Plot
At the beginning of the story, Stanley Yelnats, a 13-year-old boy who is supposedly affected by a family "curse", has been wrongly accused of stealing the shoes of the baseball player Clyde Livingston from a charity auction. As punishment for this crime, he is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention and correctional facility where convicts of similar age are forced to dig holes to "build their character." Warden Walker, real granddaughter of Trout Walker, is actually looking for a buried treasure that outlaw Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow stole from Stanley's great-grandfather. Years ago, Stanley's family got cursed by Madame Zeroni, a fortune-teller and ancestor, due to a promise not fulfilled by Elya Yelnats, Stanley's great-great-grandfather, more popularly known in the novel as a "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather."
Later in the story, the Warden’s decision that the boys dig more extensively for treasure leads to several dramatic events, later causing inmate Hector "Zero" Zeroni, a descendant of Madame Zeroni and one of Stanley’s better friends, to flee into the desert. Stanley, in search of Zero, finds him in a tunnel dug underneath an abandoned rowboat bearing the name "Mary Lou", the donkey of "Sam the onion man" over a century before. Zero had been living on jars of very old spiced peaches that he had found in the boat, which he called "Sploosh". Upon seeing a mountain resembling a human fist giving the Thumbs signal/thumbs up sign, Stanley recalls the story of his ancestor Stanley Yelnats I, who finds "refuge on God’s thumb", which Zero and Stanley climb in search of water.
Atop the river, Stanley discovers a field of onions, which the boys eat, and a pool of groundwater, which they drink, and during their contentment Stanley sings to Zero that they should return to Camp Green Lake to find the buried treasure. Upon returning, Zero steals some water and food from the kitchens while Stanley looks for the buried treasure. At this they succeed, but are apprehended by the Warden and the camp staff, and become surrounded by a group of lethal yellow-spotted lizards. Because the boys have consumed onions, the lizards do not bite them. Unable to leave the hole they occupy, they remain in place until the next morning, during which an attorney arrives requesting Stanley’s release. When the warden demands the suitcase, Zero indicates the name ‘Stanley Yelnats’ written on it, its contents being the jewels, deeds, stocks and promissory notes stolen from Stanley Yelnats the first.
Protagonist Stanley IV then uses the bonds to buy a new house for his family, and Zero hires a team of investigators to find his missing mother; meanwhile, the drought at Green Lake is replaced by rainfall, as if in response to Stanley's fulfilment of his ancestor's promise (a suggestion left purposely ambiguous by the narration). In a final scene, Clyde Livingston, along with the Yelnats and Zeroni families, celebrates the success of Stanley’s father's antidote to foot odor, composed of preserved and fermented spiced peaches and named "Sploosh" by Zero. The warden is forced to sell Camp Green Lake to the state government, who turns it into a Girl Scout camp, a coincidence since Mr. Sir, a head of the camp, told the campers that "this isn't a Girl Scout camp", referring to the backbreaking digging. Then they began to like Mr.Sir.
Setting
Holes takes place at Camp Green Lake in Texas. The town used to be by the largest lake in the state, but became a dry lake-bed after Sam was killed on the lake 110 years earlier. However, after Stanley, the great-great-grandson of Elya, carried Zero, a descendant of Madame Zeroni up to the mountaintop, he unknowingly broke the curse that had haunted the Yelnats for generations by singing the lullaby to Zero.
Characters
Stanley Yelnats
Stanley is the main character in 'Holes'. Stanley is white and overweight. He is from a poor family and lives with his mother and father. He doesn't have any siblings. Before being sent to Camp Green Lake, Stanley lived a normal life, except he was bullied at school by Derrick Dunne, and had no friends. He gets sent to Camp Green Lake because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time: the police thought he had stolen a pair of shoes belonging to a baseball player from a charity auction for the people at the shelter. At Camp Green Lake he lives in D Tent with X-Ray, Armpit, Squid, Zig-zag, Zero, and Magnet. His closest friend at Camp is Zero. Stanley teaches Zero to read and write. In his free time at Camp he writes letters to his Mom and he receives letters from her. Stanley is a nice, young, and friendly person. He does not fight like the other boys at camp do and he does as he is told most of the time. He is extremely cautious about the sides in Tent D and never got on either sides' wrong sides.
