Holes
2024.11.7-11.28 (22days, 233p)
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- Yearling Books
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- 2000.05.09
1. Camp Green Lake
Contrary to its name, there’s no lake in Camp Green Lake—just a vast, barren desert. The only shade comes from a hammock strung between two trees, but the campers are never allowed to use it. Unless bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard (which is certain death), they have no other relief from the sun.
2. Who ends up at Camp Green Lake?
Bad boys. When asked, “Would you rather go to jail or Camp Green Lake?” Stanley chose the camp.
3. The Yelnats Family
The Yelnats have a family curse brought on by Stanley’s no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. Bad luck follows them everywhere. Stanley Yelnats IV is no exception—he’s completely innocent. He just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Poor and hopeful, Stanley imagined a summer camp like the ones his wealthier friends enjoyed. But upon arriving at Green Lake, all he saw was a desert.
4. Meeting Mr. Sir
After an 8-hour journey, Stanley arrives at Camp Green Lake and meets Mr. Sir, who gives him two orange jumpsuits. Mr. Sir also tells him he’s welcome to run away, but warns that he’ll run out of food within three days. He advises Stanley to get used to being thirsty.
5. Assigned to Tent D
Stanley is assigned to Tent D, while the counselor, Mr. Pendanski, stays in Tent F. Pendanski warns Stanley to never cross the Warden. He introduces Stanley to his fellow campers, who use nicknames among themselves:
- Alan: Squid (White)
- Rex: X-Ray (Black)
- Lewis: Barf Bag (hospitalized and not expected to return)
- Jose: Magnet
- Theodore: Armpit
- Ricky: Zigzag
- Zero
6. How Stanley Got Here
When asked by the campers why he’s here, Stanley explains it’s because he stole sneakers. They laugh and don’t believe him, thinking it’s too minor an offense. One humiliating day at school, a pair of sneakers, donated by a famous baseball player to help the homeless, suddenly fell from the sky. Thinking it was fate, Stanley grabbed them and ran, only to be caught by the police. His honest confession only made him seem more suspicious, leading him to choose Camp Green Lake over jail after being pressured by the judge to make a quick decision.
7. Digging Holes
Stanley starts digging holes. Each hole must be as deep and wide as the shovel’s length. X-Ray wants the shortest shovel. Beneath the sun-baked, cracked ground, the dirt is slightly easier to dig. Stanley develops a blister on his right thumb. Although he works hard, he’s slow. Mr. Sir warns him that if he continues at his current pace, he’ll end up working during the hottest part of the day.
Meanwhile, Stanley recalls the story of his great-great-grandfather, Elya Yelnats, who was cursed for failing to carry out a task. Elya had fallen in love with a woman and was supposed to carry a piglet up a mountain every day. If he failed, he and his descendants would be unlucky forever. Elya, at 15 and in love, didn’t take it seriously. Wanting to avoid smelling like a pig, he once bathed in the stream himself, causing the pig and its rival to weigh the same.
7. Elya’s Fate
Elya wasn’t chosen and, heartbroken, boarded a ship to America as a deckhand. There, he fell in love with another woman, to whom he confessed the piglet curse. A year later, they had a son, Yelnats. Back at the camp, Stanley finally manages to dig his first hole and feels an inexplicable sense of accomplishment.
8. Yellow-Spotted Lizards
The story introduces the yellow-spotted lizards, describing their appearance, their deadly nature, and how they thrive in the holes. This foreshadows their role in the story.
9. First Hole Completed
Exhausted after digging his first hole, Stanley takes a cold shower, which feels heavenly. When he mumbles a response to a question from Lump (another camper), he ends up provoking him. However, Stanley’s new friends step in and protect him by calling him “Caveman.” While writing a reassuring letter to his parents, Stanley is interrupted by Zero, who asks about the stolen sneakers. Later, during dinner, Stanley realizes his friends had been calling him “Caveman” all along.
