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T.C. Boyle’s “Greasy Lake” employs excellent use of setting to contextualize the events of the narrative. The characters, Digby, Jeff, and the narrator are teens in the peak of rebellion, three thrill seekers looking to break up the monotony of their lives with their misadventures at the “Greasy Lake”, a refuse filled pond that is a hub of drug use and crime. On one such excursion, the group encounters a man who typifies what they believe themselves to be, a “Bad greasy character”. Their…

After being asked the question, “Where do you see yourself in 10 years”, Colleen Mackey responded by saying “Hopefully retired and back in my hometown of White Bear Lake where I grew up”. Colleen sat smiling, while she talked about her childhood and teenage years spent in White Bear Lake. Colleen is a successful woman who spends her days running a Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center and caring for people who are dealing with an addiction or a mental issue. Colleen has had many twists and turns in…

unique symbolism in Holes rivals no other. One symbol that followed the plot the entire way is the weather. Not only does the dry and barren atmosphere represent Stanley’s outlook during his arrival at Camp Green Lake, it also symbolizes the despair and violence that poisoned the once lovely lake town. The fact that is began to rain just as Stanley and Zero were being released reversed the stain on the area caused by so much. Another unlikely symbol is the onions. Not only did the fragrant…

Have you ever had to carry your friend up a mountain? 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…

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…

poor boy with bad luck due to his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great- grandfather. Stanley is accused of stealing a baseball players shoes that were up for auction at a homeless shelter, a crime he did not commit. He is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp , for his punishment. The camp is run by the Warden, an angry violent woman, Mr.Sir, a counselor who always has sunflower seeds, and Mr. Pendanski, the person in charge At this camp, him and many other boys like…

Louis Sachar Louis Sachar 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…

In the book holes, by Louis Sachar, Stanley Yelnats and his family are curse with bad because his great-great-grandfather and is sent to camp green lake for punishment, for a crime that he did not do. At this camp Stanley is forced to dig holes in the hot sun. Moving along in the story Stanley gets to know the other boys at the camp but he becomes great friends with one in particular. They become very close and they both run away from the camp. After they run away the set out to what they call…

Holes, written by the excellent author, Louis Sachar, is an adventure and mystery book with a humorous touch. The story takes place mainly at the hot and humid Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility where there is no lake, and no happy campers. In place of what used to be "the largest lake in Texas" is now a dry, flat, sunburned wasteland. It hasn’t rained there for over a hundred years. The only living plants there were two large trees and a hammock stretched out between the trees. Of…

“There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. There once was a very large lake, the largest lake in Texas. That was over 100 years ago. Now it’s just a dry flat wasteland.” (Sachar 3) But Stanley didn’t know that. Little did Stanley this camp would change his life forever. In the novel “Holes” destiny forces Stanley to encounter situations, and he chooses which path to follow. Stanley changes from weak and shy to happy and self reliant because of how Sachar describes him showing weakness,…