Holes biography

Stanley Yelnats IV is an overweight teenage boy from a poor family, whose future fortune depends on his inventor father discovering the secret to curing bad foot odor. The Yelnats family is said to be cursed: Stanley's great-great-grandfather did not honor a promise he made to an old woman with magical powers, and misfortune has followed him and his descendants ever since.

Stanley is unlucky enough to be wrongly accused of stealing baseball star Clyde "Sweet Feet" Livingston's shoes, and instead of being locked up in prison, he is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention and correction facility in the middle of the desert. After a long and lonely bus ride, Stanley arrives at the camp and meets the lazy and nasty Mr.

Sir , one of the camp supervisors. He is warned to watch out for Warden Walker.

Holes summary

Stanley also meets Mr. Pendanski , another camp supervisor. He is assigned to Tent D, where he befriends his tent mates and slowly learns the ropes of surviving in the harsh conditions of the camp: terrible food, limited shower time, an uncomfortable bed. Stanley becomes particularly good friends with a small but tough boy named Zero , whom we later discover is Hector Zeroni, a descendant of the woman who cursed the Yelnats family.

Stanley and the other boys are forced to dig a hole every day, five feet deep and five feet wide.