“There is no Lake at Camp Green Lake. There once was a very large lake here, the largest lake in Texas. That was over a thousand years ago. Now it is just a dry, flat wasteland.” (Sachar 3)
“... if you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy.” (Sachar 5) Stanley, a protagonist in the novel “Holes” by Louis Sacher, changes . Stanley shows a hopeful, yet stressful kind of person.
Stanley shows perseverance from beginning to end in the novel “Holes”. The author demonstrates when it states, “He tried to jam it into the earth, but the blade banged against the ground..” (Shachar 26) This quote shows how Stanley brings out his perseverance by not giving up on his first hole. Stanley also shows