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“If you take a amateurish boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a well-behaved boy” (Sachar 5). By making a bad boy and making them be in the blazing sun is that now they will learn how to never come back nor get in trouble. In the novel holes from, Louis Sachar. Stanley changes from poor and overweight to rich and strong because of how Sachar describes him in the beginning , the middle, and the end. At the beginning of the novel, Stanley is poor, and overweight. The author writes… “ Stanley was from a poor family. He had never been to a camp before” (Sachar 5). Stanleys family couldn’t afford Stanley to go to camp. The author writes… “ He was overweight and the kids at his middle school …show more content…
The author writes… “He scraped at the dirt wall, until he exposed one entire side of the box object” (Sachar 201). For the cause of him getting rich, they went back to the camp to dig where they originally found the lipstick tube. The author writes… “Stanley took hold of Zeros forearms and pulled him upright. Then he stooped down and let Zero fall over his right shoulder. He stood up lifting Zeros worn out body off the ground” (Sachar 170). This is the cause of how Stanley changed from overweight to strong. For him carrying Zero up the mountain. As a result, Stanley made a true friend. Stanley caged from poor to rich from overweight to strong. The author writes.. “There was a small party at the yelnats house. Except for Stanley and hector everyone was adults” (Sachar 166). He was finally rich and they had a nice house when famous people would come over like Clyde Livingston. The author writes..” He gathered his strength and for a brief second seemed to defy gravity as he took a quick step up the wall” (Sachar 166). Saying that the more he works every day he was strong enough to not feel the gravitational pull on him. Stanley changed a lot during the beginning, middle ,

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