“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.” (Sachar 5). It proves that Stanley is poor because he was not as fortunate as the other kids. Sachar explains how Stanley is overweight, “Stanley weighed three times as much as the other kid.” (Sachar 7). It proves that Stanley is