...very scary in this book. Being with friends can help. Stanley Yelnats did not always have friends. At the beginning of Holes, Stanley was scared, but because of Zero he was brave by the end. Stanley was scared in the beginning because he did not know anybody. He was the new guy at Camp Green Lake. He had to go to the camp because they thought he has stole shoes, but he did not steal them. He thought he was going to get hurt. When he was in his cot, he thought it would break. Stanley was afraid of what would happen because of the curse. The curse was from his “no good, dirty rotten, pig stealing, great-great grandfather”. The curse would effect Stanley’s life immensely. Stanley was very scared because of all the things at Camp Green Lake and he did not have any friends to talk to in the beginning. At the end of the book, Stanley was brave because of Zero. Zero helped him have confidence. Everyone at the camp trusted Stanley. One of the campers named Squid asked Stanley to call his mom and apologize for him. Stanley taught Zero how to read and write even though other campers made fun of him. Stanley found his way back to camp with the help of Zero. They did not have any water, only had onions to eat, had to walk really far and they were alone. Zero and Stanley help each other even in the worst times possible. At the beginning of Holes Stanley was scared, but because of Zero he was brave by the end. This impacts Stanley’s future because he doesn’t have to...
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...Holes is a novel which was created by Louis Sachar. The novel won awards for the 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". It is a great novel that my class read and hear are the top 3 reasons why it is a great novel. The three things that make it a great novel are the link ups, the backtracking and the character descriptions that Louis Sachar wrote. My opinion on why Holes is a great novel is because of all the link ups in the story. The link ups in the story bring the story together and it is genius of Louis Sachar to do this because it make the audience want to read more. In the book Elya Yelnats gets cursed by Madam Zeroni until the 4th generation when Stanley Yelnats carries Hector Zeroni up the mountain and sings the song. After, the curse is broken. Trout Walker looks for the treasure that kissing Kate Barlow stole from Stanley Yelnats the first but when he has a baby girl she digs as well. Then she becomes the warden of Camp Green Lake and makes the other boys dig for the treasure. Then when Stanley and Hector find the treasure, they find Stanley’s name on it so they get to keep it....
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...How would you feel if you were cursed? Well, in the book Holes Stanley Yelnats was cursed. It all started when he was sent to Camp Green Lake. Before Stanley went to Camp Green Lake he was wimpy and relied on his parents, but after he went he was independant and had learned to take risks. Stanley has been cursed his entire life for something his ancestor Elya Yelnats did. Elya made a deal he did not follow through with. Elya was in love with a girl named Myra ( Sachar 28) and wanted her hand in marriage, so Elya went to his good friend Madam Zeroni ( Sachar 28). Madame Zeroni told Elya that he take one of her piglets and carry it up the mountain everyday and let the piglet drink water whilst he sing a song. and on the last day Elya must carry...
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...HOLES Have you ever been in trouble for someone's actions? Or have you ever been in trouble and digging holes for something you did? In this book by Louis Sachar Stanley is sent to a camp called Camp Green Lake and this camp is not all fun and games it is about digging holes all day for your punishment. The theme of holes is growing up because in the story, Stanley proves he is innocent for not stealing the shoes shows his ambition. And learns how to be responsible and learns responsibility. In the story Stanley is accused of stealing a famous baseball player’s shoe’s at a homeless shelter, and Stanley is sent to Camp Green Lake for digging holes for his punishment. Stanley must find a way to prove his innocence and Stanley is digging holes for nothing because he didn't steal the shoes. ‘‘You thirsty?’’ asked Mr.Sir ‘‘Yes Mr.Sir’’, Stanley said gratefully ‘‘Well, You better get used to it. You’re going to be thirsty for the next eighteen months’’(Sachar,25). Stanley worked and digging 1 hole every day in the hot sun for the warden and if...
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...Tears of a Tiger By Sharon Draper The conflict I can make a prediction about is that Andrew Jackson will probably do something bad to himself. Because when Robert Washington dies, Andrew feels awful. He wishes he was the one who burned to death. Andrew might even kill himself, because he feels so bad. Or he might hurt someone else or try to blame it on B.J., Tyrone, or maybe even on Robert One event that has surprised me in the story is that Keisha has stayed with Andy through thick and thin. She let him cry on her shoulder. And he said she’s the only one he feels comfortable around. Also that she is trying to stop thinking that he should’ve died. She also encourages Andy to think on the brighter side of his life. She even went everywhere with him to Rob’s funeral, the hospital and also the trial. Keisha’s also his best friend. I’ve read another book like this called “Unbroken.” It’s about this girl that lived a long time ago. Her mother dies, and she had a hard time getting over it. Andy is just like the girl. He’s trying to get over Rob dying, but he just can’t. He got mad at Keisha for no apparent reason, at talent show. The girl in “Unbroken” gets over her mother dying, little by little, but she’s still sad sometimes. But instead of doing what the girl did, Andy got worse and worse. Andy is still in his journey with trying to get over Rob dying. The symbolism of the title is that as strong and brave tigers are, they still cry sometimes. A new...
