Reading Journal Blog Entry 2
Characterization Stanley Yelnats First of all I have to say that it amazes me that his last name is his first name simply spelled backwards. Besides that, Stanley is the protagonist of Holes. He is tall and overweight and also not very popular. He is often bullied by his classmates especially by Derrick Dune. He often imagines how he become good friends with Zero, Squid, X-Ray, Magnet, Zigzag and Armpit and how they beat up Derrick Dune with him. His nickname in the Camp Green Lake is "Caveman". His family is cursed since his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather did not carry the old woman up to the mountain with the legendary spring. So he always has bad luck. While Stanley was walking, a pair of shoes had fallen from a freeway overpass, and hit him on the head. A police car pulled him over and took the shoes. Stanley later found out that the shoes belonged to Clyde Livingston and had been donated to a homeless shelter to raise money. Stanley was con...