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“ He smiled. It was a family joke. Whenever anything went wrong they would always blame it on Stanley’s no-good-dirty-rotten-great-great- grandfather.” In Louis Sachar’s book Holes, a boy named Stanley is falsely arrested and sent to Camp Green Lake accused of stealing a pair of sneakers.While at Camp, Stanley went through a lot of changes. Three of which caught my eye. Stanley has experienced lots of changes, but the most obvious one was his external strength. Text evidence from page7 says that Stanley was often teased for his size. So, since Stanley was overweight people would often make fun of him and call him mean names. The text evidence from page 59 shows the turning point after he starts digging holes. After digging so much, Stanley

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