In fact, she is the very reason he came back, so clearly, he's feeling the same way. He comes back after 8 years, and all she does is think about him and want to be with him. Spoiler ahead - And the most frustrating thing was that the author has built this whole story around a relationship the main character had with a childhood friend whom she loves more than anyone else. NOTHING happened! So why is this the defining moment of her life? Why does it make her start binge eating when she thinks about it? Finally, at the end of the book, you find out. you get little pieces of that story as mini-flashbacks, but she doesn't reveal the whole thing, to keep you in suspense, I guess. I just wasn't sympathetic to the character at all, and I felt like the author was shoving it down my throat that I should sympathize with this poor girl who has had it so hard.Īnd through the whole book, she keeps alluding to this deep, dark secret thing that happened to her as a child. I kept thinking I would start liking this book, but I never did.
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I do this for a variety of reasons, but mainly motivation. It took me a year and a half to write Holes, and I never told anyone anything about it during all that time. "I never talk about a book until it is finished. In a parallel story about Stanley's "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather," the mystery of the curse is unveiled and Stanley, in his efforts to help a friend, suddenly finds himself in control of his own destiny and the fate of his unlucky family. He is soon faced with a group of unhappy, unaccepting campers (inmates) and an evil warden who uses the boys to dig holes in search of buried treasure.Īs the summer progresses, Stanley makes some startling discoveries about himself, the true meaning of friendship, and the ancient curse that has haunted his family for generations. Having never attended summer camp, Stanley naively believes this to be a new opportunity. Stanley Yelnats, falsely arrested for stealing a pair of sneakers, is sentenced to serve time at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility in the middle of a Texas desert. In this funny yet poignant story, a boy embarks on a personal journey that changes his life, as he spends the summer paying for a crime he didn't commit. Similarly, “Sex Appeal” is narrated by a girl watching her older cousin primp for a date only to realize that she herself is the lecherous man’s lust object-a discovery Berlin presents with both a sense of surprise and foreboding. The title story, for instance, balances wry commentary about housecleaning work (“never make friends with cats”) and deadpan observation (“I clean their coke mirror with Windex”) with a sad, thrumming back story. 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