10. The Second Day
Stanley wakes up sore and soon understands what the other boys meant when they said the second day is even harder. He learns strategies to survive, such as drinking water just before the truck arrives to refill their canteens. While digging, Stanley finds a fish fossil and remembers the Warden’s promise to reward anyone who finds something interesting. Excited, he calls Pendanski, but Pendanski dismisses it, saying the Warden wouldn’t care about a fossil.
11. Stanley is frustrated when X-Ray approaches him, asking him to hand over anything he finds from now on. Stanley is amazed to see that X-Ray is the leader, despite not being the biggest in the group. It suddenly dawns on Stanley that he is actually the biggest among them. He feels happy to be called “Caveman” because it shows that Group D acknowledges him as a friend. While digging his hole, he imagines all of them going back to school together to stand up to Derrick, who used to bully him.
12. When Stanley returned to the compound, he saw Mr. Pendanski and his friends sitting in a circle. He joined them. Mr. Pendanski asked each of them about their dreams for when they returned to society, hoping to encourage them. Stanley wondered what he would say if Mr. Pendanski asked him. However, Pendanski asked him a different question: “Who do you think is responsible for you being here at the camp?” Stanley answered by mentioning his grandfather, which made all his friends laugh. But Mr. Pendanski didn’t smile; instead, he told Stanley that he alone was responsible for ending up at the camp and needed to take responsibility for his own life.
13. It had been about two weeks since Stanley started digging holes. His skin had toughened, and he had lost track of the days of the week. One day, Stanley found a gold tube with one closed end. He hesitated to give it to X-Ray, who was supposed to receive anything found. But when Zigzag noticed that Stanley had discovered something, Stanley showed the tube to X-Ray, suggesting that he show it to Mom the next day to get a full day off. In return, X-Ray moved Stanley up one place in the line.
14. After breakfast, while the boys were digging, X-Ray shouted that he had found something. He gave the tube to Mr. Pendanski, who advised X-Ray not to work too hard on his hole. A little while later, Pendanski returned with the Warden, a tall woman dressed in a cowboy outfit. She praised X-Ray and ordered Mr. Pendanski to fill everyone’s canteens. However, they were already filled because he had refilled them just before she arrived. When Mr. Pendanski tried to explain, she asserted her authority, giving him the choice to either fill the canteens again or dig the holes himself.
15. The Warden ordered Group D to dig in the spot where X-Ray claimed to have found the gold tube. Stanley discovered that digging 6-foot holes with a partner was much easier than digging 5-foot holes alone. He was surprised that the Warden knew all their names, and his friends explained that there were many microphones around the camp. This was why X-Ray hadn’t wanted to talk about the tube during breakfast. Stanley glanced back at the hole where he had actually found the gold tube.
16. The next morning, the Warden returned to supervise the group, showing less and less patience. While digging, Stanley couldn’t stop thinking about the gold tube with the initials “K.B.” and wondered how he could reveal the real spot to the Warden without getting X-Ray or the others in trouble. Back at the compound, Mr. Pendanski gave Stanley a letter from his mother. He opened it when he thought the others were gone and laughed at his mom’s words. However, Zero was nearby and asked Stanley why he was laughing. Stanley explained it was because of a nursery rhyme his mom mentioned, but Zero didn’t understand. Stanley then felt embarrassed to be talking about nursery rhymes at the camp.
17. The Warden grew increasingly impatient, so Group D had to keep digging much longer than before. X-Ray’s hole had even expanded and merged with two other holes. While Stanley continued digging, Zigzag accidentally hit Stanley’s face with a shovel. Stanley ended up with a bloody nose, but Mr. Sir only put a bandage on him and made him return to work. When he got back, Zigzag told him to shovel up “his dirt,” referring to the dirt created when Zigzag’s shovel hit Stanley’s face.
18. Finally, the group was moved to a new spot where each boy could dig his own hole, five feet deep and five feet wide. This was a relief for Stanley, even though he was still the slowest digger in the group. After changing clothes, he began writing a letter to his parents in the tent, hoping to avoid being teased by the others. However, Zero came up to him, which made Stanley uncomfortable, and he asked Zero not to read over his shoulder. Zero then revealed that he wanted Stanley to teach him how to read. Stanley refused firmly because he needed to save his energy after a hard day’s work. Over the past several weeks, not only had Stanley’s body toughened, but his heart had hardened as well.
