Holes Essay

The relationship and interactions behind two curses Introduction The two curses are a theme of the novel Holes written by the author Louis Sachar. The novel is centred on two main curses covering over two hundred years. The focus of this report will be the family “curse” of the Yelnats family and Walker family. The family this novel is based around, and how the curse affected several generations of these two families. Walker family One hundred and ten years before Stanley arrives at Camp Green…

A Mistreated Theme: Bullying (Effects of Bullying) I had yet again scraped my left knee cap against the robust concrete that formed the base of my school’s so called ‘child friendly’ playground. So much for a clean sheet this week. The school bullies weren’t helping, they just made my injuries worse. They would always torture me while I was sitting alone at lunch time having the happiest time of my life, as happy as a healthy growing tree and then a fire would be carried by the wind and…

Holes in Allegory (I am) Introducing a great book. Perhaps many may have read it before. A book called Holes. A excellent story about friendship, but did you learn something from it? Although Holes initially appears to be a mere children’s book, after close observation, it is rather an allegory for life because it discusses how life is often miserable and unlucky and how hope and friendship is able to overcome that. The first reason that Holes is an allegory for life is it discusses how life can…

Holes is a book about a boy named Stanley Yelnats. His great- great- great- great-grandfather stole and he was cursed and his descendants. So Stanley and his family were cursed. Now Stanley is a normal boy that goes to school, but when Clyde Livingston’s shoes fall from overhead. Stanley picks them up and takes them home so his dad could see if he could recycle them. It’s something his dad has been working to earn money, and get a better house. Later that day police have arrested him, and the…

SCIENCE As early as 9000 years ago, man’s first trip to the dentist resulted when a minimum of nine individuals survived the procedure of drilling holes into their molars in a Neolithic Indus Valley village in today’s Pakistan. Findings push the dawn of dentistry by 4000 years when a drilled molar was noticed in a Neolithic graveyard found in Denmark, to several years earlier. In fact, recent evidence hints the innovation of dentistry with drilled molars found in the teeth of 300 individuals…

In the short film, Black Hole the protagonist creates technology in the form of a black hole, and uses it to help satisfy his curiosity and then greed. Ultimately, he is consumed by his own creation, greed, and becomes a victim of undesirable revenge effects. Simply by the setting of the short film the viewers can conclude that the actor may be at the office by himself around three in the morning, based on the clock in the background of the film. These details are noticeable because it was a…

There are many types of conflicts present in Holes, four of which are: 1. Man vs Man, 2. Man vs Self, 3. Man vs Nature, 4. Man vs Society. These four examples of conflict help the characters and plot develop. Their resolutions help the reader to understand the book more better, and to imagine what it looks like. The first conflict the reader sees in Holes is Man vs Man. This conflict is mainly between character vs character. For example, when Stanley says no to Zigzag and then Zigzag pushed…

Nuclear Fusion and the Remains of a Dead Star Throughout the history of Earth, multicellular organisms rely on one thing, the sun. And throughout the observable universe, there are million of stars out there just like our sun. These stars could be different however, with either more mass, volume, heat, etc. In our high school career, we learn a lot about astronomy, such as the order of the planets in our solar system. We also learn about gravity, rotation of planets, and how long it takes…

Everyone is created equal, in all shapes and sizes. When one looks at a different person that is not "normal", what does one think? Does one feel sorry for them or does one laugh? There are many ways people can react to a person with autism. Is there really any difference between someone that is deaf or someone that has a mental illness from a "normal" person? Can autistic people think like "regular" people? Although people with autism are not always treated as "regular" people, they should have…

One concept that has interested is dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter is the thing that makes it possible for galaxies to exist. When astrophysicists and cosmologist calculated why the universe is structure the way it is, it became clear that there’s just not enough normal matter. The gravity of the visible matter is not strong enough to from galaxies and complex structures. The starts would more likely be scattered all over the place and not form galaxies. Therefore, cosmologist concluded…