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Holes: Louis Sachar - Short summary / Reading Log

1.646 Wörter / ~6 Seiten sternsternsternstern_0.2stern_0.3 Autor Ulrich L. im Apr. 2015
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Englisch

Universität, Schule

Griesheim GHS

Note, Lehrer, Jahr

1- Sanlorenzo 2014

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Ulrich L. ©
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Jonas Brück Reading Log “Holes” 24.06.2014

Chapter 1

Setting & Characters

  • Texas; Camp Green Lake somewhere in the desert

  • no protagonists

Summary

First of all the area at Camp Green Lake is described as a hot, big, dry and flat wasteland. Moreover, the author says that there is no shade and only two trees surrounded by a lot of dangerous animals.

Connection

It reminds me of a big punishment camp for convicted people to work.

Prediction

I think we will see some people working and living at the camp.

Chapter 2+3

Setting & Characters

  • on the way to CGL

  • Stanley Yelnats, driver, guard

Summary

The CGL is an area for improving the character of “bad boys” by digging holes. One of them is the overweighted Stanley, a poor boy without friends. On the way to the boot camp he remembers his family with his great-grandfather, who got robbed by Kissing Kate Barlow. A long time ago they got cursed and since then they are very unlucky.

Connection

This excerpt is redolent of some real prisons which are alike.

Prediction

In my opinion Stanley will be shocked by the camp life.


Chapter 4+5

Setting & Characters

  • at CGL

  • guard, driver, Mr. Sir, Mr. Pendanski

  • Stanley, Squid, X-Ray, Magnet, Armpit, ZigZag

Summary

The fourth chapter starts with Stanley’s arrival at the boot camp. Mr. Sir the manager warns him about the hard life at the camp. Later his counsellor Mr. Pendanski introduces him to the other boys, called Squid, X-Ray, Magnet, Armpit and ZigZag. Already after a few moments, Stanley has a strange disagreement with Armpit.

Connection

This text is similar to a film I watched about jails for children.

Prediction

I suppose that S. Yelnats will find friends now.

Chapter 6+7

Setting & Characters

  • at CGL (and outside in the desert)

  • Stanley & the other boys

  • Mr. Pendanski

Summary

At the beginning of chapter 6 Stanley explains the crime which brought him to the boot camp to the other boys there. He insists that he didn’t really steal the shoes of a famous basketball player, they just fell in front of him. Furthermore, he digs his first hole.

He is the slowest digger and it is very hard for Stanley. In the meantime the boy elucidates the reason for his ancestor’s curse. His great-great-grandfather Elya Yelnats made a deal with Madame Zeroni, but then he forgot it and didn’t accomplish the arrangement.

Connection

Above all Madame Zeroni reminds me of an old, wise and intelligent woman like in many other books.

Prediction

I hope that digging his second hole will be much easier for Stanley.


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Precisely then Stanley has the bag so he shoulders the blame in front of Mr. Sir. He doesn’t believe that, so he carries him to the Warden. She is annoyed by Mr. Sir and slaps him with her poisonous nail polish. With the same enamel she colures Stanley’s nails.

In this part of the book they also talk with their counsellor about their job wishes. Bizarrely Zero the smallest and most quiet of the group utters that he likes trenching. Besides Stanley continues writing letters to his mum.

Connection

This discussion of all the boys about their job wishes is similar to the debate our class had in the employment agency.

Prediction

I think Mr. Sir will be very angry at Stanley now and he is going to make his life miserable.

Chapter 21-30

Setting & Characters

  • at CGL (and outside in the desert)

  • Stanley & the other boys

  • Mr. Pendanski, Mr. Sir and the Warden

Summary

While Stanley is away Zero digs a part of his hole. He justifies this with Stanley’s innocence with the seeds. Additionally he believes that Caveman didn’t steal the shoes. As time passes they get friends and Stanley perceives that Zero is analphabet. Thus they make a deal.

Zero digs a part of Stanley’s hole every day. Conversely he teaches him to read and write.

Moreover the sub-plot continues in these chapters. The narrator tells the story of Green Lake one hundred and ten years ago. To summarize the wonderful Kate Barlow fell in love with the colored young man Sam. Trout Walker saw them kissing and because he was angry caused by the brush-off from Kate he led the mob to kill Sam.

He established that with the law that prohibited blacks to kiss whites. Trout Walker was on one hand the son of the richest man in the country. But on the other hand he was very disrespectful and impolite. Because of Sam’s death Kate turned into the outla.....

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  • Mr. Pendanski, Mr. Sir and the Warden

    Summary

    Unfortunately nobody cares about Zero except Stanley. He decides to help him and follows him into the desert to avoid his dying. He finds him under the boat Mary Lou. This is a further connection to the second plot. This place is exactly where Sam got killed. Trusting that they find food and water Stanley helps Zero to get up on the mountain and there they find Sam’s onion field and a spring.

  • More and more secrets get lifted. Zero is an ancestor of Madame Zeroni who cursed the family for breaking the deal to carry her up the mountain. But now Stanley carries Zero to the top of the rock so the jinx buries.

    Connection

    These chapters remind me of some myths. On top of the rock is a heaven.

    Prediction

    I think the children will have a good life on top of the mountain.

    Chapter 41-50

    Setting & Characters

    • at CGL (and outside in the desert)

    • at Sam’s onion mountain

    • Stanley & the other boys

    • Mr. Pendanski, Mr. Sir and the Warden

    Summary

    Furthermore Zero tells that he has stolen the shoes from his orphanage, but when he got nervous he threw them away. Alas they fell directly in front of Stanley, so he got arrested. Now they want to find the treasure of Kate Barlow “KB”, because it is near where Stanley found the gold lipstick tube with Kissing Kate’s initials.

    Nevertheless they are already expected. When they just want to open the treasure chest Mr. Pendanski, Mr. Sir and the Warden appear to steal it. However, they can’t take it because the children are surrounded by yellow-spotted lizards. While they’re waiting for the death of the boys the Warden tel.....

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