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.
The story and the characters really stood out to me. They really expressed themselves and the setting in the story was very cool to learn about. I enjoyed the pictures in the book because they guide the reader into the setting and the time period in the book. I recommend this book to people who are interested in learning about World War II and people who are interested in biographies and survival stories. One of my favorite quotes from the book was “A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain.”
Reading Log – 2 1. Pages 87-171, read on 1.19.18; characters involved: Imogene Scott, Lindy Scott, Chad Price, Jeremy White, Lillian Eugene, Omar, Mike, Pari Singh. 2. In the books The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos, the theme that is taking the most shape is self-discovery. Throughout these 6 chapters, it has the most evidence and support through the pages.
Have you ever been accused of something you didn't do? The theme for Holes is growing up because Stanly shows responsibility for his friends actions, and is innocent of stealing Clyde Livingstons shoes. The reason i think that this is the theme is because Stanly is still young enough to learn from his mistake. Body:
The book has many characters with very different personalities. The book has unexpected twists and turns throughout it. The novel involves kidnappers, a dragon and (of course) the 5 children from Miami that know nothing about what they’re getting into. This book started out as, a fairly normal story.
In nearly all parts of the world, children are prohibited from any highly technical environment (Delany 219). They are only supposed to go to school and learn how to read and write. Another limiting factor for the above arguments is that the work is disorienting. This is because the story’s context is not clearly defined at the start. This establishes a climate of confusion, since the audience does not have the slightest idea of who a Spacer or ‘frelk’ actually
Also this book was easy to understand and did not take too long to read. At the end of the novel Gene explains that Finny was different because of his lack of fear. I liked this ending because it is interesting to read about a teenager that has no fear. For the text to text, text to self and text to world connections are all kind of similar in this book.
To some people it is not. Some teachers say that the book is challenging for students. Now, this novel may be difficult for students, but that is how students learn new information. If students weren’t to have read harder pieces of literature all throughout their schooling career, they would stay at the same level of reading for most of their life. The reason why students should read more challenging novels are because they learn new things, and they could also learn how to act in a certain situation based on the type of challenging story they read.
“So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, pore less, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and loan. Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from chemistry of the earth.
Samuel Johnson once said, “The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.” Few things are more delicate than hope. It isn't touchable, easily measurable or available in pill form. Holes is a story that teaches a valuable lesson that is true for even a modern teen: Hope in bad situations.
Holes A key part to the book of Holes written by Louis Sachar is a song that plays on throughout the story and ties together loose ends. Each verse has a meaning that is personal to Stanley, the protagonist of the story. “ If only, if only,” the woodpecker 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.”
Chapter 5 Summary- Stanley the main character of the story is now assigned to ten D. His counselor is Mr. Pendanski. He is introduced to his tent mates. They are like tough but sort of nice kids except for Zero he just never says anything. This is what happened in the story so far for chapter 5. Chapter 6 Summary-
Reading response:Extended text: fiction Lord of the flies The book is about a plane crashes causing the only survivors and a group of schoolboys without adult supervision, trapped on a desert island waiting for rescue. Initially, when I read the beginning of the story, the boys have elected Ralph to be the leader and settled some rules to maintain order in the island. At first, I thought this is a children's adventure story where the children had get along and rescued by their teamwork and it ends up happily. In fact, after reading more the middle part of the book, the positive picture of my images had been smashed up, problems getting more and more.
(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..”
With the novel being read from a ‘twelve’ year old whose history motivates his understanding, perception and interpretation of the events he encounters and interprets to the reader,
