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Stanley Yelnats is a 15 year old boy that lives with his family who has been cursed for 150 years. The reason why he and his family are cursed is because of his great great Grandfather Elya Yelnats didn’t fulfill a promise he made to Madame Zeroni. Because he didn’t fulfill that promise and married another woman madame Zeroni put a curse on his family. This curse is what caused Stanley to have a very unusual childhood.

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One day, Stanley was walking down the street when all of a sudden a pair of shoes fall from the sky. He then gets accused of stealing the pair of shoes, because a famous baseball player named Clyde Livingston also known as “Sweet feet”, donated them. Because of this, he gets sent to a camp called “Camp Green Lake”, a juvenile detention camp.

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Stanley had no choice in going to the camp. It was either green lake camp or he had to be imprisoned for the crime he was accused of.

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On the left is Stanley and on the right is Zero

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When Stanley arrives at green lake camp he realizes the place is actually a dried-out dessert.

Stanley has a really hard time at the camp. They are forced to do a lot of manual labor. Stanley has a hard time digging holes there due to the incredible heat and the hard, dry land. Stanley tries to become friends with X-Ray, the leader of the group at the camp but this becomes harder as Stanley becomes better friends with a boy named Zero also known as Hector Zeroni. Zero doesn't seem to be like the typical mentor but he teaches Stanly how to get used to the camp and becomes his best friend. Later in the story we can see zero bring out the heroic side of stanley.

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Zero runs away from the camp. So Stanley takes Mr. Sir’s truck to go and find him. While driving Mr. Sir's truck, he drives it into a hole. He runs away from the campsite into the desert and eventually finds Zero taking shelter under the remains of a boat, and sets off for his journey into the desert with Zero.

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The main challenge in Holes was enduring the vigor of the work camp, the heat, and digging holes. The camp was vigor because they had bad food, barely any water, and the counselors were very tough. There were also poisonous reptiles such as rattlesnakes and yellow spotted lizards while they had to dig the holes.

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While Stanley and zero are wandering through the desert they decide to climb a mountain called “God’s thumb” in search of anything they could find like, food or water throughout the desert. When Stanley and Zero are climbing God's Thumb because it's the scariest part of the story. Stanley almost falls while climbing and Zero faints from lack of water, so Stanley had to carry him for the rest of the journey up the mountain.

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Once Stanley reached the top of Gods Thumb Stanley finds water and onions andwakes up Zero with the water. This means that Stanley and zero would be able to survive the rest of their journey and and get back to the camp. There isn't really a weapon given to Stanley. Although, throughout his journey, all of the boys are given realy awful food called sploosh. In this case the special weapon comes in a form food and water. It’s important because it helped them survive their journey. Without it, they would have died of hunger.

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Stanley and Zero decide to go back to Camp Green Lake to investigate the hole where Stanley had found a rusty old chest. The chest was the one that Kate Barlow had hidden a long time ago. In the chest was a lot of money, gold and other valuables. The Warden, Mr. Sir, tried to take the chest away from them.

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Without Stanley knowing, he breaks the family curse because Zero is a descendant of Madame Zeroni. When he carries Zero to the top of of the mountain, he sings to him and let’s him drink from the stream that runs uphill, fulfilling the promise that his great great grandfather made.

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Mr. Sir, tried to take the chest away from them. the Warden accuses Stanley and Zero of stealing the chest. Angered, Stanley calls the Warden a liar. Zero also says that if they looked at the chest it said “Stanley Yelnats” this is one of staley’s ancestors that had the chest stolen form them. Ms. Morengo allows Stanley to take the chest home with him and let’s Zero go with him. Stanley and Zero split riches. Zero spends some of his fortune by hiring private investigators to find his mom and the camp has shut down. they maintain friendship by becoming neighbors.