Have you been accused if doing something you didn’t do? Or have you ever felt really unlucky? In the book Holes by Louis Sachar, a boy named Stanley Yelnats gets sent to a camp for bad boys for something he didn’t do but yet got accused for doing it. Stanley blames his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather for being stuck at camp. The theme for Holes is perseverance because in the book, Stanley takes risks, overcomes his no-good-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather’s failure and survives in the desert. In the book, Stanley has to take a risk to save Zero or Zero will die, so Stanley took a risk to steal Mr. Sir’s truck to go after Zero. “He lay on the dirt staring at the truck, which stuck lopsided into the ground. He sighed. He couldn’t blame his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather this time. This time it was his own fault, one hundred percent. He had probably just done the stupidest thing he had ever done in his short and miserable life.”(Sachar, pg.148). This quote proves that Stanley takes risks because he had just took a truck …show more content…
To overcome his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather’s failure, Stanley has to break the curse somehow. “The reader might find it interesting, however, that Stanley’s father invented his cure for foot odor the day after the great-great-grandson of Elya Yelnats carried the great-great-grandson of Madame Zeroni up the mountain.”(Sachar, pg.229). This quote proves that Stanley has to overcome his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather’s failure because he broke the curse. He broke the curse by going after Zero, carrying Zero up to God’s Thumb, and singing to him while he drank. 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