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    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.…

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    why you make your choices wisely. This book A Hole in my Life by Jack Gantos is a story of a kid growing up, but makes a lot of mistakes growing up. He lived near Puerto Rico growing up, then moved to Florida and then back to Puerto Rico. They moved back to Puerto Rico because they didn't have enough money for Jack to go to school. When he moved back he started doing bad things: drugs, alcohol and he started working at a hotel. I think the thesis of A Hole in my Life is that money can make you…

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    An implosion within the portal sent Luke, surging through it blindly. His arms flailing helplessly until it shot him out like a bullet, crashing into an invisible barrier. In an instant, he materialized in the center of an otherwise dark room. It was Alaba’s conjuring room, now illuminated by a plethora of candles. An old lantern with a candle inside illuminates the king's face. Alaba, Ebadah and many of the great wizards of Spellville stood together, cloaked and dressed in heavy robes as…

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    “What’s this, I see, light?” Timmy hit the crack over and over again. The more he hit the crack the bigger it got. Timmy continued to work very hard and finally had a hole huge enough to get his head through. It still wasn’t substantial enough to get his body out, so he wiggled and squiggles and kept working to make the hole bigger. Finally he was able to get his head in his flipper through the shell. So he…

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    each of four subjects: black holes, dark matter, dark energy, and the multiverse theory. The first subject is black holes, which are regions of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation can escape. Their existence is greatly debated over, and it still has not been determined whether they exist. The second subject is dark matter. Dark matter is a placeholder that cannot be seen. It accounts for 27% of the matter in the universe, but like black holes its existence…

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    Sachar, Louis. Holes. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. Pgs. 233. The novel “Holes” by Louis Sachar is an adventure and mystery narrative that describes the adventures of Stanley Yelnats at Camp Green Lake. Camp Green Lake is a correctional facility for young boys, and that is where Stanley resides during the novel. It takes place in Green Lake, Texas, during the blistering summer. The leading character of this story is 14-year-old Stanley Yelnats. Stanley is a nice and…

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    (Sachar 41). Holes is a humorous take on the classic ‘adventure’ genre in children’s literature. It seamlessly blends several different themes and moods into one riveting story. It carries heavy ideas and scenarios, but with a whimsical and goofy air that entrances readers of any age. The symbolism the story carries, the way the reader can relate to Stanley, and the unwavering moral compass the story passes to young readers make this a classic adventure novel. The unique symbolism in Holes…

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    Stanley yelnats had to in the story Holes by Louis Sachar Stanley Yelnats “steals” a pair of famous pair shoes and gets sent to prison camp and he's forced into digging holes. Zero (Stanley's friend) runs away and stanley has to go find zero in a desert wasteland, will stanley find zero, read the book to find out. The theme of holes is growing up because stanley is innocent because he didn't steal the shoes, he learning from digging holes. He's a youth for running from…

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    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…

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    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…

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