Author: Louis Sachar
Holes has a descriptive and fascinating plot, in which it explains the whole story in a vast way with plenty of cliff hangers. The plot goes that the main character (Stanley Yelnats) is in a summer camp for juveniles convicted of crimes, even though he was innocent. Stanley was given a decision to either go to jail for the rest of his sentence, or to attend Camp Green Lake. Camp Green Lake had once been the largest lake in Texas, but now was just a scorching desert wasteland. Stanley blamed his no-good-rotten-dirty-pig-stealing-great-great grandfather for cursing the family ancestry, and for bringing misfortune at every corner. At the camp, the warden made the boys and Stanley dig 5 foot deep and 5 foot wide holes, saying that it 'built character'. On the way, Stanley realises that they aren't digging to build character, but the warden is trying to find something special hidden in the desert. This book has a wonderful setting and plot to it, not just the story outline, but the way the author describes the scenery makes the reader believe that they're in the story. The beginning and the end sections link back together, because apart from figuring out what happened, it actually goes back to Stanley's past generations and links the two stories together, to form the missing piece. The title is very effective yet simple. By stating a single word, it later reveals the meaning quite early in the book, but also digs for the truth.
Thanks :)
~John
Thanks :)
~John
