https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod This Padlet is meant to determine key details of plot elements, Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution of BOTH plot lines in the novel en-us 2020-12-14 20:07:17 UTC 2025-12-12 03:18:11 UTC hello@padlet.com emmalynoneill https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1017755034 1. Setting: The main plot of Holes takes place in the year 1990. It fallows youg teenager through the hot, icolated, Camp Green Lake. "The land was barren and desolate," (Sachar 11).
2. Background: Stanley was accused of stealing shoes and was given th aption of going to jail or Camp Grren Lake.
3.Main Character Discription:
Stanley- Stanley is an overweight middle school kid, so most likely a pre-teen or young teen.
Zero- Zero is a small, mystirios kid as he does not talk. One thing that makes him stick out from the rest of the boys is that he is homeless and can't read.]]> 2020-12-14 20:15:08 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1017755034 emmalynoneill https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1022001590 Stanley digs his first hole and finds a fossil. "Stanley looked down in the hole. He had found his merical" (Sachar 23). ]]> 2020-12-15 21:20:39 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1022001590 emmalynoneill https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1022007002 Stanley learns the culture of the boys at Camp Green Lake. "Caveman's one tough dude"(Sachar 20). ]]> 2020-12-15 21:22:38 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1022007002 emmalynoneill https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1022009926 Stanley found gold rod and debates on weather to give it to the Warden himself or give it to X-Ray. "He could just keep it but that wouldn't do him any good" (Sachar 61). ]]> 2020-12-15 21:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1022009926 emmalynoneill https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1022016010 Stanly takes the blame for staelling the sunflwer seeds when he could have ratted out Magnet. "while Mr. Sir was filling our canteens, I snuck onto his truck and stoll his sunflower seeds" (Sachar 89). ]]> 2020-12-15 21:25:55 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1022016010 emmalynoneill https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1050565395 Setting:  This flash back plot takes place at Camp Green Lake the year of 1888. That is almost one hundred years before Stanley IV.
Main Character Discription
Katherine: Miss Katherine in a beuatiful school teacher the lived in Camp Green Lake befor it dried up.
Sam: Sam is an African-American onion picker with a "hundred year old" donkey named Mary Lou.]]> 2021-01-04 01:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1050565395 emmalynoneill https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1050739413 Kathrine talks to Sam about the leaking roof and Sam sipmly says, "I can fix that." The two talk while Sam works on the roof, and sometimes would he would resight poems by memory. (Sachar 109)]]> 2021-01-04 03:40:38 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1050739413 emmalynoneill https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1050746722 Kathrine continues to ask Sam to fix things around the school house till it is the most beuatifull of all Texas. But when Sam would finish and leave, it would leave an epmteness in Kathrines heart. (Sachar )]]> 2021-01-04 03:46:13 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1050746722 emmalynoneill https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1050750129 Kathrine finaly tells Sam about the haertbreak and lonleness she fells when he leaves. Sam claim that "he can fix that too." (Sachar )]]> 2021-01-04 03:48:47 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1050750129 emmalynoneill https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1050752653 Someone saw Sam kiss Kathrine and reports it to the sherif. That night men came and burned down the school house and Trout Walker killed Sam the Onion Man. (Sachar )]]> 2021-01-04 03:50:55 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1050752653 emmalynoneill https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1050756557 Kathrine shot the sharif and gave him the kiss the he ever so wanted. Since then she hase been known as Kissin' Kate Barlow. (Sachar )]]> 2021-01-04 03:54:16 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1050756557 emmalynoneill https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1056664353 In the book Holes the auther uses imagery to discribe parts in the novel. One of these exaples is, "I think he is a mole and eats the dirt." He uses this sentens to show that Zero is a really fast digger, so the boys think he just eats the dirt. (29)]]> 2021-01-05 17:47:10 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1056664353 emmalynoneill https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1056667545  In the book, Sam’s onions were supposedly grown from a magic garden and he would use them to make medication, lotions, syrups and ointments. “After they got over their illness, no one could be sure, not even Doc Hawthorn, which of the two treatments had done the trick,” (108 Sachar). Sam was a great character and was treated wrong for something he couldn’t control, when they killed Sam they lost the “magic” onions along with so many other things.]]> 2021-01-05 17:47:49 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1056667545 emmalynoneill https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1061251469 Stanley tries to take the water truck to Zero but crashes into a hole and ends up having to run into the lake to find him. He eventualy finds Zero taking cover under the Mary Lou boat, but when Stanley finds him he has eaten so much Sploosh that he can barly walk. Once Stanley and Zero make it to the top of God's thumb they stay there till Zero can fully heal. "Stanley lay in the meadow looking up at the giant rock tower" (Sachar 173)]]> 2021-01-06 21:51:57 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1061251469 emmalynoneill https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1061264875 Zero runs away and the Warden replases him with Twich a kid that went to jail for joyriding. "Twitch was assigned to Zero's bed, and Zero's crate" (Sachar 145).]]> 2021-01-06 21:59:28 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1061264875 emmalynoneill https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1061385343 Stanley and Zero go to the hole where they found Kate Barlows lipstick tube. When they got there they found a chest with millioins of dollars. The Warden finds them but there are a tone of yellow-spotted lizards around the boys. "There were eight lizards in the hole with Stanley" (Sachar 211).]]> 2021-01-06 23:08:25 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1061385343 emmalynoneill https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1061415419 Stanley takes Zero back to his family. And his dad finaly figures out the mixture to remove the stink from sneakers. "But he invented a product to remove foot odor" (Sachar 225).]]> 2021-01-06 23:35:56 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1061415419 emmalynoneill https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1065455289 After Years of being one of the most feared outlaws in Texas Kate Barlow reaturns to Camp Green Lake and baries her loot. Trout Walker finds her and asks over and over were the treasure was. She told him that he can dig for hundrends of years and he would never find it. A yellow spotted lizaard bit her ankle killing Kathrine Barlow with her diying words being, "Start digging" (Sachar 123). ]]> 2021-01-07 22:46:33 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1065455289 emmalynoneill https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1065471676 Sachar really uses imagery when it comes to gods thumb. Becuase not only is it the place that Stanley and Zero were able to survive but it was Sams magic onion gardin. "He was in a field of greenish whit flowers that seemed to extend all the way around Big Thumb" (Sachar 174).]]> 2021-01-07 22:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalynoneill/36k395b0nxoh2hod/wish/1065471676