Holes By Louis Sachar Essay

Holes, by Louis Sachar, was a book first published in the year 1998 as a mystery novel accompanied by humor. The book was also made into a movie in the year 2003. Later in the year 1999, Sachar’s Holes became a Newbery Medal winner. The book takes place at a detention camp for boys named Camp Green Lake. The main character, Stanley Yelnats, is there for a crime he supposedly did not commit. The boys are all forced to dig holes each and every day that are five feet wide five feet deep so it will help enforce their character. The book is a thriller with mysterious aspects as well as humorous aspects and is the perfect book for all to read. Stanley had always had bad luck. Unfortunately, this wasn’t because of him, but his great great
Only a day or two afterwards, Stanley steals the water truck in attempt to go find Zero, but crashes into a hole after a very short distance. Stanley then runs away from the camp and continues to venture out into the desert to look for his friend. Eventually, Stanley finds Zero in a overturned boat surviving off of Kate Barlow's preserved jarred peaches. Soon in the book, we discover that Zero is the descendant of the one legged gypsy that cursed Stanley’s great great grandfather and has the ability to make things right for the Yelnats and forgive the curse. The original reason for the curse is that Stanley's grandfather was supposed to carry Madame Zeroni, the one legged gypsy, up a mountain to make her stronger to drink water from a creek while he sings. He promised to do this because she gave him a pig to turn into a prize winning pig by carrying it up the mountain daily to drink as he sang. However, he stowed away on a ship to the United States instead of carrying Zeroni up the mountain and she cursed him for not keeping his promise. Meanwhile the two boys discover a mountain which looks like a big thumb and decide to climb it. In the duration of the climb, both boys become dehydrated and Zero blacks out, making him incapable of further movement. Stanley carries him up the mountain, which both allows them to find onions and water and relieves the Yelnats of the curse. After