Overcoming Problems

Author's Note: I wrote about Stanley figuring out how to fix problems and stand up for himself because i think a lot of kids need to make the decision help themselves and not get bullied. 

Before getting caught in the wrong place at the wrong time Stanley was bullied every single day of his life for being a nerd and overweight. In the book “Holes” by Louis Sachar, Stanley Yelnats, the main character learns how to stick up for himself and fix his problems. He Doesn’t want to be pushed around and stepped on from bullies anymore so he decides to help himself. 

While walking home from school one day out of nowhere shoes came flying out of the sky. After walking  with them for a while two cops drove by and picked Stanley up to go to jail. Stanley had no clue what just happened and why he was going to jail. He got a choice to either sit in jail or go Camp Green Lake. He thought it was the camps his mom offered to sign him up in the summer but was to afraid to get bullied there, but he decided it was better than jail so he went.

Getting to that camp was different what he thought it was going to be. There was no lake, no shade, no nothing. He was scared he would face the same bullying and torture he got every other day back in his home. The head guard told him that he needed dig a 5 by 5 hole every day.  Mr. Sir told him it will build character to make a better man. Stanley thought you could never get good character by digging a hole. After being there though he did build character and even stood up to a bully one day in the cafeteria when a bigger man tried to take his food.  

After him and his friend Zero tried to run away from the tortures camp they found a mountain named “God’s Thump, that was thought to be filled with water and a bunch of wild onions that would recuperate the young boys health. Before retrieving the wonderful water on top of the mountain he had to carry Zero up the mountain to recover and sustain health because he had been without water for much longer then Stanley. Over the month at Camp Green Lake he lost weight, became smarter, and knew how to deal and concur his problems.After being pushed around all those years Stanley was going to seek revenge and the people who have made his life miserable all the years.

In the beginning of the book Stanley and the Yelnats thought they were all cursed for a old ancestor, but at the end Stanley broke that curse by bringing a Zeroni family member which was Zero up God’s Thumb and let him drink the water. Before then Stanley would never have the courage or even the strength to do what he did. Right after he brought Zero up God's Thumb good things started to happen to Stanley such as finding the buried treasure, go home with Zero, and even got to adopt Zero into their family. Stanley changed through the book because he had a choice, either be picked on and bullied or become different and stand up for himself. He made the right choice by sticking up for himself and learning how to fix his problems.