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. The task of digging feels impossible to finish; however, Stanley keeps digging. The author uses a simile to show how terrible this punishment is for Stanley. “He felt like he was digging his own grave,” pg. 38. Though Stanley feels like he might actually die, he refuses to give up and keeps digging his
As the camera follows Stanley's shovel breaking through the dry earth, the sound of the clinking metal against the rocks creates a sense of isolation and alienation. The diegetic sound of the boys' heavy breathing and the rhythmic thud of their shovels hitting the ground intensifies the physical and emotional toll of their labor, further emphasizing Stanley's journey into the unknown. As Stanley navigates through the challenges and tribulations of life at Camp Green Lake, he eventually reaches the stage of the supreme ordeal, where he faces his biggest test and undergoes a profound transformation. In Holes, Stanley's supreme ordeal comes in the form of a confrontation with the cruel and tyrannical warden, who holds the key to uncovering the truth about his family's curse.
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 author uses similes to demonstrate that Stanley preserves even though he’s doing time for a crime he didn’t commit. First, the author uses a simile in this situation to compare destiny and himself because it felt like destiny had stuck him in some shoes. “Stanley felt like he was holding destiny’s shoes,” he said. 19).
The author also uses hyperbole to show that Stanley perseveres through digging holes even though he thinks it is very hard. ”Only ten million more to go. ”pg21 Even though Stanley thinks he can not do it, he still finishes his hole. In conclusion, the use of figurative language is used by the author to show that Stanley perseveres through
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.
Like a shovel to dirt as a pen to paper. In “Digging,” Seamus Heaney uses specific elements such as diction, and imagery to convey his meaning that children don’t always want to be like their past generations of men.
Having to find a place to cremate his friend’s corpse, and at the same time trying to stay alive, proved to be quite the challenge. His hardships on his way to find a suitable place to cremate Sam McGee is described in stanzas 34 - 39, “In the days to come, though my lips were dumb, in my heart how I cursed that load. In the long, long night, by the firelight, while the huskies, round in a ring, howled out their woes to the homeless snows - O God! How I loathed the thing And every day that quiet clay seemed to heavy and heavier grow; and on I went, though the grub was getting low; the trail was bad and I felt half mad, but I swore I would not give in.” The goings get so tough along his trip that the narrator begins to feel jealous of Sam McGee’s corpse, thinking death is better than what he is going
Pg 38. Shows that the hole he was digging was so difficult, the pain he felt was as if he was digging his own grave, even so he kept digging. Furthermore, the author uses this simile to show what was thought to be a blessing turned out to be a curse. “Suddenly a pair of sneakers fell on top of him, seemingly out of nowhere, like a gift from God,” pg 24. The sneakers that fell
To proceed, a simile is an approach a poet can take to compare two things while using like or as with figurative language. To illustrate, in the eighth stanza of the poem, Lee states, “I gave him persimmons, swelled, heavy as sadness and as sweet as love” (Lines 58-60). In this quote, the simile “heavy as sadness” is used to demonstrate the painful memories of the speaker, and the simile “sweet as love” is used to show the best the speaker is trying to make out of their position. These similes highlight the dejected tone represented throughout the poem by exemplifying the sadness of the setting. Thus, this illustration makes sense of the simile used in the poem and helps deliver the speaker’s sadness.
In ‘Holes’ it is said that “if you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy”. In what ways does Stanley Yelnats change and develop as a character during the course of the novel? Do you think the punishment the boys receive at Camp Green Lake is an effective way of preventing crime?
In the novel Holes, the author uses hyperbole and simile to demonstrate that Stanley perseveres even though he’s framed and forced to suffer punishment for a crime he didn’t commit. Firstly, the author uses a simile to help show Stanley’s perseverance, “and suddenly a pair of sneakers fell on top of him, seemingly out of nowhere, like a gift from God. ”Page 24. This leads up to Stanley getting framed not knowing they belonged to someone.
At the beginning, of Holes Stanley was not caring. Stanley says,¨He needs to save his energy for the people that count ( Sachar 82 ).¨ Zero does not know how to read or write, so he needs help and Stanley is his only friend. Stanley only cares about himself ( Sachar 80 ). He only hangs out with the ¨cool¨ kids, yet Zero can not be in the group because he is ¨nothing.¨ Stanley
He studied in the University of California which gave him inspiration to start his journey as an author. His inspiration of Holes was unknown to him, it just came to him, but Camp Green Lake was from his knowledge of the unbearable, hot weather in Texas which is where Sachar now lives with his wife, Carla Jean Askew, and his daughter, Sherre Sachar. Stanley Yelnats and his family were ‘cursed’ because of Stanley’s no-good-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. It seems that Stanley is always in the wrong place at the wrong time. But it always feels good to blame someone, doesn’t
Architecture, Painting, Sculpture even the landscape create a vision of the perfect place. A place of fantasy and meth where gods might walk with men, somewhere of cause which never existed in history, it is imagined, yet it has been created out of fragments of half dreamt half remembered ancient Greece and Rome. The Poet Shelly wrote at the beginning of the nineteenth century ‘’We are all Greeks, our laws our literature, our religion, our arts all have their roots in Greece’’ but for Greece we might still have been savages and ideologues. The human form and human mind pertain to perfection in ancient Greece, which has impressed its image on those fortress productions, whose very fragments of the despair of modern art.