HOLES The setting took place at Camp Green Lake, during the present time and summer season. ... As punishment, the boys must each dig a hole a day, five feet deep and five feet across. ... The main characters in this story are Stanley, Hector, Ms. ... When Stanley realizes that the boys may not just be digging to build character, he realizes that in fact that Ms. ... I thought the title, holes, fits the book really well because the whole story is mainly about boys digging holes. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He had to dig five feet deep and wide holes everyday. ... The main characters in the novel were Stanley Yelnats, Zero, Warden, Elya Yelnats, Kate Barlow, Mr. ... The opposing characters out of them were the Warden, Mr. ... The Warden was the main opposing character in the novel with her own two sidekicks Mr. ... Also he then would not have to deal with all that trouble of digging holes and running away with Zero. ...

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Holes. ... Some of the main characters in this novel are Stanley Yelnats, Zero, X-Ray, Squid, Warden, Kate Barlow, Sam, Elya Yelnats, and Madame Zeroni. ... While he is there the boys and him are forced to dig large holes in the dirt everyday. ... Holes has lots of exciting parts, and the characters are even interesting and are all original. ...

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Holes Holes by Louis Sachar's is a cool book. ... The hole must be exactly five feet in diameter, the distance from the tip of his shovel to the top of the wooden handle. Each boy is forced to dig until his hole is completed, no matter how long it takes. ... According to the warden the digging "builds character" but she has something else in mind. ... A curse was set on Stanley's hole family because the ancestor disobeyed Zero's ancestor. ...

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At this camp, he is ordered to dig a hole 4' by 4' in a hard rough gully each day. ... Sachar creates the character Zero to epitomize all attributes possessed by detainees at the detention camp: he is illiterate, speaks using contractions like "ain't- and "don't,"" and has a history of crime. ... The combination of influential characters, as well as the intricately designed conflicts which govern the story line, prompt Stanley's immeasurable growth. ... Holes is a novel in which parallel internal and external conflicts arise. ... I would highly encourage any reader wi...

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The book I read was Holes. This book was written by Louis Sachar. This novel was a novel written for kids to understand cause and effect. It was also written to show someone being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Throughout the story there is a feeling of remorse for Stanley. The reader feels b...

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I chose essay topic number three in comparing Number the Stars main character Annemarie Johansen and Holes main character Stanley Yelnat's and taking a look at how both helped others and made a difference in some way. ... In Holes, Stanley Yelnat's is not only a proposed lead character but also a recognized hero. ... Stanley makes a vast difference in the lives of the boys by being able to free them from hole digging hell. ... These two lead characters share several similar traits. ... Holes and Number the Stars are books that you could easily pick out the main character and see how ...

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"Holes" is a book about a boy named Stanley Yelnats. ... In this camp, for "bad boys" as the book describes it, the attendees dig holes. To be more descriptive, they dig 5" by 5" holes, one each day. ... The main character of this story is, clearly, Stanley Yelnats, a described "overweight" boy whose family has an interesting history of bad luck. ... Sir catches Zero helping Stanley dig his hole, becomes furious, and threatens Zero. ...

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There are several characters that are involved is these acts. ... The people in the black hole group are one of the main groups in the film. ... The roommate of another character who changed rooms once because he couldn't stand living with an African American. A senior and leader of the black hole spent his last year partying in the dorm. ... The people from the "black hole" group seem to be always miss treated. ...

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The film first title sequence starts with the name of company production and then follows the name of main character Daniel Craig. ... This is low angle shot where it is trying to explain the audience about the problem the character might be in. ... As James bond was going further down to shrink hole, it background was in low key with the wide angle shot. It also welcome the audience into the film. 5) Continuing the scene as James Bond was going further down the shrink hole the shot changed to wide shot to high angle and bird's view, where the focus was now the shrink hole. ... One th...

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She was a fictitious character created to represent and encourage women to take over factory jobs of men who went off to war. ... Although Rosie was depicted very differently from what women were expected to look like during the forty's, she still managed to remain a feminine character. ... "Rose Bonavita Hickey drilled 900 holes and placed 3,300 rivets in an airplane tail end within six hours at the former General Motors Eastern Aircraft Division in North Tarrytown. ...

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Just as in real life, the tone in books is influenced by the settings and the characters that are there. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the tone of the story is affected by the metaphors and imagery surrounding the settings and the characters. ... The tone of the story can also be affected by the words describing a certain character. ... Being his eyes are colorless and don't reflect like, just like a black-hole. A black hole is cold, taking and never giving. ...

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In the story, a bananafish is a fish that swims into a hole in the ocean and eats bananas. ... He is the bananafish who cannot escape the hole and achieve the spiritualism and childlike characteristics that he desires. ... Salinger's use of the image of a Bananafish has more complexity than first thought by a reader to Seymour's character, situation, and ending....

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The main character is a middle-aged woman, who just got divorced from her husband, and their two boys just moved out with the husband, they left her with their dog, so now she is only living with her German shepherd Ollie. ... The narrator is a limited narrator, because the narrator knows all about the main character, even the main character says that nobody nose anything about what she is doing, but when it is a third person narrator and not a first person narrator and when it is a limited narrator, we never gets in to the main characters head, we do not hear about her thoughts and feelings,...

