Holes by Louis Sachar

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Characters
The main character's name is Stanley Yelnats. At first, you see stanley as an alright kid who has made a bad decision stealing. “ I stole some sneakers” (pg 22). Throughout the rest of the story you find that stanley is nice and always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. “He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time all thanks to his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather” (Pg 7). At school before camp Green Lake he was bullied and treated bad. “he didn’t have any friends at home, he was overweight” (pg 7). At camp Green Lake Stanley made a new friend, his best friend “Zero”. He get’s along great with Zero and teaches him how to read. “I’ll try and teach you how to read if you want, a big smile came across Zero’s face” (pg 96)
Ideas
In the beginning of the text the main idea is bad kids who have done something wrong face charges and are given the choice to go to camp green lake. The kids are here at the dried up lake to dig holes, they dig these ho...

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