19. Magnet stole a sack of sunflower seeds from Mr. Sir, and they passed the sack in the same order as they usally lined up to get their water. When it was Stanley’s turn, Zigzag hadn’t rolled up the top, and all the seeds spilled into Stanley’s hole. Knowing that Mr. Sir would probably return soon, Stanley hurried to cover the seeds with his shovel, but Mr. Sir found the sack in his hole anyway. Stanley took the blame, saying he stole the sack and ate all the seeds himself. Mr. Sir took him in the truck to see what the Warden had to say about the incident. Stanley actually felt good sitting inside the truck.
20. When Stanley arrived at the Warden’s cabin, Mr. Sir made him explain what had happened. However, Mr. Sir believed Stanley was lying to cover for the other boys. Suddenly, the Warden told Stanley to get her makeup case, which contained a special nail polish with rattlesnake venom. She tapped Stanley’s face with the wet nail, then asked Mr. Sir for his thoughts. When Mr. Sir continued talking about sunflower seeds, the Warden became irritated and struck his head with the venomous nail polish. As the venom took effect, Mr. Sir screamed. The Warden then allowed Stanley to leave, but Mr. Sir was still on the floor. Although he was terrified, the Warden reassured him that he wouldn’t die from the poison.
21. It was a long, hard walk back to his hole. He encountered a rattlesnake, but because of its rattle at the tail, he was able to run away. When he returned to his hole, it was finished. He thanked the other boys, but they told him they didn’t deserve any credit. At that moment, he noticed that Zero was still digging his hole, which was smaller than all the others.
22. When he thanked Zero and asked him why he had helped him, Zero replied that Stanley hadn’t stolen the sunflower seeds or the sneakers. Stanley decided to teach Zero how to read and began by teaching him the alphabet. Zero figured out that there were 52 letters (capital and small ones), and he would need five days to learn them. Stanley was surprised by how smart Zero was. That night, while lying on his dirty cot and reflecting on the events of the day, Stanley suddenly realized where he had seen the initials “K.B.” before—it was on his mother’s lipstick!
23. One hundred and ten years ago, Green Lake was the largest lake in Texas and home to a small town. Miss Katherine Barlow, the town’s only schoolteacher, was known for her beauty. Trout Walker, a young and foolish man and the son of the wealthiest man in the area, couldn’t believe that Miss Katherine had rejected him.
24. The next morning, Mr. Sir appeared with his grotesque, half-swollen face. Every boy in Stanley’s tent had the good sense to stay silent. However, one boy couldn’t resist and asked Mr. Sir what had happened to his face, prompting Mr. Sir to choke him. When it was time for the second water truck, driven by Mr. Sir, Stanley’s turn came. Mr. Sir poured water right next to Stanley’s canteen, leaving it empty. Frightened, Stanley knew he still had to thank him.
25. One hundred years ago, there was an onion seller named Sam, who was skilled with his hands, in the town of Green Lake. One day, Katherine asked him to fix her leaking roof. As he was fixing it, she became interested in him and began asking him to help with more repairs. When the old schoolhouse was finally transformed into a beautiful new one, she felt sad. Just then, she heard Sam calling, ‘Onions! Fresh onions!’ outside and ran to him. They shared a moment of love, lost in their own world, unaware that others were watching—including Hattie Parker, who saw it all.
26. By the end of the day, everyone in Green Lake had heard that the schoolteacher had kissed the onion picker. A mob of men and women stormed the schoolhouse and began destroying it. Katherine ran to the sheriff’s office, but he demanded a kiss from her in exchange for sparing Sam’s life—promising only to run him out of town, not hang him. Furious, she slashed his face and hurried to find Sam. They untied Sam’s boat and rowed away from the shore, but it was no match for Trout Walker’s motorized boat. Sam was shot and killed in the water, and from that moment on, not a single drop of rain fell on Green Lake. Three days after Sam’s death, Katherine shot the sheriff and gave him the kiss he had asked for, marking it with red lipstick. From then on, she became known as Kissin’ Kate Barlow, one of the most feared outlaws in the West.
