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
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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
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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
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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
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nley yelnats, Stanley yelnats is a boy who goes to camp Green lake, a bad kids correctional phacillity. Along the journey at camp Green lake, stanley makes friends, and his friendships change him. In the story we see that sanley changes physically, and externally, these changes are all important. Stanley changes durassically and so does his appearance. Stanley isn't the only character who changes , there are alot of characters who change. Stanley's friendship with zero changes him because throughout
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Holes This novel’s author is Louis Sachar and their also is a movie out that is also called holes. The part of the story I was reading was at the time Zero or Hector Zeroni. Zero whacks one of the guards with his shovel. Then the next day Zero runs away from the camp called camp Green Lake which used to have a lake a few hundreds of years ago. After a week Stanley Yelnats, a fat and long kid who is not really that strong runs away too because he wants to find Zero. After walked about five miles
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Holes “There is no lake at Camp Green lake”. (The ather is Louis Sttancher on page 3). The theme of Holes is growing up because Stanly luring ,he shows youth ,and respasblitte. Instead of a lake it is a dry wasteland that is covered in holes. There was a lake, but it dry up with the town. “There is no lake at Camp Green Lake”(stancher pg3) One way that Stanley is growing up by learning that Camp Green Lake is not a lake it is dry and hot. Stanley thought that Camp Green Lake was a fun place
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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
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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
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Stanley Yelnats is a wimp, but throughout his journey at Camp Green Lake, he learns to be strong and fearless. He was a wimp because he was afraid of his group mates and he was acting too nice to them.although he was a wimp at first he becomes brave and strong after saving Zero and finding the treasure chest. “Stanley stared at him terrified” (Sachar 20). Stanley accidently called Armpit by his real name,Theodore.This caused Armpit to push Stanley to the ground but Stanley didn't fight back. “Back
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