Holes summary

I'm back with the summary of the novel 'Holes' that i wrote, s novel written by Luis Sachar! (Warning: this contains spoilers)


Stanley Yalnets is a teenager boy from a poor family who has bad luck due to a cursed that’s given to his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. He got sent to a camp for bad boys called ‘Camp Green Lake’ that is located at a dried lake in ‘green lake’ a dead town for the punishment to the crime that he didn’t commit. Stanley’s family used to be a pretty rich family until one day the Kissin’ Kate Barlow stole everything from his great grandfather.

At the camp, he and the other boys are forced to dig holes everyday and only allowed to take a rest after they done with digging their holes, got stung by a scorpion, find something interesting under the ground or got bitten by a yellow spotted lizard: But being bitten by yellow spotted lizard is the worst scenario because the person that got bitten will always die in a slow and painful way. Stanley found a Golden tube with ‘K B’ written on it in a hole that he dig.

one hundred and ten years ago, green lake used to be a beautiful place until one day Sam, the union seller broke the law and got executed, since the day sam died, rain never falls in green lake until now, his close friend ‘Katherinee’ got driven mad after his dead and become the most feared outlaw in the town called ‘Kissin’ Kate Barlow’ that always kiss the victim she killed.

As time goes by, Stanley started to get along with the boys in the camp, he got a new close friend named ‘Zero’. The two make a deal that seems to make another boy got jealous with them that started a fight and make the warden to told Stanley and Zero doesn’t allow them to continue the deal anymore.

One day Zero ran from the camp and Stanley decided to search him to save him because it’s impossible for a person run from camp green lake because the water source is really far. But i turns out that Zero survived even in the lack of water and food, Stanley and Zero stays at the dessert for many days, they are survived for a week because they eat the unions that they found at the dessert at a place that used to be Sam’s union field one hundred and ten years ago, at the end, they decided to walk back to the camp to and dig Stanley’s hole where he found the ‘K B’ golden tube because there might be a treasure hidden under it that belongs Kissin’ Kate Barlow.

They found a suitcase at the hole they dig, and the warden tries to take the suitcase with her, but at the same time, Stanley’s lawyer came to declare that Stanley is innocent and to tell the warden to hand the suitcase to Stanley that seems originally belonged to Kissin’ Kate Barlow.

At the end of the book, Stanley’s mother told him that the curse of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-great-grandfather had never ever existed, she even doubt if his great great great grandfather ever stole a pig.
His father found a way to cure foot door

and zero reunited with his mother that he never meet for years.

And that's the summary, thank you for reading!