Holes 内容简介.doc

Plot At the beginning of the story, Stanley Yelnats, a 13-year-old boy who is supposedly affected by a family curse, has been wrongly accused of stealing the shoes of the baseball player Clyde Livingston from a charity auction. As punishment for this crime, he is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention and correctional facility where convicts of similar age are forced to dig holes to build their character. Warden Walker, real granddaughter of Trout Walker, is actually looking for a buried treasure that outlaw Katherine Kissin Kate Barlow stole from Stanleys great-grandfather. Years ago, Stanleys family got cursed by Madame Zeroni, a fortune-teller and ancestor, due to a promise not fulfilled by Elya Yelnats, Stanleys great-great-grandfather, more popularly known in the novel as a no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather. Later in the story, the Warden’s decision that the boys dig more extensively for treasure leads to several dramatic events, later causing inmate Hector Zero Zeroni, a descendant of Madame Zeroni and one of Stanley’s better friends, to flee into the desert. Stanley, in search of Zero, finds him in a tunnel dug underneath an abandoned rowboat bearing the name Mary Lou, the donkey of Sam the onion man over a century before. Zero had been living on jars of very old spiced peaches that he had found in the boat, which he called Sploosh. Upon seeing a mountain resembling a human fist giving the Thumbs signal/thumbs up sign, Stanley recalls the story of his ancestor Stanley Yelnats I, who finds refuge on God’s thumb, which Zero and Stanley climb in search of water. Atop the river, Stanley discovers a field of onions, which the boys eat, and a pool of groundwater, which they drink, and during their contentment Stanley sings to Zero that they should return to Camp Green Lake to find the buried treasure. Upon returning, Zero steals some water and food from the kitchens while Stanley looks for the buried treasure. At this they succeed, bu