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Themes Of Holes

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Have you ever been so thirsty that your throat felt like a desert. Or have you ever felt like your hands hurt super bad that you thought they were going to fall off. Swoosh was the sound of the shoes flying threw the air before hitting Stanley on the top of the head. I think the theme of holes would be growing up because it has learning, responsibility, and innocence.

A kid named Stanley Yelnats was arrested because he was accused of stealing Clyde Livingston a famous baseball players cleats. He was sent to Camp Green Lake to dig holes as a punishment. He’s there for 18 months and until then he has to work all day long. Then one day he meat Zero which help with his holes and Stanley was teaching Zero how to write. “ Actually

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