For my second reading project for the second midterm, I read a book called Holes by Louis Sachar. The book begins with a point where a pair of shoes fall from the sky, and lands on top of Stanley Yelnats, who is the main character of the book. The shoes happen to be Clyde Livingston’s (or “Sweet Feet” (for those who don’t know, that is his nickname) shoes that were stolen. Stanley was arrested that day for stealing those shoes, and everyone in his family blames it on his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. He had a choice of going to jail or Camp Green Lake. He had chosen Camp Green Lake. It was a long trip but he eventually made it. On his arrival, Mr. Sir guides him throughout the camp, and the schedule of digging holes. The next day at camp Stanley Yelnats was digging holes they were looking for something they didn't know what they were looking for. Eventually found out that it was hard to dig the first hole. Mr. Sir came out with a water truck, eventually asked how his first hole was, Stanley said it was hard he was starting to get blisters on his hands, he eventually continued digging his hole until finally he was finished. (Here is the part we get into some of the history of Camp Green Lake) There was actually a lake once at Camp Green Lake, there was also a village, and a schoolhouse at Camp Green Lake (Though it wasn’t called Camp Green Lake with the town in it). The school house was run-down, out of shape, so Sam, a person who soled onions in the town of Green Lake, helped fix up the schoolhouse, and was also winning the teacher’s heart. The teacher of the school house was Kate Barlow. Because of this, the mayor of Green Lake (he was also trying to win the teacher’s heart), decided to tell lies about Kate Barlow, and destroy the schoolhouse, and eventually kill Sam. They killed Sam after they destroyed the school house. After that happened, Kate Barlow was no longer called Kate Barlow, she was now called Kissin’ Kate Barlow (she robs, then kills, then kisses any men that run into her at all) The next day he came out and he found a gold tube that said KB on it. No one knew what it was, so X-Ray said, “whatever you find you give it to me because I've been out here for almost a year digging, and I have not found anything.” So later on he hides the gold tube in his hole, and eventually picks it up and yells out that he found something, so a counselor, named Mr. Pendanski, comes out and inspects this gold tube, so he eventually calls out the warden, and she comes out and she likes what she saw, so she gave X-Ray the rest of the day off. The kids in Group D eventually was given an order to dig deeper into X-Ray’s hole, and combine other holes into one giant hole. No one found anything, so they dug separate holes. Eventually Zero, another character in the book, ran away from camp. He survived on this thing called “Sploosh.” Stanley eventually runs after Zero, and brings him back to camp. Stanley does bring him back to camp, and they eventually find what the warden was looking for, which was a trunk or a chest of some sort, which had Stanley’s name on it. Stanley was eventually released, and was brought back home. Camp Green Lake was eventually sold and was turned into a girls scout camp (one thing I forgot to mention, is that Mr. Sir says this ain’t no Girl’s Scout Camp, a lot in this book, so karma hits him hard in the end. This book was a really, really good book, if I were to rate this book on a scale of one to one hundred, one hundred being a really good book, I would rate it over nine thousand, because it is that good of a book. Some spots in this book, were actually getting really intense, and some spots, really boring. The chapters in this book were short, some were bigger than others, chapter two was the shortest chapter in the whole entire book. Two words I would give this book, are friendship, and Justice, because toward the beginning of the book, and towards the end of the book, there is justice involved with Stanley, and the Warden of Camp Green Lake, and Friendship being Zero and Stanley were making a friendship happen between them.
For my second reading project for the second midterm, I read a book called Holes by Louis Sachar. The book begins with a point where a pair of shoes fall from the sky, and lands on top of Stanley Yelnats, who is the main character of the book. The shoes happen to be Clyde Livingston’s (or “Sweet Feet” (for those who don’t know, that is his nickname) shoes that were stolen. Stanley was arrested that day for stealing those shoes, and everyone in his family blames it on his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. He had a choice of going to jail or Camp Green Lake. He had chosen Camp Green Lake. It was a long trip but he eventually made it. On his arrival, Mr. Sir guides him throughout the camp, and the schedule of digging holes. The next day at camp Stanley Yelnats was digging holes they were looking for something they didn't know what they were looking for. Eventually found out that it was hard to dig the first hole. Mr. Sir came out with a water truck, eventually asked how his first hole was, Stanley said it was hard he was starting to get blisters on his hands, he eventually continued digging his hole until finally he was finished. (Here is the part we get into some of the history of Camp Green Lake) There was actually a lake once at Camp Green Lake, there was also a village, and a schoolhouse at Camp Green Lake (Though it wasn’t called Camp Green Lake with the town in it). The school house was run-down, out of shape, so Sam, a person who soled onions in the town of Green Lake, helped fix up the schoolhouse, and was also winning the teacher’s heart. The teacher of the school house was Kate Barlow. Because of this, the mayor of Green Lake (he was also trying to win the teacher’s heart), decided to tell lies about Kate Barlow, and destroy the schoolhouse, and eventually kill Sam. They killed Sam after they destroyed the school house. After that happened, Kate Barlow was no longer called Kate Barlow, she was now called Kissin’ Kate Barlow (she robs, then kills, then kisses any men that run into her at all) The next day he came out and he found a gold tube that said KB on it. No one knew what it was, so X-Ray said, “whatever you find you give it to me because I've been out here for almost a year digging, and I have not found anything.” So later on he hides the gold tube in his hole, and eventually picks it up and yells out that he found something, so a counselor, named Mr. Pendanski, comes out and inspects this gold tube, so he eventually calls out the warden, and she comes out and she likes what she saw, so she gave X-Ray the rest of the day off. The kids in Group D eventually was given an order to dig deeper into X-Ray’s hole, and combine other holes into one giant hole. No one found anything, so they dug separate holes. Eventually Zero, another character in the book, ran away from camp. He survived on this thing called “Sploosh.” Stanley eventually runs after Zero, and brings him back to camp. Stanley does bring him back to camp, and they eventually find what the warden was looking for, which was a trunk or a chest of some sort, which had Stanley’s name on it. Stanley was eventually released, and was brought back home. Camp Green Lake was eventually sold and was turned into a girls scout camp (one thing I forgot to mention, is that Mr. Sir says this ain’t no Girl’s Scout Camp, a lot in this book, so karma hits him hard in the end.
This book was a really, really good book, if I were to rate this book on a scale of one to one hundred, one hundred being a really good book, I would rate it over nine thousand, because it is that good of a book. Some spots in this book, were actually getting really intense, and some spots, really boring. The chapters in this book were short, some were bigger than others, chapter two was the shortest chapter in the whole entire book.
Two words I would give this book, are friendship, and Justice, because toward the beginning of the book, and towards the end of the book, there is justice involved with Stanley, and the Warden of Camp Green Lake, and Friendship being Zero and Stanley were making a friendship happen between them.