Essay on "Holes" by Luis Sachar

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Holes

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In Holes it is said that “if you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every

day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy”. In what ways does Stanley Yelnats change and develop as a character during the course of the novel?

Holes is a novel written by Luis Sachar. It’s about Stanley Yelnats, a boy who is often teased at school because he’s overweight. Stanley has extremely low confidence, and when he is wrongly accused of stealing a pair of sneakers he is sent to a juvenile detention center called Camp Green Lake. During his stay there a whole new world opens up to him involving new friends, treasure and digging lots of holes.

 A Juvenile Detention Center can be compared to prisons, but the difference is that it’s for minors that break the law. That person is held there for a period of time, depending on how serious the crime was and if he/she is considered dangerous out in the community.

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When Stanley was sent to Camp green lake I think he got some kind of confident- boost because he got to know many new friends, and the most important part: He became accepted, and I think that really made him feel like he was a part of something special and that he finally felt like he belonged somewhere,  knowing that he has got friends around him going through the same thing might have kept him from going completely mad at a tough place like Camp Green Lake, where digging holes out in the hot sun is supposedly “character building”. ...

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