Holes Stanley Character Analysis

Have you ever gotten into trouble and didn’t do anything? Well that’s what happened to Stanley in the novel “Holes”. The author uses hyperboles and similes to demonstrate that Stanley perseveres through his punishments even though he didn’t commit the crime. The author uses hyperbole to exaggerate the punishment of digging holes. “Only ten million more to go, he thought, then placed the shovel back in the crack and jumped on it again,” pg 28.

Stanley in the beginning of the novel was poor, overweight, and bullied. He was also shy and unlucky. When stanley was poor, it was because he was from a poor family so he had never been to camp before (pg.5, Sachar). He also was living in a tiny apartment (pg.9, Sachar). This quote shows that he had never been to camp before because he was poor. Also, living in a tiny apartment ment that he was poor so he couldn't afford a house. Stanley was also bullied and overweight because the kids at middle school would often tease him about his size (pg.7, Sachar). Furthermore,

As stated on page 9 of Holes, “He lost his entire fortune when he was moving from New York to California. His stagecoach was robbed by the outlaw Kissin’ Kate Barlow.” Even Stanley’s great grandfather suffered due to Kate’s crime spree. The metamorphosis from kind hearted teacher to dangerous, insane renegade is truly

The novel begins with Stanley being wrongly accused of stealing a pair of sneakers owned by a famous baseball player. Due to his adversity, Stanley is sent to a juvenile detention facility ironically named Camp Green Lake. This camp resides in the middle of a desert, and is composed of disobedient kid who are forced to dig holes to“build character”. Stanley possess several Christlike traits, such as: his wounded and blistered hands from digging so many holes, the agony he possessed from dehydration and all of the physical labor he was subjected to, Stanley’s optimistic and self sacrificing character who risked death to save his friend Zero, Stanley’s patient and cordialness with other kids, (this trait is especially displayed when he is teaching his friend Zero to read) Stanley’s kindheartedly when he shared his sparing amounts of food and water with Zero, Stanley use of humble transportation due to his family's reduced budget, Stanley was last seen with the thieving kids of the camp and the thieving camp administrators, and finally,when Stanley returned to the camp, full of kids who committed several crimes and freed them from their grueling jobs of digging holes. In conclusion, characters, such as Stanley Yelnats IV are paralleled to Jesus Christ to exemplify their suffering, hopefulness, and other divine character

HOLES ESSAY Stanley has grown stronger since his first days at camp greenlake, if you are his friend you would be lucky to have him now that hes changed. Stanley has actually changed a lot but you might not have noticed. Stanley goes from weak to strong because of campgreenlake and Zero. Stanley was very weak in the start.

Stanley was a boy in middle school who was overweight. He got teased, was cursed, and unlucky. Could his life get worse? In fact, it did and he was accused of a crime he did not commit. He got sent to Camp Green Lake where he had a chance to change his life. Stanley was cursed from his great- great grandfather who stole a pig. Later in Stanley’s life, Stanley goes through many difficult times. Throughout Louis Sachar’s novel, Holes, Stanley is characterized as unlucky, overweight, and weak, but by encountering people, changes, and difficulties, Stanley is now lucky, fit, and caring by the end.

At camp, the other boys in both the book and movie version of the story give Stanley a hard time. This is an evident similarity between the book and movie. The people that are in charge of the boys in the detention camp are not the nicest of people and they are very strict with the boys. They also make the boys dig a big hole everyday they are at the detention camp in both versions of the story. Another way the boys are treated the same in both the book and movie is in the end when the camp boss wants to leave Zero and Stanley out in the desert and not report they are missing. In both versions the boys run away and the boss does not want to do the right thing and report they are gone.

At the beginning of Holes, Stanley was teased, overweight, and cursed. Stanley thought he was cursed by his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather, who forgot to bring Madam Zeroni up to the mountain. Since then, the Yelnats family have been under a curse which has affected Stanley in many ways. Stanley had gotten teased on by a kid named Derrick Dunne. Teachers found it funny when Stanley tried to tell on him, because Stanley was much bigger than Derrick- who once even dunked Stanley’s notebook into a toilet!

In the beginning our the novel holes Stanley is very heavy, dressed with new clothes he doesn't exactly love, and made some very painful changes. The quote (“The heaviest kid in the class” Sachar.7) means that stanley

is true in the extreme for Stanley, he does what he wishes and disregards the consequences. It is not a motto he actually employs towards the remaining characters; thinking only of himself, he does not care if anyone else is "comfortable" or not. Through dialogue such as this, Williams asserts to the reader/audience the fact that Stanley inherently fails to take into account the repercussions his own requirements and desires have on others. He is in total control and the only person endowed with power; therefore the only person he takes into consideration - and the only person his wife is allowed to take

Stanley’s actions are intense and mostly uncalled for, Stanley is heavily motivated by the past and

Throughout the play I felt that Stanley was always up to something. He was a violent character in the play and was an enemy to Blanche who was the protagonist. In the play Stanley may sound like he is big and strong, he is actually on the defensive. He would not have felt like he had to deal with Blanche if she would not have come live with him and Stella. He resented Blanche because of her actions of trying to turn Stella against Stanley.

Because Stanley changes from poor and weak to have money and muscle because of how Sachar describes him in the first time he dug his first hole and how he describes where he lives.

Stanley has the characteristics of a caring and trusting guy. “Dear mom, today was my first day and i’ve already made friends.” (Sachar 46) This shows he cares about his mom and doesn’t want her to worry about him. “X-ray was right the second hole was the hardest.” (Sachar 49) Stanley will believe what X-ray says and trust him. This shows Stanley’s thoughts in the beginning of the novel Holes.

It is not always about what is on the outside but what is on the inside. He has always been loving and caring but through this rough time in his life it is shown a lot. He shows this side to his family and also his new friends. After Stanley was done taking the blame for the spilt sunflower seeds and zero digging Stanley’s hole for him, Stanley showed Zero he cared for him; he agreed to teach him to read. “I’ll try to teach you to read if you want,” Stanley offered. “I don’t know how to teach, but I’m not worn-out today, since you dug a lot of my hole.” (Sachar, 96.) Stanley was grateful for what Zero had done for him and wanted to repay the favor and help him out as well. When Stanley left for camp his mom gave him pen and paper so he could write her and tell her how it was going. By writing to his mom and telling her that he was okay, even though he lied about what he was doing he showed he cared for his parents. “Dear Mom and Dad, Camp is hard, but challenging. We’ve been running obstacle courses, and have to swim long distances on the lake. Tomorrow we learn” (Sachar, 81.) As the story comes to an end Stanley really cares about Zero and refuses to leave camp without him. He gets his lawyer to ask for files and after the Attorney General could not find his files they took Zero home with them. “C’mon Stanley,” said his lawyer. “Your parents are waiting.” Stanley stayed where he was.”