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A Study Guide for Louis Sachar's "Holes" - Gale
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Holes
Louis Sachar
1998
Introduction
Holes, published in 1998, has become one of the most frequently taught young-adult novels in American middle and high schools. It was the first book to win both the National Book Award for Young People's Literature (1998) and the Newbery Medal (1999), which recognizes the most distinguished contribution to American children's literature; as of 2010, no other book had captured both awards. Holes has been adapted as both a film and a stage play, and has sold more than five million copies in at least fifteen languages, including English, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese.
The story deals with Stanley Yelnats, a fifteen-year-old boy who is sent to Camp Green Lake, a boot camp for wayward boys, for a crime he did not commit. At the camp, boys spend hours each day in the hot Texas sun, digging large holes in the desert in a program that is supposed to build character. As the novel tells what happens to Stanley there, it weaves in tall tales featuring the ancestors of several of the present-day characters. Holes is striking for its humor, and also for its insightful portrayal of young men who need a second chance, of the power of friendship, and of the importance of family.
Author Biography
Sachar was born in East Meadow, New York, on March 20, 1954. An only child, he moved with his parents to Orange County, California, when he was nine years old, and graduated from high school there. He was a strong student, good at math and excited about reading and writing. He spent one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, but when his father died, he transferred to the University of California at Berkeley to be nearer to his mother. At one point in his college career, Sachar needed three credits to satisfy a requirement, and he signed up to be a teacher's aide because it looked like an easy way to complete the credits. He had no particular interest in teaching or in young people when he began, but he took to the children quickly, and they liked him. Sachar began writing a series of humorous stories about schoolchildren, naming the characters after kids at the school where he worked. Shortly after graduating from college, he learned that his first book, Sideways Stories from Wayside School (1978), had been accepted for publication.
By this time, Sachar was enrolled in law school at the University of California at San Francisco. He completed his law degree in 1980 and began practicing law part-time in 1981, but he continued writing, and tried to decide which way his career path would take him. In 1983, he visited Texas as part of a promotional tour for his second book, and met Clara Askew, a school counselor, whom he married in 1985. The couple have one child, a daughter named Sherre, born in 1987. They spent their early years as a couple in San Francisco; Carla continued to work in education, and her husband quit his law practice to write full-time. His fourth novel, There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom (1987), won several awards, and established Sachar as an important writer of humorous and insightful books about middle-school-aged misfits. He has written several books for children, including five books in the Wayside School series and eight novels about a third-grade boy named Marvin Redpost.
In 1990, the Sachar family moved to Austin, Texas, where they lived as of 2010. It was there, faced with the