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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.
Analysis. When Stanley wakes in the morning, he can barely get out of bed because he's so sore. He only gets up because he knows the rising sun is his sworn enemy. As he begins his second hole, he's careful to dump his dirt far away and tries to protect his raw hands with his cap. At one point, Stanley drops his shovel.
Chapter 7. Stanley has a hard time digging his first hole. Mr. Pendanski says he must tell a counselor if he finds anything interesting. Stanley's great-great-grandfather was named Elya. At age fifteen, he asked his friend Madame Zeroni, an old Egyptian woman, for a pig to give Myra’s family and marry her.
Chapters 1-3 Summary. Louis Sachar begins Holes with a description of Camp Green Lake. Nothing is green there, and there is no lake. It used to be the site of the biggest lake in Texas, but now it ...
Chapters 10-11 Summary. Stanley sleeps well his second night, but by the next morning he is sore all over. He does not delay getting up, though. He knows that soon the sun will rise and burn down ...
Chapter 1. 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.
Holes: Part 1, Chapter 7. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in , which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. The next morning, Stanley eats his lukewarm cereal, fills his canteen, and chooses a shovel before the sun comes up. He tries to dig the point of the blade into the ground, but it's baked hard.
