Holes

                         Louis Sachar: Holes
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                         Louis Sachar: Holes

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Setting
The plot of Holes unfolds within multiple settings. 

These settings are distant in both space and time.

place:                                                                time: 
Camp Green Lake                                          present
Historic Latvia                                                5 generations back
Historic Green Lake                                      about a century ago
                      
                     

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Slide 3 - Link

Overview
Author        Louis Sachar                                                                                         Year Published: 1998
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Mystery

Perspective and Narrator
Holes has a third-person omniscient narrator. The narrator reveals a great deal about the world of the story, including many details unknown to the characters.

Tense: Holes uses the past tense.







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About the Title
Holes takes place in a juvenile detention camp where convicts are forced to dig deep holes in a hot, dry lake bed every day.

 Throughout the story, holes are metaphorically associated with being stuck in a bad situation.

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Timeline and Flashbacks
The timeline: unusual - many story events take place long before the events of the novel's opening when Stanley Yelnats IV arrives at Camp Green Lake.
 
The plot:  begins generations earlier in the northern European country of Latvia, --> the seeds of a curse are planted. 
When the novel begins four generations later, the main character, Stanley Yelnats IV, is still living under that curse.

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palindrome
noon             racecar          level                   civic                 mom



So, what is a palindrome?
And why is this question asked?

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What is Camp Green Lake like?

Slide 8 - Open question

3.What’s the worst thing to be bitten by at Green Lake Camp?

Slide 9 - Open question

How did Stanley end up with Clyde Livingston’s sneakers?

Slide 10 - Open question

Why does Kate Barlow kiss her victims before she kills them?

Slide 11 - Open question

What did Stanley's father finally invent?

Slide 12 - Open question

Slide 13 - Video