Holes by Louis Sachar was a very interesting book! Stanley Ylenats, the main character, is caught up in bad luck from his ancient family curse, by being at the wrong place at the wrong time. He is over weight and never ever sticks up for him self when the class bully picks on him. Even though Stanley is large for his age he is too scared to stick up for him self.
He is in the wrong place at the wrong time when a stolen pair of shoes is dropped over the bridge into his hands. Later Stan realizes that they are Clyde livingstons shoes, one of the most famous basketball players ever. Stanley is charged of robberry and is unfairly sentenced to months at detention camp, at Camp Green Lake.
At Camp Green Lake there really is no lake. It dried up years before that. Everyday he is forced forced to dig a hole, five feet in diameter and about five feet down(length from tip of shovel totop of wooden handle) in the rock hard desert soil. Each boy is forced to keep diging his hole till he is completley finished no matter how long it takes him.
Stanley soon begins wondering why they must dig these holes and why the warden cares so much if he finds anything special. According to the warrden, the diigin helps the kides by building character, but we all know she has something else in mind.
At the camp irony starts to set in. When stanley is there he meets a guy named "zero" they guy who commited the crime of stealing the shoes. Very fourtanate to Stanley because it has allowd to break his familly curse that was bringing him bad luck.
Stanley and zero's ancestors had met their over one hundred years ago at the lake. A cure was set on Stanleys whole family because there ancesrors disobeyed zero's ancestors. Holes by Louis Sachar was a very interesting book! Stanley Ylenats, the main character, is caught up in bad luck from his ancient family curse, by being at the wrong place at the wrong time. He is over weight and never ever sticks up for him self when the class bully picks on him.
