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3 introduction: the novel 'Holes' by Louis Sachar, communicates the strong character of stanley yelnats by using the language technique of dialogue to show how hes changes from being low self estemed and degraded, to a hero who is recognised in society. when stanley yelnats is framed for a crime he did not commit and is sent to camp green lake, a camp where boys dig holes all day as punishment, he discovers something hed never none about before, something hed actualli been waiting for but just didnt see it coming.Louis Sachar uses the language technique of dialogue to express the way in which stanley slowley gains his courage and strength from his friends and learns that life isnt always ment to be the way it set, and that you could always make a change for the future.Readers of 'Holes' will enjoy this adventures yet life striving novel as it show how stanley travelles his depressing journey to a free life road. not only does this stay in a novel but connects to how society sees these situations from different points if views.

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Louis Sachars novel 'Holes' is a exploit novel that explores the changes in which stanley has travelled through and his feelings which have been expressed towards his life, while showing how the other characters in the novel take action towards his acts of support and need. the distinctive technique used to describe this in the novel was dialogue. the novel was placed written like a diary and expressed through one character (stanley yelnats) point of view. "twitch did everything wrong.He is a good example of how to survive. he was zeros replacement." and "nobody had a watch, but zigzag said hed count to five hundred. one mississipi, two mississipi...". this expresses to us, the audience, tat the way stanley sees everything around him is particularly different than everyone else. stanley yelnats is an individual who communicates and compliments on things and people in unique ways using dicriptive language.

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