Holes

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                         Louis Sachar: Holes

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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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.

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.

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.

palindrome

noon             racecar          level                   civic                 mom

So, what is a palindrome?

And why is this question asked?

What is Camp Green Lake like?

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

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

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

What did Stanley's father finally invent?