27. The other boys complained about Stanley resting while Zero was digging his hole. Mr. Sir filled Stanley’s canteen, but it was probably with some kind of vile substance. Zero finally finished the alphabet and wrote his name, “Zero.” He told Stanley that he had his own real name: Hector Zeroni.
28. When Kate returned to Green Lake 20 years later, the lake had dried up, and she found no one there—only a small, lonely cabin. She stayed there for three months until, one day, Trout Walker and Linda Walker suddenly appeared. They accused her of hiding their treasure and demanded that she confess where she had buried the money. To force her to reveal the location, they made her walk barefoot across the scorching desert. But Kate said nothing. That night, as she lay on the ground, a rattlesnake slithered up to her and bit her. She died laughing and uttered her final words: “Start digging.”
29. The chapter recalls the story of how Stanley’s great-grandfather survived in the desert for 20 days. He claimed to have found refuge on a mountain he called “God’s Thumb,” which is later revealed to be significant in the story. It is revealed that Kate Barlow, the notorious outlaw, had robbed Stanley’s great-grandfather. This ties Stanley’s family history to the events at Camp Green Lake and foreshadows how the past and present might intertwine.
30. The boys were angry at Stanley for goofing around instead of digging his hole. Zigzag, who claimed that today was his birthday, picked a fight with Stanley. While Stanley stood still, waiting for the punches to stop, the situation escalated when Zero choked Zigzag by the neck. Mr. Pendanski fired a warning shot, and all the counselors, including the Warden, gathered. The Warden discovered that Stanley had been teaching Zero how to read in exchange for Zero digging part of Stanley’s holes. Mr. Pendanski mocked Zero for being “stupid,” which led Zero to hit him in the face with a shovel. Afterward, Zero ran away from the camp. The Warden ordered the counselors to guard the shower stalls, assuming Zero would return there for water.
31. Zero hadn’t returned to the camp, even though Stanley kept thinking about him. Two days later, the Warden, Mr. Sir, and Mr. Pendanski asked Stanley if he knew where Zero was. Stanley didn’t know anything, so the adults decided to erase all records of Zero, as if he had never been there.
32. Two days later, a new boy who had stolen a car was assigned to Group D. Stanley tried not to think about Zero but couldn’t help wondering if Zero was still alive and if it wasn’t too late to save him. Suddenly, Stanley opened the door of Mr. Sir’s water truck and stepped on the gas pedal. It was his first time driving, and Twitch, the new boy who arrived at the camp that day, yelled at him to shift the gear. Moments later, the airbag exploded, and Mr. Sir stared at him. Stanley quickly started running with an empty canteen.
33. Stanley decided to walk while he still had the strength to return. He walked slowly toward a big rock. The encounter with the lizards had made him very cautious. He found a sack of sunflower seeds, which he considered his lunch.
34. He had already gone halfway but couldn’t stop heading toward a large object on the lake. It was a boat in the middle of the dry, barren wasteland that was once a lake. There was a name on the back of the boat: Mary Lou. On one side of the boat, there was a pile of dirt and a tunnel leading down beneath it. Stanley shouted, “Hey!” hoping to scare whatever was inside back into hiding, but instead, he heard a weak answer.
35. Zero was in the boat. He handed a jar to Stanley; it contained the last of the sploosh, which tasted too good to resist. Suddenly, Zero bent over, seemingly in pain because of the sploosh. Stanley urged him to go back to the camp, but Zero firmly declined. Then, Stanley asked him about the mountain and how it looked. As Zero studied it, he made a fist with his right hand and extended his thumb.
36. They started walking toward Big Thumb. Giving each other thumbs-up became their way of reassuring themselves. Along the way, they encountered a cliff they had to climb to reach Big Thumb. Working together, they helped each other make it to the top.
37. They started walking toward Big Thumb. Giving each other thumbs-up became their way of reassuring themselves. Along the way, they encountered a cliff they had to climb to reach Big Thumb. Working together, they helped each other make it to the top.
