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    significance of earnest and genuine friendship in times of life’s trials and tribulations. This is exemplified when an averse and apprehensive Stanley and a despondent and barely conversant Zero develop a friendship. Founded on mutual solicitous understanding this friendship carries them through ominous and precarious times. Madame Zeroni and Elya Yelnats are two characters further used to demonstrate the ineffable importance of friendship in times of adversities. Their affiliation was based on virtuous

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    Book Review – Holes by Louis Sachar Stanley Yelnats is sent to Camp Green Lake because of a crime he actually did not commit. At the camp‚ bad boys are forced to dig a big hole every day to build character. Stanley makes friends with a quiet guy and together they disclose the secret of Camp Green Lake. But this is not the only story oft he book‚ you also learn about the history of Green Lake. Camp Green Lake is a dry flat wasteland in Texas‚ there are not many trees or stones and most of

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    written by Louis Sachar we meet the main protagonist named Stanley Yelnats. Who is in a juvenile detention centre called Camp Green Lake “ a camp for bad boys”. From which Stanley goes on a self-discovering journey. From becoming a “nobody” to a “somebody”. But how did Stanley just change his character? When Stanley first arrived in Camp Green Lake he was a “nobody” and was not like the other boys there. They were all “bad boys”. But Stanley was a different sort of boy. He was completely the opposite

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    name of Stanley Yelnats. Stanley is convicted of a crime that he was not the culprit of and‚ as a result‚ he is sent to Camp Green Lake. This camp is a juvenile detention camp; the children there are required to dig holes every day as their punishment. While at Camp Green LakeStanley makes friends with a boy named Zero. These two become good friends and‚ one day‚ Zero runs away from the camp. Stanley decides that he should run away to in an effort to save Zero from certain death. When Stanley finds

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    main character‚ Stanley III‚ steals a water truck to help his friend‚ Zero‚ but fails. Stanley Yelnats the third has a family who is cursed because of the original Stanley Yelnats back in the old days. Stanley Yelnats the third was sent to Camp Green Lake after he was accused of stealing a famous baseball player’s shoes from a homeless shelter. Stanley continued to dig holes at Camp Green Lake until he came across a mysterious lipstick tube‚ which led to new discoveries. Stanley is a boy who lacked

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    whether you believe or not” (Sachar 41). The book I read was Holes by Louis Sachar. This book is about a boy‚ named Stanley Yelnats‚ who is ‘cursed’ with bad luck. The ‘curse’ started with Stanley’s no-good pig stealing great great grandfather. During the early parts of the story‚ Stanley is arrested and sent to Camp Green Lake where boys go to ‘build character’. While at Camp Green Lake‚ the boy had to dig five foot by five-foot holes. They said this was to ‘build character’; however it was not. This

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    3 introduction: the novel ’Holes’ by Louis Sachar‚ communicates the strong character of stanley yelnats by using the language technique of dialogue to show how hes changes from being low self estemed and degraded‚ to a hero who is recognised in society. when stanley yelnats is framed for a crime he did not commit and is sent to camp green lake‚ a camp where boys dig holes all day as punishment‚ he discovers something hed never none about before‚ something hed actualli been waiting for but

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    Sacrificial Friendship In the book holes‚ written by Louis Sachar‚ Stanley Yelnats the main character is a poor‚ friendless‚ over weighted boy who is constantly bullied at school. He is arrest one day for a crime that did not commit. Stanley is therefore condemned to jail or to be sent to a place called Camp Green Lake for eighteen months as he is unable to prove his innocence. Stanley chooses Camp Green Lake. But upon arriving in the campStanley discovers that it is actually a barren and desolate wasteland

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    Stanley Yelnats‚ the main character of Louis Sachar’s ‘Holes’ was fat‚ friendless and frightened at the beginning of the novel‚ but by the end he has changed dramatically. The plot of the novel revolves around Stanley being sent to Camp Green Lake‚ the setting of the story‚ for a crime that he didn’t commit. Here‚ Stanley learns the true value of friendship‚ kindness and the role of fate in his life. Stanley finds himself in some hairy situations‚ but with the help of his good mate Zero‚ he works

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    situation at Camp Green Lake was connected to the history of ‘Kissin’ Kate Barlow‚ a schoolteacher turned bandit who robbed his great-grandfather and buried her treasure somewhere on the lake. The boys are forced to dig holes because of this and the person overseeing them is the Warden‚ who is the granddaughter of Mr. Charles Walker who was‚ in a way‚ responsible for Kate Barlow’s death. Stanley meeting Zero‚ Zero turning out to be Madame Zeroni’s great-great-great-grandson and Stanley helping to carry

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