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...The novel “Holes” is a fictitious tale, with mystery, comedy, and adventure. “Holes” was written in 1998 in Texas by multi-award winning author Louis Sachar. Sachar was born March 20, 1954 in New York. He developed a love for reading in high school. He entered college and studied law. He needed to pick up a course, so he signed on to be a teacher’s aide. It became his favorite class (his first book mirrored his life as a teacher’s aide – “Louis the Yard”). Sachar practiced law until 1981 and decided to devote his time to writing. “Holes” is his most popular novel to date selling over 8 million copies worldwide and it had been made into a major motion picture by Disney. Sachar currently resides in Austin, Texas with his wife Carla and daughter Sherre. He continues to write daily focusing on stories for children and young adults. The main character is Stanley Yelnats IV (his last name spelled in reverse is his first name). There were many male Yelnats named Stanley for this reason. Stanley is overweight, bullied, has low self-esteem and no friends. He was cursed with bad luck (as all Yelnats have been for 125 years) because of his “no-good dirty rotten-pig-stealing” great-great grandfather who failed to follow instructions by Madame Zeroni. He never did steal a pig but was “cursed” with bad luck along with future Yelnat generations for disobeying Madame Zeroni. Stanley misses the school bus (a school mate put his books in the toilet), so he had to walk home...
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...Have you read the book Holes? Have you noticed that Stanley changes throughout the book? Before Stanley went to Camp Green Lake, he was selfish and did not have a great childhood because he would get made fun of in school. Stanley Changes throughout the book because of his friendship with Zero. Before his time at Camp Green Lake and at the beginning of his time there Stanley was looked down upon by others. “Be cool” said X-Ray he put his hand on Stanley’s shoulder.”You don’t want to mess with the Caveman,” he warned.”The Caveman is cool” said Armpit. (Sarchar 44) The text evidence proves that they look down on Stanley by saying that Caveman is cool and looking after him.” Then he returned to Zero, who had been quietly digging in his hole since...
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...I am currently reading the book Holes, by Louis sachar. I am really liking this book. I am especially liking the book because there is a movie of the book and I can compare the book to the movie. The main character, Stanley was given a choice, go to jail, or go to camp green lake. (Sachar6) It surprised me that they mentioned this right away in the book, I thought they would have an introduction and tell us who the characters were and other information we would need to know to understand the story. The book mentioned, “Stanley was not a bad kid, he was innocent of a crime in which he was convicted of.” (Sachar7) I wonder what the crime he was convicted of doing was and why they thought it was him, if he wasn’t the one who committed the crime....
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...The book ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar is about a group of “bad boys” who were sent to Camp Green Lake for committing crimes such as stealing and vandalism. At Camp Green Lake they have to dig holes every day in the middle of the heat to “build character”. Little did they know they were actually digging to find treasure that was buried many years ago. The main characters that are followed in the book are Stanley and Zero. Stanley was sent to Camp Green Lake for stealing a pair of famous baseballer’s shoes, which he didn’t actually steal. Zero was also sent to camp for stealing and abandoned as a child. He was always called stupid by the other boys and counsellors because he did not know how to read or write. There were many unfair acts evident throughout the novel such as: unsanitary living conditions, racist themes, and the bullying of Zero....
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...BLACK HOLE A black hole is a theoretical region of space in which the gravitational field is so powerful that nothing, not even electromagnetic radiation (e.g. visible light), can escape its pull after having fallen past its event horizon. The term derives from the fact that the absorption of visible light renders the hole's interior invisible, and indistinguishable from the black space around it. . The idea of an object with gravity strong enough to prevent light from escaping was proposed in 1783 by John Michell, an amateur British astronomer. In 1795, Pierre-Simon Laplace, a French physicist independently came to the same conclusion. Black holes, as currently understood, are described by the general theory of relativity. This theory predicts that when a large enough amount of mass is present in a sufficiently small region of space, all paths through space are warped inwards towards the center of the volume, preventing all matter and radiation within it from escaping. While general relativity describes a black hole as a region of empty space with a point-like singularity at the center and an event horizon at the outer edge, the description changes when the effects of quantum mechanics are taken into account. [pic]Name The term black hole to describe this phenomenon dates from the mid-1960s, though its precise origins are unclear. According to Einstein’s general theory of relativity, as mass is added to a degenerate star a sudden collapse will take place and the intense...
