The Change in Stanley “Stanley was from a poor family. He had never been to camp before.” (Sachar 5) Stanley doesn’t know what he will do at Camp Green Lake, and he doesn’t know he will change. Stanley goes from weak to confident because of how Sachar describes him digging his first hole, making a friend, and finding the suitcase. In the beginning of the novel, Holes by Louis Sachar, the main character Stanley Yelnats weakly steps foot onto the campground. On the first day, “The vibrations ran up the shaft of the shovel and into Stanley’s wrists, making his bones rattle.” (Sachar 26) Stanley tries to dig inside the Earth’s crust but doesn’t have much strength. As he starts to dig, “The force stung his hands but made no impression on