Holes written by Louis sachar
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. That was what
some people thought.
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse
that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather
and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly
sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build
character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide
and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful
lot of holes.
Stanley
Yelnats was given a choice. The judge said, “You may go to jail, or you may go
to Camp Green Lake.” Stanley was from a poor family. He had never been to camp
before.
When Stanley Yelnats is sent to Camp Green Lake
Juvenile Correctional Facility for a crime he did not commit, life becomes much
more of a challenge. First of all he has to dig a hole (as deep as a man) a day
in the baking Texas heat, looking for who knows what. Then he has to avoid
cruel Mr. Sir and the menacing warden. Will Stanley survive in this hostile
environment? Holes is an award-winning and international bestseller. In this novel Louis Sachar has leant his
knowledge and expertise of roughing it out in the Texan desert in Stanley
Yelnats’ Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake. Imagine your misfortune if, like
Stanley Yelnats, you found yourself the victim of a miscarriage of justice and
interned in a juvenile correctional facility.
NAME:
Louis sachar
OCCUPATION:
Writer
BIRTH
DATE: March 20, 1954
DEATH
DATE: July 18, 1817
PLACE
OF BIRTH: East Meadow, N.Y. United States
PLACE
OF DEATH:
FULL
NAME: Louis sachar
Louis Sachar; award winner, lives in
Austin, Texas, where he writes and plays quite a lot of bridge.
Sachar pulls together this complicated
story with unusual characters, dark humor, inventive plotting, and some
Dickensian coincidences. The harshness of the situation is mitigated by the
multifaceted mystery and by the strangely lighthearted way the author tells the
story. At the end the author deliberately leaves a few holes in the plot for
the reader to fill in. Sachar has a bizarre imagination, and in this vivid,
many-layered book he puts it to its most compelling use yet.
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