Holes - Climax

Holes

By

Louis Sachar

Climax

The book that I am reading for my book report is called “Holes” by Louis Sachar. This book won the John Newbery Medal.

The climax of this book is when the boys in Camp Green Lake get into a fight because of Zero, one of the boys in Camp Green Lake. It all started when Zero and Stanley  made a deal that Stanley would teach Zero how to read and write but Zero to dig part of Stanley’s hole each and every day so Stanley would have energy left to teach Zero to read and write. It was going well every time with this deal until the other boys in Camp Green Lake had realized that Zero was digging Stanley’s hole. The other boys which we Zigzag, X-ray, Armpit and Squid complained to Mr.Pendanski, one of the counselors about Zero digging Stanley instead of Stanley digging his own hole for the day. The boys got into a fight because no one (even the Warden, the owner) believed that Zero had learnt anything from the days Stanley was teaching him.

After the fight, Zero hit Mr.Pendaski with a shovel and ran away from Camp Green Lake that night. When the Warden found out that Zero has run away from the camp, she told all the counselors to delete all of Zero’s files and forget that Zero was ever at Camp Green Lake. Zero running away from Camp Green Lake can be jeopardizing. He was just a young boy, he couldn’t have found water anywhere, no shelter anywhere, so how is going to stay alive, Stanley was very worried about Zero which led to Stanley also running away from Camp Green Lake. While he was running away, he was very tired; he had no water in his canteen. It was the hottest part of the day when he ran away so that made it even harder to find Zero. Stanley did not know where to go or whether he should continue or not. While he was walking, he spotted a boat which he found Zero in. He was very happy to find Zero because he thought that Zero would be dead by the time he finds him. Zero survived by drinking a type of liquid that he found under the boat in plenty of jars. Zero called it sploosh. Zero’s body was very sick which made his stomach hurt. He would fall on the ground, clutching his stomach. That made Stanley very worried.

Zero didn’t want to go back to Camp Green Lake, so Zero and Stanley went to the “Big Thumb” which was pretty far away. It was a long journey to The Big Thumb. The Big Thumb is a very big rock where Stanley and Zero think that they would find water, food, and refuge. On the way, they had to climb mountains and walk very long which made it very hard for Zero because he was so sick. They fed themselves by digging into holes for water and eating plenty of onions they found on their way.