Holes by Louis Sachar

Theme

Fate and Destiny interacted with Stanley and his family and they decide their past, present and future.

Character

Protagonist: Modern Camp Green: Stanley Yelnats
Past Camp Green: Stanley's great-great-grandfather Elya Yelnats and Sam,Kate.

Antagonist: Modern Camp Green Warden and Mr Sir. Past Green Lake Madame Zeroni and Trout Walker.

Dynamic character: Zero

Flat character: Boys from the group D and Mr.Pendanski.

Plot

The story of Stanley Yelnats who is wrong accused of robbery and he is sent to a corrective camp to dig misterious holes looking for something that he begin to discover it is related to his family's past.

Setting

Present day: Camp Green Lake, a juvenile correctional facility in Texas.

Flasback 110 years ago: Green Lake, a city in the location of the modern camp

Floreshadowing: Present: Stanley realized gold tube was a half lipstick contaimer of kissin Kate Barlow. Past: Hattie Parker saw and pointed Sam and kate when they kissing.

Conflict

The conflicts in the present is Stanley's sentence to work at Camp Green Lake, as well as the unresolved family curse of the Yelnats family.

Point of View

Louis Sachar mainly uses a third-person reliable narrator.