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...Stanley Yelnats, a main character in Holes, is under a curse. The curse began with Stanley’s great-great-grandfather. It all started when Stanley was accused of stealing shoes from an athlete, and he was sent to a detention for boys called Camp Green Lake. The boys sent to Camp Green Lake become”better” men by digging holes five feet wide and five feet deep. Stanley met a boy named Zero who never talked, although Stanley worked with Zero and they talked about why they were both there. Stanley helps Zero read and write and Zero helped Stanley dig his holes, but others started calling Zero Stanley’s slave. The next day, Zig Zag started a fight with Stanley and Dr. Pendanski then told Stanley to teach him a lesson, and when the second fight started,...
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...Black Holes and Their Mysteries Black holes are one of the most popular Hollywood science fiction topics also one of the most mysterious entities in space. Astronomers still have many questions regarding the darkest entity in space, black holes, but over time they began to analyze more and more clues and data, and are now able to explain what a black hole really is. Astronomers have come up with theories of the formations of black holes, the component of black holes as well as many other new discovered facts. What is a black hole? There are many theories to this question. Some people believe it is a tunnel for time traveling, others believe it is a portal for teleportation. At this moment there are no scientific proofs to support these believes. There are still countless unanswered questions, questions like what is on the other end of the black hole. Why they exist? Can astronomers fully understand them? These questions may never be answered but here is what astronomers believe. Scientifically speaking a black hole is an area of space that have abnormally large amount of gravity, so much gravity that not even light can escape. There is no certain explanation of the formation of black holes. However astronomers currently have very solid theories of how they are formed. One of which is the theory that is stated by Stephen Hawking claiming that “trillions of black holes were produced in the Big Bang, with some still existing today.” The main theory for larger black...
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...According to the article Black holes first, galaxies second it has been found out that each galaxy has a black hole in the center (16). By observing motions of gas it had been suggested that early galaxies were 30 times as huge as central black holes. Therefore, it has been suggested that galaxies are formed around black holes (16). Doppler shifts show the black hole mass. Astronomers believe that both the hole and the galaxies can stop growing (16). As stated in Spinning Hearts of Darkness “Astronomers are measuring the rotation rates of black holes to determine their rotation and history” (Brenneman, 20). A black holes’ gravity is so strong that light can’t pass through it (20). As stated in the article Black holes are neither let in light or let it come out (Brenneman, 21). Black holes can be up to billions solar masses. Measuring a black holes spin is important because it can tell us about its history (22). Black holes that occur because of mergers with other black holes will grow slower than those that occur by accretion. As stated in Brenneman “Black holes occur at random angles which alter the spin direction and speed of resulting black hole”(22). Einstein’s general theory of relativity the black hole spins in the same direction as its rotation disk. The disks’s "Black Holes First, Galaxies Second." Sky & Telescope 117.5 (2009): 16. MasterFILE Elite. EBSCO. Web. 13 Oct. 2011. BRENNEMAN, LAURA. "Spinning Hearts of Darkness. (cover story)." Sky & Telescope...
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...So what exactly are black holes? Lets put it this way. A black hole is just another thing a star can turn into when it runs out of fuel, in this case it is simply a massive ex-star that has collapsed. Black holes are very interesting and the properties that define them are how they are in mass, size, and what makes them black, how they are created, how they are observed. The creation of black holes is very interesting in my opinion. Basically you have a star with “critical mass” that has collapsed under its own weight until it became a black hole. If the star is heavy enough, it can develop into a black hole. Due to its density the star makes a dent in space-time curvature that is infinitely long. Because of this, it is very possible that they play an important role in galaxy formation and evolution according to scientists. But why is a black hole black? The reason for this is because the escape velocity of a black hole, which is the speed needed to leave the earth, is greater than the speed of light therefore the photons cannot leave. The explanation is fairly easy, light does not have a high enough speed to leave a black hole so it cannot escape. Think about shining a flashlight on a black hole. This would be useless because when flashlight photons hit an object, we only see the because they bounce off the object . In this case though, the photons of the light will just fall into the black hole and never come back out. The same with stars because we cannot see light coming...
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