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Louis Sachar Holes

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Holes is about a place called camp green lake that doesn’t actually have a lake because it is dried out, it is where bad boys are sent to try to become better and they are made to dig holes that are five feet wide and five feet deep every day until they are released. A boy named Stanley is sent to camp green lake after being accused of stealing something belonging to a celebrity. Louis Sachar keeps his audience reading this book by not giving all of the story at once. He gives mysteries that make people want to keep reading to find them out. He also entertains us as the readers with some pretty interesting characters all with different and unique personalities.

Louis Sachar successfully keeps his audience reading in his book Holes. I believe that there are two main reasons how …show more content…

One of the reason for this is because Louis Sachar gives us a mystery in the book Holes. He does not gives us all of the storyline or story right away, he gradually gave us bits and pieces to put together everything. For example, he first starts giving us the description of the one and only Camp Green Lake. He doesn’t tell us everything about it and it leaves us with many questions so the audience decides to keep moving on with the book trying to discover all of the answers. This is really clever because we all want to find out mysteries if we come across them. Louis Sachar also keeps his audience reading by giving us some pretty interesting characters. The book would be boring to read if the author just gave us any old characters with basic personalities, but Louis Sachar definitely did not do that. Louis Sachar gave us unique and

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