Hector "Zero" Zeroni
Hector Zeroni is one of the boys from D Tent. His nickname is Zero, because those at the camp believe that "nothing is going on in his little brain" (as quoted from Mr. Pendanski). The silent boy Zero does not speak to anyone but Stanley. People always look down on him and think he is dumb, but he is a really brilliant, prudential boy. Zero always finishes digging his hole first before anyone else because he is such a fast digger. He is younger than Stanley, has dark skin and was homeless before he was sent to camp. He is illiterate at the start of Stanley's time at Camp Green Lake; later, Stanley offers to teach Zero how to read in exchange for Zero digging part of Stanley's hole each day. This trade is met with criticism from the other boys at Camp Green Lake. Near the end of the story, Zero reveals that it was he who stole Clyde Livingston's sneakers from a Charity Auction and put them on top of a parked car. Later the car passed a bridge and the shoes fell off, where they then landed on Stanley's head as he was walking home from school.
Elya Yelnats
Stanley's great great grandfather. While a fifteen-year old boy growing up in Latvia, he had fallen in love with and wanted to marry Myra Menke, the daughter of a wealthy landlord. However, he was unable to compete with a fellow suitor, Igor Barkov, who had offered his largest pig. To get help, he had gone to his friend, Madame Zeroni who, despite warning him that the girl he hoped to marry was spoiled and empty-headed, gave him one of her pigs and, and a way to make it grow larger - he had to carry it up a nearby mountain every day and sing a song to it as it drank from the stream there. However, he missed the last day, and the pig ended up only as big as the pig Igor offered, and when Elya suggested that Myra choose, he is shocked and disgusted that she is as empty-headed as Madame Zeroni had warned, when she had to resort to number games in order to choose between Elya and Igor, despite the fact that Igor was old enough to be her father and quite crude. As a result, he had gotten on a boat to America - in the process, forgetting to fulfil his promise to Madame Zeroni. As a result, his family and all their descendants were cursed to have bad luck. However, he was able to translate the song that Madame Zeroni had given him, and it was retained by the family for many years. Stanley's family always blames him for things that go wrong and they say it was because of their "no-good-dirty-rotting-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.
Madame Zeroni
Madame Zeroni was a gypsy and close friend of Elya Yelnats in Latvia, the homeland of the Yelnats and the Zeronis. She was believed to be a fortune teller, but also offered help to Elya when he hoped to marry a local girl. In return for her help, he was to carry Madame Zeroni up the mountain and sing to her as he had done with his pig. However the promise was broken, and she put a curse on the generations of Yelnats.
X-Ray
X-Ray was in Camp Green Lake before the other boys and is the unspoken leader of Tent D. X-ray's real name is Rex Washburn as said in the sequel (Small Steps) and is at Camp Green Lake for selling oregano to people, telling them it was marijuana. He convinced Stanley to give him whatever he finds in the holes, so X-Ray can get a day off as a reward. He made Stanley his ally and went along leading Tent D by a reward-and-ally-routine. He wears thick glasses and can hardly see without the glasses. He names Stanley, Caveman and also arranges the line for lining up for water.
Armpit
Armpit is one of the boys at Camp Green Lake whose real name is Theodore Johnson. He is described as big, muscular and dark-skinned. He is called Armpit because he got stung in the armpit by a scorpion. Many people think it is because his armpits stink. He was sent to the camp after getting into an altercation with two older boys in the Holes movie. When Stanley was sent to Camp Green Lake, he thought that he was the biggest due to being overweight the beginning of the book.
Zig Zag
Zig Zag is one of the tent D boys at Camp Green Lake. His real name is Ricky. Stanley believes he is a more unstable character. Zigzag is extremely violent and abrupt, and did not show any signs of remorse when assaulting Stanley physically. He has been described to have wild blonde hair, paranoia and an abnormally thick neck.
The Warden
The Warden is in charge of Camp Green Lake. She has red hair, and is covered with freckles. She was tall already, but was even more intimidating when she looks down at the boys, who were in their holes. She is extremely violent and abusive, and constantly attacks the staff and the boys by using poison. According to the novel, she has harmed Armpit by jabbing him with a pitchfork. She is extremely selfish, and only rewards those who do her bidding. She does not care for redemption of the boys, but only finding Kissin' Kate Barlow's treasure.
Mr. Sir
He is one of the staff in Camp Green Lake. He just quit smoking and is often seen with a big bag of sunflower seeds, as a replacement to cigarettes. He is demanding, and his motto would be "This isn't a Girl Scouts' camp." He always makes sure everyone is working to the limits of their strength.
