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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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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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 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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Holes Essay Novels are extremely important part in people’s life. They teach us valuable lessons and provide an escape from the real world. Louis Sachar’s novel Holes‚ allows teenagers to feel for the characters and also allows them to relate to what character is going through. In the novel Holes‚ there are many characters that 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
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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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Visual Film & Television Techniques Visual Techniques Film is the idea of individual motion pictures‚ the field of film as an art form‚ and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording photographic images with cameras‚ or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects. (Film‚ n.d.) To create a film you need cameras‚ projectors‚ film stock‚ and lenses. The first films were created by the use of a cranked camera. They were shot on a single reel
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Cinematic Techniques in Film Narrative How do movies carry us from scene to scene? The answer is in the screenplay as well as the cinematic techniques used in the film. Scriptwriters will start their script with a series of meaningful cinematic techniques. Cinematic techniques such as the act structure‚ choice of shot‚ scene transition‚ and camera movement‚ can greatly influence the structure and meaning of a film. These techniques include the hook‚ establishing shot‚ montage‚ leitmotif‚ foreshadowing
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The Power of One. John G. Avildsen uses many different techniques in the film _The Power of One._ For example the structure‚ the different camera angles‚ sound and symbolism are key techniques used throughout the film. The film is split into three main parts: out in Africa and the boarding school when PK is younger‚ the jail where PK is a little older and the last part where PK is around about eighteen. This structure shows exactly how PK grows up and the relationships he forms with others around
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of the movie‚ two innocent people get killed and the police chief‚ Brody‚ suspects it is a shark that has attacked them. Jaws became a major must see for years to come. Jaws uses many different film techniques to keep the audience suspenseful‚ make the overall movie better. At the beginning of the film the music that plays in the back ground is soft and quiet. This makes the audience feel suspicious that something is going to happen‚ as the shark swiftly moves through the weeds in the murky water
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