Holes by Louis Sachar AN ANALYTICAL ESSAY By Keely Whent Year 9 It is said that if you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy. How does the author use the codes of characterisation to create an unlikely hero? Stanley Yelnats is often teased at school due to him being overweight. He doesn’t have any friends, his family are poor, his self-confidence has hit rock bottom and his family live under the effects of a family curse. Life couldn’t get any worse until he is charged and wrongly convicted for stealing a pair of shoes that he just picked up off the ground. Bad boys are sent to jail or Camp Green Lake. Camp Green Lake is hot, dry and the days consist of digging 5 by 5 by 5 holes. Stanley needs a shovel. This is a story about change and how Stanley evolves through his experiences. “Stanley weighed three times as much as the other boy Mrs. Bell wrote the ratio on the board, 3:1, unaware of how much embarrassment she had caused”. This is how we are introduced to Stanley at the beginning of the story, a fat kid that even the teachers made cruel remarks about. His confidence is extremely low but he is not depressed. Stanley
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