Monday, 1 August 2011

In the novel Holes, what are the plot and climax?

The book
, by , tells the story of 14-year-old Stanley Yelnats, whose family has
been cursed with bad luck for generations. The curse began when his great-great-grandfather,
Elya Yelnats, failed to fulfill his promise to carry Madame Zeroni up a mountain. Stanley is
affected by the curse when he is falsely accused of stealing shoes donated by a star basketball
player to an orphanage and ends up being sentenced to Camp Green Lake. At the camp, boys are
required to dig a hole five feet wide and five feet deep every day. The counselors claim the
digging is meant to "build character" and ask the boys to bring them anything they
find. Stanley begins to suspect they are looking for something in particular when they are
uninterested in a fossil he finds but interested in an empty lipstick tube. It turns out that
the camp is searching for a treasure stolen from Stanley's cursed great grandfather, also named
Stanley Yelnats, by outlaw murderer "Kissin' Kate" Barlow.

When
Stanley's friend Zero runs away, Stanley decides to leave the camp to try to find him. When the
two reunite, Stanley breaks the curse on his family by carrying Zerothe great-great-grandson of
Madame Zeroniup a mountain, fulfilling Elya Yelnat's promise. Theoccurs when the two return to
the camp: they enter one of the holes and find the treasure, a suitcase marked "Stanley
Yelnats," but the warden finds them and points a gun at them just as poisonous lizards
swarm the hole. The two are saved when Stanley's lawyer shows up to exonerate him. Zero and
Stanley are both freed from Camp Green Lake and split the treasure, consisting of jewels and
bonds, to help their families.

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