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    thought. Zero was nobody.” (Sachar 81) If Stanley really valued Zero he wouldn’t think of him as a nobody. Stanley reveals Zero isn’t a priority as he thinks to himself‚ “After digging all day‚ he didn’t have the strength to try to teach Zero to read and write. He needed to

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    The Benefit of Friendship

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    After reading Holes I found that it was a very inspiring folk tale with many mysteries that tied together in the end. I valued the themes that Sachar wrote about because they are the values that many elementary students have. Students always want to fit in with everybody else‚ have nicknames for their best friends‚ and share their life stories without being judged. These are the main values that I found among the friendships at Camp Green Lake. The first value of fitting in with everyone else

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    Holes by Louis Sachar Twist of fate play major roles in the lives of the main characters in Holes. In “Holes”‚ the whole story is based around Stanley’s situation in the present and it’s connection to the past. Stanley’s bad luck is the result of his “ No good rotten-pig- stealing-great-great-grandfather‚” who failed to fulfill his promise of carrying Madame Zeroni up the mountain where the stream runs uphill. His situation at Camp Green Lake was connected to the history of ‘Kissin’

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    Holes Film Narrative

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    The film I chose for to study is the 2003-Andrew Davis directed-motion picture: Holes. It is based off the 1998 book written by Louis Sachar. The film tells parallel stories from two different time periods. That is the theme of its’ narrative. A narrative is a story‚ and how that story is told. Usually in movies‚ the narrative has a series of events that are connected in some way that all pull the story together. Holes uses connecting stories in multiple ways. It connects characters and places

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    literary techniques

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    by putting more excitement in to the writing. Putting more dynamics in writing create more excitement. Without excitement‚ the writing will be monotonous. "He was standing in the middle of a lizard nest. He felt the scream explode inside of him" (Sachar). Stanley was standing in a pit full of yellow spotted lizards that can kill him in a single bite. This connects to what I’m saying of more excitement in writings. That is why literary techniques create dynamics by adding more excitement.

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    Holes

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    HOLES In the beginning of the novel Holes‚ by Louis Sachar‚ Stanley Yelnats is convicted of stealing a pair of sneakers that were supposed to be auctioned to supply a orphanage with money. He didn’t deliberately steal the sneakers they hit him in the head after Hector Zeroni stole them and saw the police so he threw them over the bridge. Later in the novel Stanley meets Hector and tells him why he is there and Hector describes what they look like. Stanley was convicted due to lack of evidence and

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    The Awesomest Essay Ever

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    Good morning year 8. Today I am going to talk to you about the novel holes. When people hear of a book called “Holes"‚ they may think of some boring story of digging a hole. However this book is anything but a boring story. In the novel Holes‚ by Louis Sachar‚ it tells the story of a young teenage aged boy named Stanley Yelnats who is wrongly accused of stealing Clyde Livingston’s shoes and sent to a juvenile correctional camp. The camp is called Camp Green Lake. He is sent to camp to supposedly build

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    Holes Essay- Fate v/s Free Will Redemption? Destiny? "Holes" (by Louis Sachar) is an engrossing novel that revolves around these. In fact‚ everything‚ for whatever the reason might be‚ seems to line up‚ linking many generations and histories together through "Stanley Yelnats IV"‚ the protagonist. Nevertheless‚ he doesn’t know about it! Nor does he know that his endeavors have actually reformed him into a better person. This essay will now explore and examine how Stanley‚ unaware of what he was actually

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    Holes Essay Challenges

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    There 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

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    unpredictable to be controlled. And man is far from being close to be able to destroy it‚ and therefore having control of it. These two authors have showed many ways how they used man vs nature in there writing. Louis Sachar and William Golding‚ both have awards for their book they have written. Louis Sachar was born March 20‚ 1954 in East Meadow‚ New York. He is famous for writing the book

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