Essay Writing

Holes Essay

              Holes is a novel written by Luis Sachar. It´s about Stanley yelnats, a boy who often teased at school because he´s overweight. Stanley has extremely low confidence. And his dad was an inventor but his invention wasn´t even work at all, and when stanley is wrongly accused of stealing a pair sneakers, he is sent to a juvenile detention centre called Camp Green Lake. During his stay there, a whole new world opens up to him involving new friends, treasure and digging lots of holes. A juvenile detention centre can be compared to prison, but the difference is that it´s for minors that breaks the law. That person is held there for a period of time, depending on how serious the crime was and if he/she is considered out in the community. When stanley was sent to Camp green lake I think he got some kind of confident boost because he got to know many friends, and the most important part. He became accepted, and i think that really made him feel like he was a part of something special and that he finally felt like he belonged somewhere, knowing that he has got friends around him going through the same thing might have kept him from going completely mad at a tough place like Camp Green Lake, where digging holes out in the hot sun is supposedly  ¨Character Building¨. Really, if you think about it stanley was never even a bad boy, so why should he be punished for a crime he did not commit? .

However, later in the book i find out that the warden is not making boys dig holes for discipline, she´s looking for a treasure because she is a decedent of trout and Linda Walker, the people who were once the owner of Green Lake. This mean that the whole idea behind digging hole per day is all based on a lie.