain Sam the onion man would come and pick his onions every day. Stanley sang a song to Zero, a song passed through generations, the song his ‘dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great- grand-father sang to the piglet. “if only, if only the wood pecker sighs, the bark on the tree was just a little bit softer. While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, He cries to the moo-oo-oon, If only, if only” Thus the descendant of Elya Yelnats carried the descendant of Madame Zeroni up a mountain, sang the pig lullaby and gave them a drink from the mountain water the curse was lifted. Rain came pouring down once in a hundred years in Camp Green