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Year 9 Essay Task

NAME: Evie Miller Due: Friday Week 6 Word Length: 600-1000

Your task is to write an essay on one of the topics below. You will need to plan your essay with using the essay planner on Comdata and your teacher will go over this with you. You may submit a draft but this must be submitted at least 1 week before submission of your final assignment.
Remember to use evidence to back up your arguments!
Questions:
1. Discuss how Louis Sachar uses differing time periods to tell the same thematic story.
2. In Holes the paths the characters take are more influenced by fate than chance. Do you agree or disagree?
3. Is Sachar’s use of names in Holes more representative of character’s personalities or of their role in society? Justify …show more content…
Three strong themes Sachar has used to connect the different time periods together were relationships, authority and survival. The relationships during holes are all about friendship, love or authority; they play an important role in connecting the different time periods. Authority plays the role of standards, what is to be expected, all time periods have one or more authoritative figure. Another strong theme is survival, which is all about the relationships leading people throughout the book holes to find sanctuary within others and unexpected …show more content…
The theme of authority was carried out in a different way to in Green Lake and Camp Green Lake as rules were clearly set and the people had rankings in racial and wealthy ways. The person of Authority in Green Lake was the sheriff who works together with the higher-ranking families to set the laws and boundaries. As soon as these laws are broken, the offender is punished with death. However in Camp Green Lake the authoritative order was The Warden followed by Mr Sir then the councillors and then the campers. Authority throughout holes is about who has the most power, wealth and wisdom. Power represents the Warden towering over all others viewing them all as the same, wealth for those of the town Green Lake and their racial systems and wisdom for Madame Zeroni in Latvia, without her non-direct authority over Elya Yelnats the themes would have different time periods to

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