Holes Stanley Changes

Change is like gossip, it gets involved in everyone's lives. How has change impacted your life? In the novel Holes, Stanley goes through a big change due to many events. These events include Stanley making more friends becoming stronger, and gaining confidence. Through the influences of Zeros friendship and camp green lake, Stanley changes from shy and unloyal to bold and loyal. The novel started with Stanley being shy and unloyal with no friends. Stanley felt sad and alone “He didn't have any friends at home. He was overweight and the kids often teased him about his size” (Sachar 7) This text proves that he was too shy to make friends. “You don’t have to teach me to write” i]=-[
‘6t’Zero said “just to read I don't have anybody to write to” “Sorry” Stanley said again (Sachar 82). I think that this proves that he is very unloyal to Zero. “Before that he’d been unhappy at school, where he had no friends” The quote shows that he is very shy and not able to make friends. Overall In the beginning of the novel you can easily interpret that he is overall a very weak and shy boy.
Their friendship helps Stanley gain more loyalty, bravery, and motivation. Stanley is starting to change, “As long as Zero could keep going he could keep going to”(Sachar 167.) This shows that he is …show more content…
Stanley is almost done changing “he headed in the direction he thought was big thumb”(Sachar 166). By Stanley saying that, it shows that he was brave and loyal enough to Zero so he leave Camp Green Lake. “Stanley stopped to look at Zero now he couldn't just leave him here”(Sachar 219). This text shows that he is being loyal to Zero by not leaving him there. “Zero gave him the thumbs-up sign” “I can't just leave Hector”(Sachar 219). Stanley is being really loyal to Zero by not leaving him even though he could have left and he wanted to, but he didn’t. The end of the book I discovered many new strengths and differences in