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Holes Chapter 2 Summary. Back. More. Now we get the real story: turns out Camp Green Lake is "a camp for bad boys." In fact, the boys at the camp have to dig a hole every day, in the hopes that it will make them good boys. Hmm. Stanley Yelnats, for one, chose to go to Camp Green Lake. After all, the alternative was going to jail; plus, he's ...
Walking toward the thumb mountain, Stanley finds part of a boat named Mary Lou and Zero in a hole under it. Chapter 35. Zero looks sick but refuses to return to camp. He shares some jars with a muddy looking liquid he calls sploosh, and Stanley thinks it tastes like peaches. Read a full Summary & Analysis of Chapters 30–35. Chapter 36
Holes Full Book Summary. Stanley Yelnats, a boy who has bad luck due to a curse placed on his great- great-grandfather, is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp, for a crime he did not commit. Stanley and the other boys at the camp are forced to dig large holes in the dirt every day. Stanley eventually realizes that they are ...
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Camp Green Lake is described. It is no longer a lake because over a hundred years ago the lake dried up and the people who lived around it moved away. Now the lake is a dry and barren land where the temperature is usually about ninety- five degrees. The only place where there is shade is between two trees where there is a hammock. The hammock belon...
Boys who have committed crimes are sent to Camp Green Lake. The boys are supposed to dig holes at the camp in the hopes that they will build character and abide by the law. Stanley Yelnats, the protagonist, thinks that Camp Green Lake will be like a summer camp. He has never been to summer camp because his family is poor, so when he is tried for a ...
Stanley rides to Camp Green Lake on a bus with the bus driver and a guard with a gun. He carries a backpack with a toothbrush, toothpaste, and a box of stationery that he plans to use to write to his mother. Stanley pretends that he is going to a camp like the ones rich children go to. Stanley hopes that he will make friends at Camp Green Lake. He ...
The first three chapters set the scene of Camp Green Lake as a menacing place. Even before Stanley arrives at the camp it is clear that life will be hard for him there. The threats at Camp Green Lake are twofold; they come from humans and nature. Humans such as the Warden and the guard on the bus who has a gun are a clear symbol of harsh authority....
After noting some people ... Read More. Part 1, Chapters 10–12. The next morning Stanley is sore and exhausted. He can hardly move, let alone dig. Still he gets a faster start on his... Read More. Part 1, Chapters 13–15. On Stanley's third full day at Camp Green Lake, he decides the third hole is indeed the worst.
ChapterSummaryPart 1, Chapters 1–3Holes begins with this sentence: "There ...Part 1, Chapters 4–5Stanley has a feeling of unreality as he ...Part 1, Chapters 6–7The boys in Stanley's tent want to know ...Part 1, Chapters 8–9In this chapter the omniscient narrator ...Analysis. The narrator notes that the reader is certainly curious why anyone would even go to Camp Green Lake. They explain that Camp Green Lake is a camp for "bad boys," and the people there believe that if bad boys dig holes every day, they'll turn into good boys. Most boys there weren't given a choice about whether or not to go, but Stanley ...
He married in 1985 and his daughter was born two years later. Holes has proven one of Sachar's most famous books; it won the prestigious Newbery Medal in 1999 and was adapted into a Disney movie in 2003. Sachar wrote the screenplay, and he and his family also appear in a cameo. He and his wife live in Texas.
