following question with the best detail you can find from the novel. Answer in full sentences! Quiz 1. Why did Stanley get sent to Green Lake Camp? 2. Why doesn’t Stanley blame the judge for finding him guilty? 3. What is more dangerous than Scorpions and Snakes at Camp Green Lake? 4. What was Kissing Kate’s full name and what mark did she leave? 5. What was the promise that Elya Yelnats made with Madame Zeroni? 6. Describe the characteristics of the Yellow spotted lizards. 7. What is Stanley’s
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"Holes" is the story of Stanley Yelnats‚ a young boy that has been sent to Camp Green Lake for something he didn’t do. He believes his family is under a curse‚ and the curse has come to rest on him. However‚ throughout the story we can tell that Stanley is adaptable because he soon made some friends in the camp‚ he quickly learned the rules of the camp and he is becoming like the other boys. These facts can be illustrated in the quotes from the book. First of all‚ he always cares for others no matter
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foot wide by 5 foot deep hole. That’s the life of Stanley Yelnats IV in the book “Holes” by Louis Sachar. The book “Holes” is a mystery comedy novel released on August 20th‚ 1989. The book “Holes” Starts off with a teenager named Stanley Yelnats IV. Stanley and his family have had bad luck ever since his no good dirty rotten pig-stealing great great grandfather Elya Yelnats made a promise he did not keep. But we’ll get to that later. After Stanley has to get his wet book from the bathroom after his
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Holes‚ through the influence of Zero’s friendship‚ Stanley changes from unloyal to loyal. In the beginning of the novel Stanley showed he is unloyal and not a true friend. Stanley shows he doesn’t care about Zero when he says‚ “He stopped writing as Zero walked into the tent‚ then returned to his letter. He didn’t care what Zero thought. Zero was nobody.” (Sachar 81) If Stanley really valued Zero he wouldn’t think of him as a nobody. Stanley reveals Zero isn’t a priority as he thinks to himself
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describes the thoughts‚ actions and activities of the characters‚ especially Stanley as if there was a ‘fly on the wall’. What makes this novel interesting is that the plot uses a series of flashbacks to tell the story‚ ranging from past to present. The main plot talks about a young boy called Stanley Yelnats and his experience at an all boys camp. The other plot talks about Stanley’s great-great grandfather Elya Yelnats and how an old lady called Madame Zeroni puts a curse on his descendants. Another
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at a boys’ juvenile detention center situated in the dried up bed of a fictional lake in Texas. Most of the story is set in contemporary time‚ around the end of the 1990s. There are flashbacks to the town of Green Lake‚ which existed one hundred ten years earlier before the lake dried up. (Note: There is an actual Green Lake‚ one of the largest lakes in Texas‚ southwest of Port Lavaca‚ but the real town of Green Lake was all but abandoned after the Civil War.) There are also flashbacks to a village
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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
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ESSAY – ‘HOLES’ BY LOUIS SACHAR Louis Sachar‚ the author of ‘Holes‚’ uses the protagonist‚ Stanley‚ to explore the themes and main concerns of the novel. He does this by unfolding the plot into three different stories. He also uses Stanley to investigate the characters and their traits‚ for example‚ we found out that Zero could not read but could add and multiply number very quickly. In the book‚ Stanley is described as a friendless‚ self-conscious‚ overweight fifteen-year-old boy. Throughout the
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well in 25 years as it does now. Overweight‚ unpopular Stanley Yelnats (notice the palindrome) finds a cool pair of sneakers that literally fall from the sky and hit him on the head. Unfortunately‚ this weird bit of luck lands him in court where he is charged with stealing the famous‚ smelly pair of sneakers that happens to belong to famous baseball player Clyde Livingston who had just donated them for a charity auction. In court‚ Stanley tells the truth about how he found the shoes‚ or rather
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Holes is about a boy named Stanley Yelnats. His whole family (except forhis mother) believes that the Yelnats family is under a curse. They always have bad luck. One day after Stanley is walking home from school‚ a pair of shoes fell from an overpassand hit him on the head. They were the shoes of a famous baseball player‚ ClydeLivingston. Stanley did not know‚ so he kept them and got arrested because hesupposedly stole them. He ends up going to a juvenile camp‚ Camp Green Lake. Hispunishment is that
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