... himself. He blames everything on to his grandfather in the beginning. Later he realizes that anything that happens is because of him and not anyone else. In the novel Holes there are a few central conflicts, but the main conflict would have to be Stanley going to Camp Green Lake. If he never went to the camp, he would ... accused of stealing shoes of Clyde Livingston a very famous ballplayer. In camp he had to go through bad things. He had to dig five feet deep and wide holes everyday. He had to work in the sun without much water. These were all rooted to his arrival at Camp Green Lake. T...

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• Grade Level: High School

The book I read was Holes. This book was written by Louis Sachar. This novel was a novel written for kids to understand cause and effect. It was also written to show someone being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Throughout the story there is a feeling of remorse for Stanley. The reader feels bad for what he must go through. The novel takes place at ... Stanley gets into trouble. Then the story picks up when Stanley is sent to Camp Green Lake. When he is there the counselors are very rough, excpt for Mom. He is forced to dig holes every day, to a certain diameter and depth. Eventually St...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... even though they were digging in the wrong hole). They found nothing. When they all go back to digging their own 5 feet holes, Stanley gets all the blame put on him for eating Mr. Sir's sunflower seeds. Mr. Sir takes Stanley to see the Warden, but she ends up harming Mr. Sir instead ... longed to know where his friend is. He wanted to know if he was safe and alive. After a few days, Stanley ran away to look for Zero. He found Zero famished in an old overturned boat. He had been living on jars of old peaches. With Stanley's help, Zero made it to ... Big Thumb Mountain where they found wa...

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• Grade Level: High School

... fun place to be as Stanley learns, but a place of drugery and heat. Stanley, like his new found friends, has to dig holes ever day as a punishment for their crimes. The Warden is looking for a treasure and the boys are unaware of this until they find a few objects in one of their ... holes. Kissing Kate Barlow's lipstick holder was found and for finding the treasure, one of the kids got to have a day off for rest. One of Stanley's best friends is nicknamed Zero, ... because he can't read and isn't very smart. Zero gets sick of digging holes and runs away on a ... heat stroke.) Stanley ...

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• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

"Holes" is a book about a boy named Stanley Yelnats. He is actually Stanley Yelnats IV. His ancestors have always liked how, if they name their sons "Stanley", their names will be spelled the same way forwards and backwards. The story begins when Stanley gets in trouble for supposedly stealing baseball great Clyde ... Lake. Camp Green Lake is a camp that isn't green, nor has a lake. In this camp, for "bad boys" as the book describes it, the attendees dig holes. To be more descriptive, they dig 5" by 5" holes, one each day. They are told that after months of this process, they will be transfor...

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• Grade Level: High School

... his seeds were stolen. So he should have still filled his canteen because if it were him out there in the desert digging holes all day he would want water and he shouldn't have done it for as long as he did. So that is the thing in the book that I didn't think was right to do. ... I read the book Holes by Louis Sachar. This book was about a kid named Stanley Yelnats who was accused and tried of stealing a pair of Clyde ... Stanley must prove the truth. The main character is Stanley Yelnats. One problem that Stanley faces in this book is that a curse has been set on his family for generat...

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• Grade Level: High School

Holes Holes by Louis Sachar's is a cool book. Stanley Yelnats is an unusual hero-dogged by bad luck coming from an ancient family curse. He is overweight, and unlikely to stick up for himself when challenged by the class bully; even though he is a really big kid for his age. He was in the wrong place, at ... something else in mind. At the camp, Stanley meets Zero, the boy that committed the boy that committed the crime that Stanley was blamed for, for this was a fortunate event for Stanley becuase it allowed him to break the ancient curse that was bringing him bad luck. the boy that committed...

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• Grade Level: High School

... weight. He was often teased about his weight, even by his middle school teacher Mrs. Bell. He was picked on by the school bully Derrick Dunne. For generations Stanley's family believed a gypsy had placed a curse on their "no-good-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather" Elya Yelnats. Who years before broke ... later Stanley was accused and convicted of stealing. Upon his conviction, Stanley was given the chose to either go to jail or to Camp Green Lake for eighteen months. Since, coming from a poor family and never being sent off to a camp Stanley chose Camp Green Lake. There was one...

• Word Count: 675
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School