【精品文档】如有侵权，请联系网站删除，仅供学习与交流Holes 内容简介.精品文档.PlotAt the beginning of the story, Stanley Yelnats, a 13-year-old boy who is supposedly affected by a family curse, has been wrongly accused of stealing the shoes of the baseball player Clyde Livingston from a charity auction. As punishment for this crime, he is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention and correctional facility where convicts of similar age are forced to dig holes to build their character. Warden Walker, real granddaughter of Trout Walker, is actually looking for a buried treasure that outlaw Katherine Kissin Kate Barlow stole from Stanleys great-grandfather. Years ago, Stanleys family got cursed by Madame Zeroni, a fortune-teller and ancestor, due to a promise not fulfilled by Elya Yelnats, Stanleys great-great-grandfather, more popularly known in the novel as a no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather.Later in the story, the Wardens decision that the boys dig more extensively for treasure leads to several dramatic events, later causing inmate Hector Zero Zeroni, a descendant of Madame Zeroni and one of Stanleys better friends, to flee into the desert. Stanley, in search of Zero, finds him in a tunnel dug underneath an abandoned rowboat bearing the name Mary Lou, the donkey of Sam the onion man over a century before. Zero had been living on jars of very old spiced peaches that he had found in the boat, which he called Sploosh. Upon seeing a mountain resembling a human fist giving the Thumbs signal/thumbs up sign, Stanley recalls the story of his ancestor Stanley Yelnats I, who finds refuge on Gods thumb, which Zero and Stanley climb in search of water.Atop the river, Stanley discovers a field of onions, which the boys eat, and a pool of groundwater, which they drink, and during their contentment Stanley sings to Zero that they should return to Camp Green Lake to find the buried treasure. Upon returning, Zero steals some water and food from the kitchens while Stanley looks for the buried treasure. At this they succeed, but are apprehended by the Warden and the camp staff, and become surrounded by a group of lethal yellow-spotted lizards. Because the boys have consumed onions, the lizards do not bite them. Unable to leave the hole they occupy, they remain in place until the next morning, during which an attorney arrives requesting Stanleys release. When the warden demands the suitcase, Zero indicates the name Stanley Yelnats written on it, its contents being the jewels, deeds, stocks and promissory notes stolen from Stanley Yelnats the first.Protagonist Stanley IV then uses the bonds to buy a new house for his family, and Zero hires a team of investigators to find his missing mother; meanwhile, the drought at Green Lake is replaced by rainfall, as if in response to Stanleys fulfilment of his ancestors promise (a suggestion left purposely ambiguous by the narration). In a final scene, Clyde Livingston, along with the Yelnats and Zeroni families, celebrates the success of Stanleys fathers antidote to foot odor, composed of preserved and fermented spiced peaches and named Sploosh by Zero. The warden is forced to sell Camp Green Lake to the state government, who turns it into a Girl Scout camp, a coincidence since Mr. Sir, a head of the camp, told the campers that this isnt a Girl Scout camp, referring to the backbreaking digging. Then they began to like Mr.Sir.SettingHoles takes place at Camp Green Lake in Texas. The town used to be by the largest lake in the state, but became a dry lake-bed after Sam was killed on the lake 110 years earlier. However, after Stanley, the great-great-grandson of Elya, carried Zero, a descendant of Madame Zeroni up to the mountaintop, he unknowingly broke the curse that had haunted the Yelnats for generations by singing the lullaby to Zero.CharactersStanley YelnatsStanley is the main character in Holes. Stanley is white and overweight. He is from a poor family and lives with his mother and father. He doesnt have any siblings. Before being sent to Camp Green Lake, Stanley lived a normal life, except he was bullied at school by Derrick Dunne, and had no friends. He gets sent to Camp Green Lake because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time: the police thought he had stolen a pair of shoes belonging to a baseball player from a charity auction for the people at the shelter. At Camp Green Lake he lives in D Tent with X-Ray, Armpit, Squid, Zig-zag, Zero, and Magnet. His closest friend at Camp is Zero. Stanley teaches Zero to read and write. In his free time at Camp he writes letters to his Mom and he receives letters from her. Stanley is a nice, young, and friendly person. He does not fight like the other boys at camp do and he does as he is told most of the time. He is extremely cautious about the sides in Tent D and never got on either sides wrong sides.Hector Zero ZeroniHector Zeroni is one of the boys from