Holes by Louis Sachar is a book based about unfair punishments. A boy called Stanley Yelnats is framed for stealing a pair of sneakers he did not steal. He got sent to camp green lake where he gets up to trouble. I enjoyed very much because of the different types of characters from innocent Stanley Yelnats to the aggressive Warden.
The way the author wrote it it was like two different sides of the book; There was the joking funny sneaky boys then there was the dark side of the Warden and Mr Sir. A easy way to show this is when the boys stole a sack of seeds and Stanley took the blame. Mr Sir got angry and took him to the Warden. The Warden wears venomous nail polish; it wasn’t dry and she scratched Mr Sirs face for wasting her time.
The genre of this book I feel is adventure because Stanley and his freind Zero escape from Camp Green Lake. They have to climb to the top of a mountain. Stanley had to carry Zero to the top. The reason why they climbed to the top is because they believed there was water source at the top. I feel like it is also about freindships, because Stanley has to make freinds with the boys and they all have nicknames: Caveman-Stanley Yelnats, Zero-Hector Zeroni, Xray, Magnet, Twitch, Zigzag, Armpit and Squid they even called Mr Pendanski Mom.
Louis Sachar wrote very weirdly because there was a poem that he repeated over and over in the book.
“If only if only the woodpecker sighs,
The bark on the trees is as soft as the skies.
While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
Crying to the moo-00-oon,
If only if only.”
But he changes the poem each time. He can make the book really tense. Like when the author made Stanley and Hector starving in the desert.
