April /25/2010
Dear Everybody,
I recently read the book Holes by Louis Sachar. I thought it was an amazing book and I rated it 10 out of 10. This book is very different from any other books. It’s not about sports or drama or anything. First I thought the book was going to be boring because of the cover but after I read the back of the cover it got my interest up. I’m sure you’ll like this book.
The main character is Stanley Yelnats, a boy who accused for stealing a pair of expensive shoes worn by a star. He lived in California until he had to go to a place called “Camp Green Lake” for bad kids. Camp Green Lake is in Texas and it’s isn’t a lake at all. That was over a long time over ago and now it is just a dry flat waste land. There are not very many animals lives there but if you come to animals it comes to rattlesnakes, scorpions and the scariest animal called yellow-spotted lizard. As you know how the rattlesnakes and scorpions kills us but the yellow-spotted lizards is very different. The yellow-spotted lizards like to live in holes, which makes shades from the sun and protection from their predatory birds. They have strong and powerful legs and can leap out of a very deep hole to attack their prey.
I don’t really get why they called yellow-spotted lizard but a lot of people don’t believe in them. If one bites you it doesn’t make a difference. It’s kind of weird that they named the lizard after their yellow spots. Each lizard has exactly eleven yellow spots, but the spots are hard to see on its yellow-green body. The lizard is from six to ten inches long and has big red eyes. Actually the eyes are yellow and the skin around it is red and it also has black teeth and milky white tongue. If you’ve ever been close enough to see the yellow spots, you are probably dead. And by the way, the Warden is way scarier.
I like how the author made up a very good story, it’s unexpected. You go to the camp to dig holes and you don’t know why. You just dig five feet wide and five feet deep hole each day. You do it for eighteen months and you get to release from that camp to go home.
I like this passage “She stepped toward him and struck him across the face. Mr. Sir stared at her. He had three long red marks slanting across the left side of his face. Stanley didn’t know if the redness was caused by her nail polish or his blood. It took a moment for the venom to sink in. Suddenly, Mr. Sir screamed and clutched his face with both hands. He let himself fall over, rolling off the hearth and onto the rug.”
I like this passage for two reasons. First is it shows the Warden is a very scary person. She doesn’t care about anything and she would do anything to a person if she’s mad. Second, I wonder why Mr. Sir didn’t call the police after this. It’s like he’s obey the Warden.
I don’t get why the other doesn’t tell the other kids who in different area just the one in D. In the D group there are five kids and include Stanley is six. Magnet, Armpit, Zigzag, X-Ray and Zero and Stanley’s nickname is Caveman. They were very rude to him when he first came to the camp but later after they were friendly. Stanley’s favorite is Zero. He wasn’t being mean to Stanley when he came. He doesn’t talk very much and he doesn’t know how to read. One day he came and asked Stanley to help him and Stanley helped him. They became good friends after.
I really like this book. I only told you like 1/3 of all the things I needed to tell you. There were many other things to tell but it’ll ruin it. So you just have to read this book to find out. The other book in the series called Small Steps. It’s also a very good book but I like this one way more! This is one of my favorite out of 10. I hope it’s one of yours too after you finished reading this awesome book by Louis Sachar.
Sincerely,
Phat
