Stanley Yelnat's Change In Holes, By Louis Sachar

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In Holes by Louis Sachar the character Stanley Yelnat’s emotions changing mainly from being Weak to Brave. He faced many difficulties being bullied hurt or even being close to death he still surpassed them all by not only having a companion but being proven innocent for something he did not do in the past. I think that everything in the story including god’s thumb and the boat that had the sploosh to help the story feel alive and magical in a sort of weird way. In the first part of the story Stanley Yelnats(the main character) was accused of stealing a pair of some really important persons sneakers so he went in front of a judge and the judge says for this crime you either go to prison or Camp Green Lake and guess what he chose CAMP GREEN …show more content…

But as the Next day came around it was time to dig a hole he tried to dig but his shovel bounced right off the ground. So he kept trying to dig until a bright light came upon him a fairy godmother. Okay that actually didn’t happen, he just watched the other campers digging and then he found out how to dig. So as the story progresses on he meets a kid named Zero or Hector Zeroni but everyone calls him zero so it’s Zero (this person is Stanley's companion later on) Zero can’t read for whatever reason so stanley agrees to helping him learn how to spell, read, write etc: and for exchange of Zero digging some of Stanley’s hole each day. So that goes on and the boys keep bothering him about the fact that he sits there half the day resting while they do work. Eventually Zero wanted to leave after mr. Pendanski insulted him and he ran away to the boat he's been living off of sploosh a substance not known to man. Then stanley keeps contemplating if Zero is alive or not so he runs away to find Zero at the boat then stanley and zero head off to god’s thumb which is a GIANT mountain and they went there and they found water and onions wh… why onions. I don’t know but they live for about a week off those which

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