HolesBy:Louis Sachar

Louis Sachar

Louis Sachar

Born in East Meadow, NYMarch 20,1954Father died during first semester of

collegeMoved to California to be closer to momGraduated from law school in 1980Married in 1985 to CarlaHad daughter, Sherre two years after

marriage

Genre

FictionMysteryRealistic CrimeRomance(Kate&Sam)Friendship

Setting

Wreck RoomTentDesertWarden’s Cabin

Theme

A unlucky teenager gets caught for a “crime” he didn’t do. So he is given a choice Camp Green Lake or Jail. He chooses Camp Green Lake. But what he doesn’t know is that this camps has you dig holes to “build character.”

Making friends from different backgrounds.

Problem & Solution

Elya doesn’t take Madame Zeroni up the mo2untain for water-Problem 1

So all of Elya’s desidents are all cursed with bad luck-Solution 1

Stanley and Hector climb The Big Thumb-Problem 2

They find water and onions-Solution 2

Characters

Stanley Yelnats-Caveman

His name is the same frontwards and backwards

OverweightComes from a poor familyUnlucky

Hector Zeroni-Zero

Doesn’t like to answer to dumb questions Can’t read or writeGood at mathSteals things for his own use, but, doesn’t

think nothing of itHis mom left him in a park alone

Kate Barlow-Kissn’ Kate Barlow

School teacherIn love with SamBecame an outlaw when her true love was

killedAfter she kills someone she kisses them

on the head

X-Ray

Leader of the groupCan see wellHas dirty glassesNice to Stanley after he hands him the

gold tubeOne of the smallest of their group

Warden

Rattle snake, poison, red, nail polishAlways wears cowboy bootsIn charge of everything at Camp Green

LakeRed hairIs looking for Kissin’ Kate Barlow’s

“treasure”

Mr. Sir

Gave up smoking for sunflower seedsHas a scar from The Warden on his cheekRudeScary lookingHas a rattlesnake tattoo