Mr. Pendanski
Mr Pendanski is a worker in Camp Green Lake and he gives out water to the people who live in Camp Green Lake. Mr Pendanski was Stanley's counselor. The boys in "Group D" call him "Mom" as he is motherly to them. He seemed friendly, but is actually very mean, as he mocks Zero and threatens Stanley at gunpoint. He was the camp's doctor though at the ending of the novel it turns out he has no qualifications to be one. According to the book, everyone remembers 3 words that will help them remember his name. The 3 words are pen-dance-key. (Sounds like Pendanski)
Stanley's family
The members of Stanley's family mentioned are his mom, dad, his great grandfather and his great great grandfather. The father, Stanley Yelnats III, was an inventor, but never had the luck to succeed in inventing anything. Thus the family is poor and lives in an apartment that smelt of old sneakers, as the father was trying to figure out a new way to recycle sneakers. The father and son sometimes believed that things were never right for them because they were under a curse.
The mother was optimistic, and always reminded the father and son that there was no curse at all, and that not all Yelnats were failures. She is also extremely worried about her son, but also trusts him, as it is obvious that she believes all the lies Stanley had told her in the letters to her.
See also Elya Yelnats, the great-great-grandfather of Stanley Yelnats IV.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's book by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1964 and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin in 1967. The book was adapted into two major motion pictures: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in 1971, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2005. The book's sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, was written by Roald Dahl in 1972. Dahl had also planned to write a third book in the series but never finished it.[1]
The story was originally inspired by Roald Dahl's experience of chocolate companies during his schooldays. Cadbury would often send test packages to the schoolchildren in exchange for their opinions on the new products. At that time (around the 1920s), Cadbury and Rowntree's were England's two largest chocolate makers and they each often tried to steal trade secrets by sending spies, posing as employees, into the other's factory. Because of this, both companies became highly protective of their chocolate making processes. It was a combination of this secrecy and the elaborate, often gigantic, machines in the factory that inspired
Plot
The story centers around an average and poor boy named Charlie Bucket, who lives in extreme poverty with his extended family, and his adventures inside the chocolate factory of Willy Wonka. Fifteen years prior to the beginning of the story, Willy Wonka opened the largest chocolate factory in the world, but spies stole his recipes, so he eventually closed the factory to the public. Although, it wasn't closed forever and one day he decided to allow five children to visit the factory. Each child will win a lifetime supply of chocolate after the factory tour. The children have to find one of the five golden tickets hidden inside the wrapping paper of random Wonka bars. Augustus Gloop (a boy who eats constantly), Veruca Salt (a girl who is spoiled), Violet Beauregarde (a girl who chews gum all day), Mike Teavee (a boy who is addicted to television), and Charlie Bucket win tickets and visit the factory.
The factory is full of strange and fantastical rooms, including a chocolate-mixing room that looks like a huge garden, where everything is made of candy and there is a chocolate lake in the middle, a research and development room with dozens of complex machines designing new forms of candy, a nut-sorting room with an army of trained squirrels that sort the good nuts from the bad, and a TV studio-like room with a giant "Wonkavision" camera, which can teleport giant bars of chocolate into people's homes through their television. The factory is staffed by small, pygmy-like men called Oompa-Loompas. A pink Viking sugar boat and a special glass elevator (with walls covered in buttons) take the tour group from room to room; the elevator can go "up and down, sideways, slantways, and any other ways you can think of."
"Accidents" happen while on the guided tour. Augustus falls in the chocolate lake and gets accidentally sucked up and taken away to the room where they make the most delicious kind of strawberry-flavoured chocolate-coated fudge. Violet, ignoring Wonka's advice, tries some of his three-course-dinner gum in the R&D department and swells up like a blueberry upon reaching the blueberry pie dessert. While in the nut-sorting room Veruca, after a failed attempt to obtain a sorting squirrel by getting her father to buy one, attempts to steal one herself – the squirrels deem her a 'bad nut' and throw her down the garbage chute (her parents then dive down the chute to save her). Mike tries to use the Television Chocolate machine – a machine that sends chocolate bars via television and allows someone to literally take the bar from the screen – and ends up shrunken to about 6 inches high. Charlie, being the only child left and the one Wonka likes the most, wins the prize: he will one day take over the factory from Wonka, Wonka wanting to pass his factory on to someone else but wanting to choose a child so that he won't have to deal with an adult trying to do things his way rather than learn from Wonka's experience. Wonka, Charlie and Grandpa Joe board the Great Glass Elevator, which bursts through the roof. As they float in the air, they witness the other four children returning home. The pipe has made Augustus thin as a straw and he is still covered in chocolate, Violet is drained of her blueberry juice but her face is tinged purple, Veruca and her parents are covered with garbage, and Mike is overstretched and is now overtall and extremely skinny. Though the children got punished in accordance to their vices, Wonka does honor the terms of each Golden Ticket holder: a lifetime supply of Wonka candies, as each child and their parents are driving away in a truck full of Wonka chocolate. Wonka, Charlie and Grandpa Joe then travel in the elevator to Charlie's house to fetch the rest of his family.
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