Argumentative Essay On Holes By Louis Sachar

In the desert there’s Camp Green Lake a boys' juvenile detention center in Texas, but there is no lake and all day the boys just dig. Unfortunately Stanley’s sent to Camp Green Lake for a crime he did not commit. You’d never fully understand the novel Holes by Louis Sachar until you’ve read it, the end of the novel was kind of surprising, but I feel more details should have used about involving when Zero comes home at the end. At the beginning of the novel holes Stanley was not fit, very athletic, or confident he was thoughtful and kind which are good traits to but when he meets his new cabin he changes in a less positive way. According to the author Stanley’s often bullied for his weight sometimes his teachers would do without knowing it (Sachar 7). Though Stanley's weight changed throughout the book and so did the bullying it stopped at one point. As stated by Sachar, He was innocent of the crime he’s convicted yet no one believed him (Sachar 7). Still everyone thought Stanley was lying because his story was so crazy

Stanley carried zero up the mountain (Sachar 170). When Stanley carried Zero up the mountain it was helping him with his weight because It is not easy to carry people less up a mountain. “‘I stole the shoes, said zero’” (Sachar 225). When zero admits to stealing the shoes it helps Stanley with his problem knowing he was not making up some dumb story and people would start to believe him. Then he turned to zero who was quietly digging, and his hole was much smaller than the others. (Sachar 94). Stanley changed at this point of the novel when zero dug his hole he started a new friendship and started to respect him and gain his trust. Zero was a big part of Stanley's change in the novel because If zero wasn’t in Stanley's life he wouldn't have gone to Camp Green Lake and met the people he did, and his life wouldn't have changed for the