Holes Essay

Stanley if he could teach him how to read but Stanley said “No, I’m already digging holes.”( Sachar 82) Stanley doesn’t want to teach Zero how to read and write.Stanley Ignored Zero but Zero was trying to help. “Zero was trying to get Stanley’s attention but Stanley kind of Ignored him.”(Sachar 47) Zero dug Stanley’s hole while Stanley visited the Warden. Stanley and Zero made a deal because Zero dug Stanley’s hole, now Stanley is going to teach him how to read and write.…

is a very successful American author that has written multiple award-winning books. He was born in East Meadow, New York on March 20, 1954 and is now 64 years old. He writes children books as well as young adult books, one of his most popular being Holes, which has won the U.S. National Book Award as well as the Newbery Medal. Now located in Austin, Texas with his wife Carla and daughter named Sherre, Sachar continues to write as well as play cards. Sachar understands how to write for children…

assigned a bed and given two pairs of clothes and a shovel. Stanley and the other boys who stayed there had to dig one hole each day which was supposed to "build character". He later found out that the Warden was making them dig holes in order to find a treasure. One day Stanley agreed to teach his new friend Zero how to read and write and in exchange Zero would dig Stanley's hole for one hour everyday. The other boys got jealous of watching Stanley do nothing, and a fight broke out between the…

In this book I feel like I'm in the book and actually can see what they are doing in my mind. In this book Stanley gets blamed for stealing some shoes and goes to Camp Green Lake. He gets his fair share of adventure from the camp, only it comes in totally unexpected ways. Stanley's family was cursed by a gypsy because of his great great great Pig-stealing-Grandpa. His dad tries to make a formula to get rid of the smell of old worn out sneakers. Unfortunately he's unsuccessful. Their…

luck. Four generations of bad luck, being in the wrong place at the wrong time. He has a choice, jail, or sent to Camp Green Lake for 18 months. He decides Camp Green Lake instead of jail. Camp Green Lake changed his life, digging holes everyday for 18 months. One certain hole changed his family’s curse and life. Stanley meet many friends at Camp Green Lake, Zero, Magnet, Armpit, Zigzag, Squid, and X-ray. They all had nicknames that specifies them on what they came there for or what they have…

go to Camp Green lake, here is your last reasonable reason. You have to wake up at 4:30 in the morning each day to get ready and dig your holes. And usually when you finish your hole, the day is almost over. So you finish your hole at 8:30. You eat dinner and finish in 1 hour. And by the time it’s 9:30. And there is no bedtime. So whenever you finish your hole, you eat dinner and go to bed late. Guess what you get up at 4:30 in the morning again and you only get 8 hours of sleep. You would be…

Who is one that can break a curse? Stanley. From beginning to the end, the curse changes from valid to invalid. But that’s not all that changed. From unlucky to fortunate, desperate to accepting, and careless to considerate, Stanley changes internally with the help of Zero. In the beginning of the book, Stanley is careless, unlucky, and desperate. With the curse against Stanley, he is bound to have bad luck, but this time, “He’d just been at the wrong place at the wrong time.” (Sachar 7).…

Stanley Yelnats has changed quite a lot through his adventure in many ways, but several changes are one of the key parts. Stanley’s friendship with Zero has changed him throughout the story , he became overweight too strong. A the begining he acknowledge the fact he was overweighed. “He was overweight and the kids at his school often teased him about his size,”(sachar 7).Stanley gets teased for his weight.”Stanley weighed three times as much as the other boys”(sachar 7).Comparing him to other…

In the film, Sky High, an action packed, family friendly film, it uses many film codes, such as Technical, Audio, and Symbolic codes. In this particular scene in this film, they used these codes effectively to create a feeling of fear and anticipation as the scene slowly progressed. Sky High is set in a superhero school on a floating island, and Will Stronghold is the main character who is soon to find his powers, while his parents are famous superheroes. There is a wide variety of Technical…

Stanly Yelnats has been through alot, and everyone at Camp Green Lake has changed him, but Hector Zeroni has definitely been the most help. Making him go through hard challenges and decisions, Zero has really helped shape Stanly. Stanly at the beginning may have been wimpy, but because of Zero, he has become brave and independent. Before Zero, Stanly was wimpy. Stanly, back in (Sachar 135), was bullied by Zigzag, and Zero had to defend him. Stanly is supposed to defend himself, rely on himself,…