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Firstly, it turns the setting into a dark hole of blankness, everything looks drab and dull. ... The prisoners are in comparison to ants, as the prison overlooks them sucking them into a damp and dark hole. ... These shadows cover the majority of characters throughout the film and are there to represent the emotions the prison plays on these characters. ... A good portion of the movie occurs in the dark, the prison itself represents a drab and dark hole that sucks in the souls of the prisoners forming them to rely on its walls to stay alive. Lights out at the prison is an extremely dark time w...

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Similarly, the movie presents a Christ-like character within a system that discourages leadership among inmates. ... Perhaps the best depiction of the boss's power is seen in the hole digging sequence where one boss tells Luke to dig a large, coffin-shaped hole, while the second boss tells Luke to get the dirt removed from the hole (ditch) out of his yard back into the hole. ... Emotional singing of the inmates heightens the scene's significance while Luke struggles to dig, fill, and again re-dig the hole. ... Luke labors through two days of hell, ultimately falling into the hole ...

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The movie is acted in the most beautiful way, and goes through the life span of two or three characters, greatly bringing the viewers into it. The prisoner eventually is able to dig a hole using a small hammer, through the stone walls of the prison, and escaping through the hole he had been working on for a decade. ... Everyone thought it would be impossible to dig a hole with a small hammer in the wall, and if it was possible, it would take the guy a decade. ... After a decade, the prisoner is able to dig a hole with a width of exactly his side, with the tunnel ending in the sewers. ...

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When the actors say "I kiss the walls hole" or "Cursed be thy stones" they literally mean it, while our mind searches for hidden meanings. ... Another thing that makes the comedy humorous is the way Shakespeare shows stupidity among the characters. ... Mispronunciations like perfet instead of perfect and bad punctuation like "We do not come, as minding to content you, our true intent is." makes the characters sound silly and the play rather funny. ... He meant it as a joke, but Bottom without knowing where the proper parameters of the stage are, steps out of character and addresses The...

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In "The Things They Carried" by Tim O"Brien, the most important character is a Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. ... One of these times he is crawling in a fox hole where he begins to think about Martha, and he is supposed to be worry about finding one of the soldiers and what was happening to them. While he was down in the hole, Ted Lavender was shot in the back of the head coming back from using the bathroom. ...

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In the "Secret Lion- and "A&P- the authors use life lessons that each character learns in a difficult and harsh way. They (the authors) are able to convey these messages to readers by defining character traits, motivations and character changes. In the end, each character gains a sense of self-respect and a new awareness for life. ... His coke holder is just a hole in the ground. ... In the story "A&P- Sammy, the main character, is observant, an outcast, and is not popular. ...

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"His jaw was in his throat, his upper lip and teeth were gone, his one eye was shut, his other eye was a star-shaped hole the skin at his left cheek was peeled back in three ragged strips, his right cheek was smooth and hairless, there was a butterfly on his chin, his neck was open to the spinal cord and the blood there was thick and shiny and it was this wound that had killed him." (124) O"Brien can't seem to get his mind off the grotesque image of the young man. "The star-shaped hole was red and yellow. ... We must also note the fact that this character is one of the only Vietnam...

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Some areas where the low angles were used were from the perspective of someone who was in the hole or about to be beaten, for example when Andy was in the hole, or about to be raped by the sisters. ... The dialogue was used in "The Shawshank Redemption" to paint a very detailed and multi-faceted picture of the different characters, The screws and the warden shouted a lot and used a lot of obscenities, which helped, in my opinion, to show utmost power, corruption and hate towards the inmates. ... I felt that this helped to portray the innocence and intelligence of his character. ... A much mo...

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As their journey continues, there are a tremendous number of situations where characters give the protagonists something to eat as well as situations where we meet characters that attempt to eat the protagonists. ... Many of the characters are entirely consumed by the idea of wealth and gold. ... Originally, Bilbo thought that the rigors of heroism would force him to abandon the contentment of his simple life in his hobbit hole. ... These flaws, like greed, control many of the characters, thus, they are no longer considered leaders. ... Where early in the story, the thought of a meal would onl...

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The book Twins" by Christine Thorburn is a novel about two girls, who have very different characters. ... About the main characters: Emma Ferguson was 15 years old. ... Kristy wore mini skirts, jeans with holes and a punk hair style. ...

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For example, at the beginning of Book One: Fear, Richard Wright states, "The rat scuttled across the floor and stopped again at the box and searched quickly for the hole; then it reared once more and bared long yellow fangs, piping shrilly, belly quivering". ... If you were to add the symbolism of the fear, it would state, "The rat scuttled across the floor and stopped again at the box and searched quickly for the hole; then it reared once more and bared long fear fangs, piping shrilly, belly quivering". ... In this scene, Bigger Thomas and his partner that is trying to help him flee from th...

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• Grade Level: High School