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    “When you spend your hole life in a hole‚ the only way you can go is up” -Zero In this essay it will be demonstrated that it is possible to climb out of a “hole” if someone has the motivation and determination to do so. Stanley and Zero are example of this. Unfortunately this was not the case for Sam and Lewis (barf-bag). The novel “Holes” show that Stanley did endeavour to overcome his many challenges‚ Stanley show persistence in spite of how difficult or burdensome the mission seemed

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    English Essay on Holes The film codes and conventions are greatly used in the movie Holes‚ directed by Andrew Davis‚ to construct characters and develop the atmosphere. The film is about a young boy‚ Stanley Yelnats‚ who is falsely accused of stealing a pair of shoes. As a punishment‚ he is sent to camp Greenlake‚ where he meats and discovers an ancient secret that leads him to great treasure. Throughout the movie technical‚ symbolic‚ audio and written codes are used to demonstrate the characters’

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    Holes Essay: Intro: In the Film Holes different filmic conventions are used to portray characters and construct atmosphere. The film is about a young boy named Stanley Yelnats who follows a journey like his great great great grandfather did. He was sent to Camp Green Lakes for a crime that he did not commit and when he arrived at camp he uncovered some of his family secrets. Techniques such as camera angles‚ sound effects and color constructs the characters and atmosphere in the film which creates

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    Holes Essay How does holes explore important ideas and entertain viewers effectively? The movie Holes‚ directed by Andrew Davies in 2003‚ is a great example of a movie with many themes‚ symbols and motifs‚ film techniques and obviously lots of comedy‚ yet through this comedy and sometimes silly antics‚ deep down‚ it portrays good life ideas and provides a good example of important ideas. This essay will outline explain its important ideas including life lessons and important motifs and how

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    Holes Film Narrative

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    The film I chose for to study is the 2003-Andrew Davis directed-motion picture: Holes. It is based off the 1998 book written by Louis Sachar. The film tells parallel stories from two different time periods. That is the theme of its’ narrative. A narrative is a story‚ and how that story is told. Usually in movies‚ the narrative has a series of events that are connected in some way that all pull the story together. Holes uses connecting stories in multiple ways. It connects characters and places both

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    ENGLISH 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

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    town of Green Lake was all but abandoned after the Civil War.) There are also flashbacks to a village in Latvia in the mid-1800s. LIST OF CHARACTERS Major Characters Stanley Yelnats He is the fifteen-year-old main character‚ the protagonist of the novel. His family has a history of bad luck‚ and accordingly‚ Stanley is wrongfully convicted of stealing‚ and is sent to the detention center‚ Camp Green Lake. He arrives there an overweight boy with low self-esteem‚ but after befriending Zero

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    "Holes" by Louis Sachar

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    Plot:The story 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

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    Holes by Louis Sacher

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    Holes by Louis Sacher Theme Fate does play an important role in the lives of many of the characters in the novel Holes. Stanley’s great-great-grandfather was cursed with bad luck by Madame Zeroni because he did not carry her up the mountain as he had promised. The bad luck haunts his relatives for over a hundred years‚ until the day Stanley Yelnats the third fourth fulfils the promise of his great-great-grandfather by carrying Madame Zeroni’s great-grandson up a mountain and sing him Madame

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    Holes is a novel written by Louis Sachar published in 1998. The story revolves around Stanley Yelnats. He is falsely accused of stealing a pair of trainers‚ which were donated by Clyde Livingston “Sweet Feet” to a homeless shelter. When Stanley goes to trial he is given a choice between prison or Camp Green Lake. In a hurried decision him and his family choose Camp Green Lake without knowing that this place is a living nightmare‚ where you are forced to dig a 5ft wide and 5ft deep hole every day

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