Comparing Ayn Rand's Holes, Questions And Answers

The novel ‘Holes’ is about a boy named Stanley Yelnats, who has a “curse”, which was placed on his great-great grandfather, which gives him bad luck. He then got sent to a detention camp named Camp Green Lake, for a crime he didn’t commit. Stanley and these other boys at the camp that have committed crimes, are told to dig deep and large holes every day. As the story goes on, the author intertwines the past with the present, which gives a definition on why the boys at the camp have to dig holes every day.
The curse started when Stanley’s great-great grandfather, Elya Yelnats was young, he received a pig a fortune teller/gypsy, Madame Zeroni, in exchange for a promise. The promise given to Elya from Madame Zeroni was, that after the pig grew fat and strong, he would carry Madame Zeroni, since she only had one leg, up a mountain and sing her a song that she had told him, while she drinks water. He went to Madame Zeroni for advice, for a girl he loved. He then gotten disappointed from the girl he thought he loved, then moved away to America. Though, he forgot …show more content…
Stanley becomes better friends with a boy named Zero. Although Stanley and Zero or Hector Zeroni, do not know that Hector is, the great- great-great-grandson of Madame Zeroni. Zero finally runs away from camp, and Stanley follows after a few days. Stanley and Zero help each other to reach the top of a big mountain, with a rock-shaped thumb. Once they have reached almost at the top of the mountain, Zero becomes weak, so Stanley carries him up on his back, to the top of the mountain. Stanley finds water, and helped Zero to it, and sang the song that Madame Zeroni taught his great-great grandfather, in a relief. They find grown fresh onions, which turns out to be Sam’s onions. Zero and Stanley survive on the onions for more than a week, and then return to the camp, secretly, planning to search for Kate Barlow's treasure in the hole, where Stanley found the