Text to self - Holes
I'm reading Holes by Louis Sachar. This book is about Stanley Yelnats IV and how his family thinks they have a curse. This curse is from their no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. Build up of this story is when Stanley is walking home from school and a pair of shoes fell from the bridge above him. These shoes were not ordinary shoes, these were name brand shoes, on an auction and the money he got was going to go to homeless kids. These shoes started at the auction for $5000. A patrol car pulled up next and him and asked where he was running, meanwhile the police officer took the shoes and took a call on a radio. Shortly after he arrested Stanley. He chooses to go to a camp at court and the story shows how life is in this camp and what really this camp is for. One of my connection that I have made is how the book explained how Stanley Yelnats was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I knew someone who went to juvenile prison for a few days for something he ...