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Holes Have you ever been accused of something that you didn’t do? Well, the book Holes by Louis Sachar is about a young boy named Stanley who ended up being in the wrong place at the wrong time and got accused of something that he didn’t do.The main idea of Holes is about growing up because Stanley shows that he can take responsibility, he has youth, and Zero starts his learning. “I stole it from your truck”(Sachar, page 86). That’s what Stanley said after he got caught with Mr.Sir’s bag of…

Plot The book is about a boy named Stanley Yelnats IV, who is supposedly a very unlucky person because of a family curse. He was sent to Camp Green Lake, after being falsely accused of stealing a pair of sneakers that belonged to a famous baseball player, Clyde Livingstone, from a charity auction to benefit the homeless. At camp Green Lake, Stanley was assigned a bed and given two pairs of clothes and a shovel. Stanley and the other boys who stayed there had to dig one hole each day which was…

thief.” (Sachar 23). The text shows that Stanley gets distracted from the topic that he’s going to juvie. What Clyde Livingston thinks of him isn’t suppose to be the worst part. Stanley should’ve been more concerned about himself going to Camp Green Lake. For a while, Stanley has always wanted…

In the film, Sky High, an action packed, family friendly film, it uses many film codes, such as Technical, Audio, and Symbolic codes. In this particular scene in this film, they used these codes effectively to create a feeling of fear and anticipation as the scene slowly progressed. Sky High is set in a superhero school on a floating island, and Will Stronghold is the main character who is soon to find his powers, while his parents are famous superheroes. There is a wide variety of Technical…

Fun fact: Camp Green Lake doesn’t have a lake and, hardly anything is green. This desert is where Stanley Yelnats was taken when he was wrongly accused of stealing Clyde “Sweet Feet” Livingston’s shoes. There, he met new people and made new friends. Over the course of the novel, Holes, Stanley Yelnats has changed dramatically from introverted and insecure to extroverted and outgoing. At the beginning of the novel, Stanley was someone who had no friends and preferred to be left alone anyways.…

Jail or Camp Green Lake. He picks the camp, but little does he know that the camp is where he will meet his fate, a boy named Hector Zeroni, or Zero who was the actual thief of the shoes and great-great-grandson of Madame Zeroni. The author elaborates on the theme by connecting the history between these characters and using fate as a template to bring these two together. Sachar takes the bond between them and elaborates a clever story through the…

when they flew from the sky and landed on him. Stanley is given the option of either going to jail or a special camp for troubled boys. The camp is called camp Green Lake and is described as a fun summer camp. When Stanley arrives to camp green lake he realizes it’s in the dry dessert in the middle of nowhere and there is no lake. At the camp the boys are required to dig one hole a day, because they are looking for treasure for the Warden. The Warden is a mean woman who is in search of treasure…

of shoes at him he was convicted of stealing the shoes and he went to court and was sentenced to detention camp, at camp green lake. At camp green lake stanley was forced to dig holes they said it was to build character but stanley believes that they are searching for something it is also very hot and humid and it has been very long since it has rained at camp green lake it is described as a giant frying pan. Stanley has made a few friends at camp it is mostly the people who are in his tent.…

Stanley's physical build is attributed because of digging holes but his character growth is not. His sentence to Camp Green Lake has forced him to adapt to the harsh conditions of surviving amongst a hierarchy of tougher boys and leaders with underlying motives. Consequently, he experiences first hand the corruption that exists in our society. His morals and courage he already has allows him to stand up for what is right. Stanley learns what it means to be a true friend and ultimately saving the…

Minnesota, the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", actually boasts about 11,842 bodies of water that have an area over 10 acres. The relative concentration of lakes increases as you travel north with what might typically be considered the beginning of "lake country" starting on an imaginary line drawn through the center of the state stretching from Alexandria to the west to the famous Lake Mille Lacs to the east. If you came to this page looking for information to help you plan a Minnesota fishing getaway…