Weekly Blog (12/01/14)

Holes

Book by: Louis Sachar

Blog by: Sonny S.
Prompt: Do you like what you’re reading? Why or why not?

     I do like reading the book Holes because it's like the real world. Many people try to teach kids and such discipline. Discipline is a huge part of life, you can't just do whatever you want without getting punished, you will be getting no where at all. Holes teaches deficient kids discipline. This detention center is like boot camp, except at Camp Green Like. The only thing is, it's not a lake anymore... it's a dried up desert.

     The book Holes brings into a third person view of a boy named, Stanley Yelnats. Stanley comes to this boot camp because of what he call his, "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather." As you can tell what he was accused of doing due to the name Stanley gives him. Stanley is now trapped with all sorts of young men eight hours away from any kind of civilization.

      At Camp Green Lake, you are forced to dig holes that are five feet deep in every direction. These holes must be five feet apart too. This seems a lot harder than it seem due to the fact that the land is now a considered a "very dried up wasteland". Stanley eventually get along with a group of friends, trying to work together to get out of their sentence, so they can finally leave Camp Green Lake.