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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The making of a murderer. How does one come to commit murder? Well‚ it is obvious that in Holes‚ by Louis Sachar‚ Kate Barlow´s experiences influenced her motives to become a killer outlaw. Step one to the making of a murderer: Destroying everything one loves and cares about. Kissin´n Kate Barlow was not always Kissin´n Kate. Believe or not she too was once a pleasing person‚ known as Katherine Barlow. In her normal life she was a teacher with a school house. Her school house was in dire
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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
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Holes‚ by Louis Sachar‚ was a book first published in the year 1998 as a mystery novel accompanied by humor. The book was also made into a movie in the year 2003. Later in the year 1999‚ Sachar’s Holes became a 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
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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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Louis Sachar‚ an American writer‚ once wrote‚ “A lot of people don’t believe in curses. A lot of people don’t believe in yellow-spotted lizards either‚ but if one bites you it doesn’t make a difference whether you believe or not” (Sachar 41). The book I read was Holes by Louis Sachar. This book is about a boy‚ named Stanley Yelnats‚ who is ‘cursed’ with bad luck. The ‘curse’ started with Stanley’s no-good pig stealing great great grandfather. During the early parts of the story‚ Stanley is arrested
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The novel holes by Louis Sachar showcases many major teen issues‚ in particular crime‚ affecting today’s youth. Teen crime is when an individual under the age of the majority acts against the law. Teen crime features very clearly in the novel and Sachar displays the consequences‚ effects and examples of the issue throughout the novel. This issue will be explored through an analysis of the setting‚ plot and characters in the text‚ holes. My first support to this claim will be setting. Sachar has set
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yourself until you’re tested. The book "Holes" by Louis Sachar tells a story of Stanley Yelnats‚ who happened to be under a curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather. Throughout the days in Camp Green Lake‚ he was able to discover the real history of his family. I enjoyed reading the adventures in this book even though the ending seems a bit unrealistic. In personal opinion‚ there were several different purposes of Louis Sachar writing this novel. First of all
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no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-grandfather. Louis Sachar has contributed to American literature by writing children’s books‚ in which his greatest strength as a writer is his creation of imagery that produces imagery in the reader’s head. In the novel Holes‚ by Louis Sachar one of Sachar’s themes of the novel is that obstructing promises can be a crucial characteristic depicting the way one will live the rest of his life‚ for example being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Sachar certifies this through his use
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The opening of Holes is effective for many reasons. There are more than just a few techniques that authors use to entice readers and I am going to be looking at those that Holes author Louis Sachar used. The first sentence of the first chapter is very interesting as it is a contradictory phrase that confuses the reader and throws them off guard. A boy named Stanley Yelnats has been sent to a place named Camp Green Lake. However‚ confusingly‚ the first sentence simply states ‘there is no lake at
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