Holes Stanley Character Analysis Essay

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Character Essay Have you ever had to dig a hole everyday for 5 months, or live in a house that smelt like foot odor? Well in the book Holes Stanley Yelnats had to. "When Stanley had to go and dig holes he blamed it on his old, wrinkled no-good-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather." But as Stanley dug he got stronger. In the beginning of the book Stanley was kinda one of the bigger people, because he was a glutton and he was also really short. And in school he would get picked on because of his size. When it came time for stanley to dig his first hole it was hard because the dirt was all dry and crusty. But in the middle of the book, when Stanley was on his 45 hole he had thought it was implausible that he could become more muscular and he did. Stanley is very caring, compassionate because when he wrote to his mom he said that it was nice at camp (really it wasn't). He also said the had gone swimming in the lake everyday (there is no lake). The reason why he said these things is …show more content…
When he bumped into the person that guy went all syco. But good thing his friends where there because they said to the guy that caveman was cool. I was like who's caveman and now i know caveman was Stanley, because he bumped into the meanest guy there. In this book i had some personal connections with Stanley, just to name a few when he wrote to his mom that it was fun at camp i wrote to my mom that it was fun at my cousins house but it really wasn't. Also when one of his friends said the first whole was hard and it wasn't the hardest, my dad told me the first grade was hard and it would only get easier and it didn't. Lastley when Stanley went to find Zero because he was worried about him, i went to try and find one of my friends when i was worried to. This is just a little part of a big adventure that Stanley

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