So about a month or two, Ibu Meghan asked
us to read a book called Holes and it was by Louis Sachar. This book also had a
film around 2001 and it is also called Holes. This book is all about a guy
named Stanley Yelnats who went to a camp because he did something wrong and
that in this book he tells you everything he did.
So it all started out as a boy named
Stanley Yelnats was on a bus by himself and he is going to a camp called Camp
Green Lake but there is no more lake in there. There were once around 110 years
ago. This camp is for naughty boys. This camp makes the bad boys to dig ten to
hundreds of holes in the hot sun because it makes them to good boys. He had no
choice but to go there because he was given two choices by the judge to either
go to jail or to this camp.
He was sent to court because he did
something wrong. He stole a pair of shoes from Clyde Livingston. He thinks that
he didn’t do it because it had been thrown and that he said that he was innocent.
He thinks it is because of his no good dirty rotten pig stealing great-great
grandfather. It is a family joke where everything that went wrong to his family
was because of his great-great grandfather’s curse. It was because long ago he
stole a pig from a one legged Gipsy named Madame Zeroni. It was because he
wanted to marry a lady.
Stanley arrived in the camp. He then was assigned
to his group tent which is Group D. He met his counselor, Mr Pendanski. He was
a nice looking guy. He told him that there is Mr. Sir who is the guard and the
Warden. The only rule is; don’t upset the Warden. Then Mr. Pendanski showed
Stanley his group friends. There were a total of 6 boys, Alan, Rex, Jose,
Theodore, Ricky and Zero. They all had nicknames which are Squid, X-Ray,
Magnet, Armpit and Zigzag. Zero’s nickname is Zero because everyone didn’t really
know his real name but was later revealed to be a relative of Madame Zeroni.
Stanley was also later given his own nickname, Caveman.
So Stanley was told that he must dig a 5
feet tall and 5 feet wide hole each day and that if he finishes he gets the day
off. It was his first day at the job; he thought that it was the hardest thing
to do because it was his first hole. Everyone else says that the first hole is
the hardest but not as hard as the second one. What make things harder are the
dry land and the hotness of the sun.
Green Lake wasn’t always a hot place. 110
years ago there were people living on the sides of the river. There was a girl
named Katherine who lived in the Town of Green Lake. She was famous for her
spiced peaches. She could make the most delicious peaches and that also she was
a beautiful lady and every man was interested in her. She was also a teacher in
a school in the town. There was a man in his school, Trout Walker, whom is the
richest man in the town all because of his father. He only wanted to go to this
school so that he could meet Katherine. He always asks her if she wants to date
her but she didn’t want to.
Also in that town lived a Negro man, Sam.
He is an onion seller and that he has a donkey/mule, Mary Lou. One day
Katherine met Sam and that he knew he could help her with fixing the school
because the school was badly damaged including the roof and doors. He agreed of
helping and that he will get her famous spiced peaches. Each day of working,
Katherine and Sam became in love with each other. They both would talk to each
other and had a good time. Until Sam couldn’t fix anything else and that they
could not talk again. After days of not meeting him, Katherine went to see Sam.
They were both glad because they could see each other again. It was raining
too. Suddenly Sam kissed Katherine in the rain because they thought no-one
would see them but someone did. Quickly rumors spread about this and that
everyone in the town knew.
On a school day no-one came to the school
possibly because of the kissing incident. Then suddenly, Trout Walker came in
the school with many others. They wrecked her school and wreck her clothes.
Trout Walker called her the Devil Woman because of the incident. Long ago it
was forbidden for a Negro to kiss a white girl. So Kat ran outside to find Sam and
told him that they are going to kill him so they went on the boat to the lake.
Mary Lou was shot dead by them and that Sam was also shot on the boat.
Katherine then was saved by her wishes because the Negro was the bad one. So
after that she had vengeance on everyone and became Kissin Kate Barlow, the
most feared lady.
That was 110 years ago.
Now to the present time.
So Stanley made a deal with Zero that Zero
would do some of his work and that Stanley will teach him how to read. It was
all going good for the past days until the other boys starts teasing and
complained about Zero doing Stanley’s hole. Suddenly things started to get
nasty when Zigzag went to Stanley and said that he will give him a cookie if he
does his hole. It was meant to be a joke but because Stanley kept denying,
Zigzag beat Stanley but suddenly Zero chocked Zigzag from the back. Then Mr.
Pendanski and Mr. Sir saw what happened including the Warden. They break up the fight. Mr. Pendanski teased
Zero of that Zero is stupid. Because he was so mad, Zero swung Mr. Pendanski
with a shovel. Because of that Zero was in big trouble. He can’t drink any
water and that the Warden said to put hidden cameras everywhere. Also that
there still needs to dug 7 holes said the Warden although Zero was away.
That is all the info I read till chapter
30. I hope to read more.
