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    with Stanley’s great- great grandfather. She’s the woman who cursed Stanley’s family. C. Eyla Yelnats is Stanley’s great-great grandfather who caused his whole family to be cursed. D. Stanley goes to Camp Green Lake because he supposedly stole shoes. Students teased Stanley about his weight. Stanley was given the nickname Caveman at Camp. E. Zigzag is the weirdest kid at Camp Green Lake his real name is Ricky. F. Stanley’s father is an inventor who is trying to invent a way to recycle

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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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    two themes closely as we are taken an a journey through \ around camp green lake with Stanley‚ a character who has been wrong fully accused of stealing a pair of sneakers. Through the techniques\ ideas of characterisation setting and themes‚ the author is successful in communicating different ideas about power. The first technique is characters in holes are used to show how different people have different levels of power. Stanley‚ the main character is described as being overweight‚ shy and unpopular

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    Question 27: Stanley gets hit by a pair of sneakers and the police found him. Stanley found a gold empty tube‚ which turns out to be the lipstick that belonged to Kate Barlow. Stanley begins a friendship with Zero. He teaches him how to read. Zero ran away from camp after being insulted by the camp leader and Mr. Sir. Stanley and Zero find a case‚ which is the lost treasure of Kate Barlow. Question 7 Setting -the book holes takes place in a juvenile detention center that is in a lake in Texas. Most

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    teaches us that who we truly are lies deep within us and that friendship can bring it out in you. The book is set in the not completely uninhabited part of a desert known as Camp Greenlake. It is here Stanley Yelnats is sent for something he never did. As Mr. Sir said “Camp Greenlake isn’t a girl scout camp”. It is also here that Stanley meets friends that will stick with him for a long time to come. There is one small drawback to Holes though. The book can be quite monotonous and repetitive up until part

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    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. An instance of this is when Stanley got convicted of thief‚ although the conditions were hard at camp he continued his daily duties and did not give into despair

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    teenagers can relate to. One of these characters is Stanley. Stanley is the main character from the novel. When he first arrives at Camp Green Lake Stanley was bullied by the inmates and put in his place. He soon became friends with the inmates from group D. Everyone in group D had a nickname. Stanley had yet to get one but when he was called Caveman for the first time he finally felt that he was accepted into the group. “ you coming caveman? Said squid. Stanley looked around to see that armpit and squid

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    Why is Zero running away from camp and Stanley’s chase after him the key moment in ‘Holes’? * This scene shows a development in Stanley and Zero’s relationship. Stanley now understands Zero and why he doesn’t answer the Warden’s questions. “Zero just didn’t like answering questions.” * Stanley now trusts Zero – “he’d learned not to doubt him when it came to math.” * Zero finally stands up to Mr. Pendanski‚ before running away through either fear‚ frustration or both. Mr. Pendanski had

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    are many different challenges that Stanley Yelnats (the main character) from the bestselling novel Holes written by Louis Sachar has to over come. Stanley was first seen in the movie when a tilted shot of shoes hit him in the head and he fell on the ground portraying he was weak and a bit stupid. Stanley’s personality was also displayed when his mum was so shocked when the police came around to their house telling them Stanley had stolens‚ this shows that Stanley had never commited a crime before

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    setting‚ plot and characters in the text‚ holes. My first support to this claim will be setting. Sachar has set the novel primarily at the youth detention centre ‘Camp Green Lake’ where every boy has committed some form of crime in order to be sent to the camp as punishment and rehabilitation. As Stanley is escorted into Camp Green Lake‚ a sign declared it was a violation of the Texas Penal Code to bring guns‚ explosives‚ weapons or alcohol onto the premises’ (p.12). This immediately sets the scene

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