38. Stanley carried Zero and climbed higher and higher. When he encountered mud, stepping on it filled him with despair. Suddenly, he realized there must be water nearby to make the soil wet. He started digging and found some water, which he poured into Zero’s mouth. Although Zero couldn’t open his eyes, his tongue stuck out, searching for a droplet. As Stanley kept digging, he uncovered a smooth, round object in the mud—an onion! They shared it together.
39. Zero confessed to Stanley that he had stolen Livingston’s shoes, which caused Stanley to be framed.
40. After eating some onions, Stanley felt strong enough to climb down the mountain and retrieve the shovel. He left Zero at the peak and started walking down the hill. When he found the shovel and the sack, he needed to rest before heading back up the mountain.
41. While they were eating the onions, they felt better and better. Zero told Stanley his story about stealing Livingston’s old shoes without realizing it because he couldn’t read the letters. This is the reason they both ended up at Camp Green Lake. After taking the shoes, Zero left them and got a new pair of sneakers.
42. Zero became strong enough to help dig the hole. Stanley was so happy that he couldn’t fall asleep, realizing that he liked himself now. He thought it must be destiny that they were there. As he reflected on many things, an even crazier idea popped into his head: to dig the hole and find some treasure.
43. They decided to go back to camp and dig the hole where Stanley had found the lipstick. While walking down the mountain and through the desert, Zero shared stories about his childhood. When Stanley navigated the wrong way, Zero corrected him, and they finally reached the camp. After waiting for the last camper to finish for the day, they climbed down into the nearby holes.
44. They started digging the hole after all the campers had gone to bed. They retrieved a metal suitcase from the hole. Just then, a bright light shone on their faces, and the Warden appeared.
45. They were at the lizards’ nest. Everyone there was terrified, except for the Warden. She didn’t care about anything else as long as she could get that suitcase. Her parents had been the ones who dug holes in search of Kate’s treasure. At that moment, Stanley could hear his heartbeat, reminding him he was still alive—at least for one more second.
46. Stanley even stood up in the hole when it was time for the campers to wake up. The counselors, except for Mr. Sir and the Warden, had gone back to the camp to supervise them. Standing up was harder than walking, so Stanley leaned against the side of the hole, thinking the lizards didn’t care about him.
47. Stanley even stood up in the hole when it was time for the campers to wake up. The counselors, except for Mr. Sir and the Warden, had gone back to the camp to supervise them. Standing up was harder than walking, so Stanley leaned against the side of the hole, thinking the lizards didn’t care about him.
48. Stanley’s lawyer, Ms. Morengo, defended both him and Zero because there was no file for Hector. When Stanley reunited with his friends, Squid asked him to tell his mom that he was sorry. Ms. Morengo then said to Zero, “Come with us.”
49. The reason the lizards hadn’t bitten them was that they didn’t like the smell of onions. While sitting in the backseat of Ms. Morengo’s BMW, they turned on the air conditioner with all the windows open because of their odor. Stanley’s dad had invented something new, which caught the attention of Ms. Morengo. As she got involved in their business, she learned about Stanley’s case. After investigating, she discovered that Stanley was innocent. She gave them his father’s invention, a product that eliminates foot odor. It smelled like peaches, and for the first time in over a hundred years, heavy rain fell since Katherine’s death.
50. Stanley and Zero’s lives are transformed after finding the treasure. Stanley reunites with his family, who becomes wealthy through their invention, while Zero reconnects with his mother. Camp Green Lake is shut down, and nature begins to heal. Both boys move on to brighter futures, their friendship having played a key role in their success.
Lessons from Holes:
1. Friendship and Loyalty Matter: Stanley and Zero’s bond shows how supporting each other can lead to overcoming challenges.
2. Perseverance Pays Off: Stanley’s determination and willingness to help Zero lead to freedom and a better life.
3. Breaking Cycles: The story emphasizes how courage and action can break negative patterns, such as Stanley’s family curse.
4. Justice and Redemption: The book highlights the importance of fairness and how past wrongs can eventually be made right.
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