Digging Holes to Become Good Boys? I don't think so.. (First Impressions 2)

          

            ‘You are to dig hole each day, including Saturdays and Sundays.

              …

            You thirsty?Well you better get used to it.You’re going to be thirsty 

            for the next eighteen months.’

                   
         

These quotations are from the part, where ‘Mr. Sir’ explains Stanley the rules of Camp Green Lake. While reading this part I felt really bad for these boys. Because they are nearly at my age and I can’t even imagine myself in this situation, digging holes everyday in the hot sun. Even though they are all there for the bad crimes they have committed (well, actually Stanley didn’t even commit a crime) I’m not sure if it’s a good way to make them ‘useful and hardworking members of society.’ If you take these‘bad boys’ and isolate them it will probably make them asocial.  Separating them from the community would make them feel estranged. Doing this to these young boys could cause big problems in their future life and it could cause big traumas in their souls. Of course I am not an expert and I can’t understand the situation exactly without any experience but this is how I see it.

Here is the trailer of a little play made out of 'Holes' by Northwestern University. You can see the characters in the book here.

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Here we go (First Impressions)

Hello everyone! Actually I find blogs very pointless and i would never have guessed that one day I will have to write one. But when it comes to school assignments, my hands are tied. So, here we go..  

I will (well, I have to)  write a blog about a book called ‘Holes’, written by Louis Sachar. It has also been adapted as a film by Walt Disney Pictures in 2003.

 

When I saw the book first I couldn’t imagine what this book could be about. ‘Holes’ didn’t make any sense to me. And then I saw the arid land picture on the cover. I thought, maybe it could be about drought. But of course it has nothing to do with that. I have always been bad at predicting..

      ‘There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.’

This is the first sentence of the book. It is a conspicuous start to me. The first chapter is like an introduction part. The chapter goes on with description of Camp Green Lake. And then it switches to the story of Stanley Yelnats. I find it very nice that in the first chapter we get the information about Camp Green Lake. In this way we define what we should expect from the book and in following chapters we can easily understand what is going on.

Here is the trailer of movie adaption of the book. I didn't watch the whole movie but I can say that it's not the way I imagine while I'm reading the book.

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