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. ... At Camp Green Lake it is believed that if you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy. ... While digging a hole one day Stanley finds a lipstick which has the initial KB written on it. ... I thought the title, holes, fits the book really well because the whole story is mainly about boys digging holes. ...

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Just as they are setting up to tee off on the first hole Jim suggests that to make it really interesting they play by the gotcha rules. ... Not to be outdone Bill pulls a leftover firecracker out of his golf bag and sets it off just as Jim is putting the second hole which causes him to three putt the hole. No one uses their gotcha on the third hole but bill decides to use his last one on the fourth hole to counter a very good tee shot. Jim slices his second shot into the rough and going into the fifth hole their scores are even up. ... Bill asks why Jim didn't use his second gotcha and Ji...

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Feeling trapped they run for cover and end up finding a hole surrounded by large clumps of grass. They both jump into the cramped spider hole and spend the night while the N. ... The next morn, the troops begin to awake and herd off, however one man is left to jump into 'his' spider hole. When he does so Perry and Peewee put up a struggle and then shoot him at point blank in the hole. More scared then they've ever been before they climb out of the hole and run to the landing pad to escape towards base. ...

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Unable to bear this, "the doctors had bored a hole in his head, /Cut out part of his brain, and shot electricity/ through the rest" (Etheridge 891). The doctors had not cut off Hard Rock's legs to restrict his movement--his movement was already restricted in "the violent space," "the Hole"--; instead, they cut out his brain to restrict his free thinking. ... /His eyes empty like knot holes in a fence" (Etheridge 892). ...

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It begins "And then a Plank in Reason, broke,"" which is the board holding the coffin above the hole breaking away. ... During the lines "And I dropped down, and down-- And hit a World, at every plunge, And Finished knowing "then "- the speaker is dropping down into the hole hitting the sides or "World- on the way down. The coffin hits the bottom of the hole jolting the dreamer awake and she realizes that she was dreaming. ...

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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. ...

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Puerto Rico In august 1, 1988, my life was affected in a great way. It was my first time on a commercial airliner going first class to Puerto Rico; the first people I met were my grand parents. They took care of me while I was there. As my grand parent; and I made our way to the car, all the v...

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You turn on your television and find out they have no cable, you go to the kitchen to get a drink and realize the water comes from a well underneath your house, or you go to the washroom and it's full because it isn't connected to any sewers and the only thing there is a two meter deep hole. ... I had this cousin who lived on a farm and every time I went to visit him in the summer; he would be digging a hole somewhere on the ten acre land. "Steve, why are you digging a hole, isn't there anything else to do?" ...

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The three of us walked along the rocky bank until we came upon the fishing hole. ... We quickly decided our fishing hole was not such a great spot after all and left it to find my brother down by the riverside. ... We told him about the great fishing hole full of snakes and that we should probably return home before the snakes come back. ...

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So he decided to take some of the roots, "so he dug a hole among the roots of this great sky tree, and he bared some of its roots. But the floor was not very thick, and he broke a hole through it" (Iroquois 25). Filled with curiosity, the wife looked into the hole and fell out of the Sky-World and their gods didn't try to save her since she and her husband had disobeyed. ...

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This is the beginning of her voids, gaps and holes. ... The only thing, Daisy thinks of is the voids and holes in her life. ... Without her mother's wedding band, Daisy will always feel voids and holes in her life. ... Her voids, gaps and holes are much stronger now because she now suffers from memory lost. ... At birth just like in death Daisy Goodwill Flett has voids, gaps and holes. ...

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While retreating Paul jumps and hides in a hole made by a bomb. A French soldier runs into the hole and Paul quickly kills him. ... It takes the man a couple of hours to die and Paul is still unable to leave the shell hole. ...

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I pick up the pant legs thinking there the top and start throwing them on over my head, everything is going fine the arm holes seem a little big but that's ok cause I"m really out of it, then I go to stick my head through the head hole and its not there I"m so frustrated I start crying because something that has always been so simple while awake had become the most complicated thing for me to comprehend half asleep. ...

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Near the middle of the frozen pond there was a fairly big hole in the ice that revealed the water underneath. What terrified Henry even more was the fact that his son's hockey stick was about two feet away from the hole in the ice. ...

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The camera would really zoom in so you could just see his hand and the guitars sound holes covered by strings. ... The camera would really zoom in so you could just see his hand and the guitars sound holes covered by strings. ...

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The sub was equipped with sixteen inch thick steel walls, a viewing hole of the same thickness, but three feet wide, and apart from the controls, a state-of-the-art sonar device. ... A red mist rose up in front of the viewing hole, but was quickly dispersed by an immense great white shark bearing a helpless dolphin in its serrated fangs. ...

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In The Red Convertible, by Louise Erdrich, the conflict is the relationship between Lyman, the narrator and Henry, his brother. Before Henry went off to war, the brothers were close but when he returned, he had changed, and Lyman was unable to recapture that old relationship. The story begins with ...

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Previously, Holden becomes submerged into the his childhood experiences with Phoebe and recalls his trips to the natural history museum; while there he remembered "passing" through the exhibits in the museum, Holden notices a display in which an Eskimo is "sitting over a hole in this icy lake, and he [the Eskimo] is fishing through it." ...

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There were a lot of changes in Perry and Peewee's personalities and outlook on life throughout the book. A year in Vietnam really changed them and how they saw the war. In the beginning of the book they joined the army because they wanted to get out of where they lived, or just wanted to get trea...

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One hundred years later, Brennan Cole discovers a skull with a hole through its forehead in a canyon where he's been camping and becomes obsessed by the need to find out the who, what, and why of the skull. ...

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After six hole years of isolated experiments on making the dead be reborn he"d done it and then the first two found out and rejected it with out seeing it, this is what made Frankenstein change his mind but it was too late it had come alive and so it was left to grow up by its self. ...

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How I Met My Husband According to Edie's view in the story "How I Met My Husband" by Alice Munro I looked at the view point of the narrator. In this story the narrator was Edie herself. She tells the story through insights of her feelings according to the good and bad things that happen to he...

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The holes in the picture of the fence in my collage show that although there were gaps in the wall separating these two families allowing both Romeo and Juliet to reach one another, as seen in the scene when they met, there was still a strong barrier between them. ...

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It's still stuck, in one side of my brain, the memory of that terrible night, when I found my horse, Pony, lying dead with many holes of bullets inside her. ... If I moved from the my hiding place, which was the shell- hole, they would come after me and also make me like one of themselves. ...

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Response to Kate Chopin's "Ripe Figs" Kate Chopin's "Ripe Figs," leaves my mind searching for more. I do not feel satisfied after reading and re-reading this story. A little girl name Babette lives with her godmother Maman Nainaine. Kate Chopin, I believe, is trying to depict the differences betwe...

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