Holes

HOLES

By: Louis Sachar

 

Holes, by Louis Sachar is about a boy named Stanley Yelnats. Stanley Yelnats is a very good boy until people accuse him for stealing a pair of shoes. Clyde Livingston’s pair of shoes. Clyde Livingston is a famous baseball player. Stanley is forced to go to Camp Green Lake which is for bad boys.When Stanley arrived he got instructions and went to his cabin where he met his roomates and counselors. Everyday he would dig a hole. He was always the last one done.His best friend Zero wanted to learn how to read, so everyday Zero would dig half of Stanley’s hole and for the rest of the day Stanly would teach Zero how to read. Until the Warden came. The Warden is the boss of all the campers and counselors. When Zigzag and Stanley had a fight Zero went and choked Zigzag but then he ran away.Then Stanley went after him a couple of days later. He wanted to make sure Zero was still alive.

 

Stanley did not really deserve to be there.He was actually a very nice boy. At school he was always hanging around and acting lazy. He would always blame everything that was bad in his life onto his no-good, dirty, pig-stealing, great grandfather. But then after he went to Camp Green Lake he started to take his life more seriously. He is also unlucky,he is also shy, and he is very loyal. He is unlucky because he is always somewhere at the wrong time. Like when the shoes fell, he was actually supposed to be on the bus. But instead he missed the bus and had to walk. He is shy because he didn’t talk very much when he met all his roomates, Mr.Pendanski,and Mr.Sir. Also Stanly just listened to X Ray when he told him to just give him whatever he finds next.He can be loyal because when his best friend at the camp ran away Stanley went after him. Also he was the only one in the D tent that would understand Zero. Plus he would never tell on anyone in the camp. He is a very friendly person that would never want to do anything bad.

 

I think the author’s message is that if you are a good person you would always win because when the Warden thought that she deserved the money that Kate Barlow stole, the box said that it was actually Stanley’s. This story is also about being positive all the time. Like Stanley thought that he had fun when he was at Camp Green Lake like he never thought about the Warden and the bad things she could do to him. He was scared of his friends sometimes. Also I think that in this book Stanley was thinking about other people. Like his family and his friend Zero. Stanley didn’t want to hurt anyone because he was scared of them. He understood that Zero was a very smart kid but wasn’t educated. I think that it is very surprising that everyone thought that it Zero was very stupid because he didn’t talk very much. Like they don’t really don’t know about him and what he has been through. Like his mother left him because she thought she wasn’t able to take care of him. I think this book is like 43 Cemetery Road because in that book everyone is the neighborhood thinks that Semor Hope is crazy because he believes in ghosts. I think that it is really important that you don’t judge someone by what they do in front of you. This book is a book that has a lot of examples of things that you should do and not do. Like you shouldn’t choke someone, or steal, and you should do is care for other people like your family, and your friends. That’s what Stanley did. I think this story is very inspirational! I would probably recommend it to all kids so they can understand how important it is to be a good kid.   

 

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