Stanley's Great Great Grandfather

In this blog post I am going to talk to you about how Stanley blames everything bad happening to him as his no-good-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. I think that this is just a way for Stanley to get out of any trouble he gets in. I think that is a way to help Stanley cope with is problems. This shows that Stanley is weak minded and shows how he can just blame people for his other problems. I think that Stanley should man up and take whatever happens to him as his own. That is the only way that he can ever accept anything good that happens to him a his own.

Most important line from Chapter 1

In this blog post I am going to show the most important quote of this chapter. I am going to reference chapter 1 because I think that shows a good start and is very in depth and adds meaning. The reason it adds meaning is because is show what Camp Green Lake was like. The quote I think is most meaningful in chapter 1 is "Sometimes a camper would be bitten by a scorpion, or even a small rattlesnake. Then he would spend a day or two recovering in his tent, Instead of having to dig a hole out on the lake." The reason I think this is the most important quote of chapter 1 is it shows how hard times were at Camp Green Lake and shows how many animals came at you and you always had to be aware.

Text to Self Reference

In this blog post I am going to make a text to self reference. In this post I am going to talk to you about how Stanley has been through some tough times and so have I. Stanley always ends up at the wrong place at the wrong time and always seems to get in trouble. I feel the same way most of the time. Like this one time in second grade I got in trouble for stealing when in reality I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and it was actually the kid next to me who had stole. This is just like how Stanley got in trouble for doing something he didn't do.

Krista Ramsey blog post

I read the column Dear new mom, welcome to a loving group. This post is about how important a mom is to her kid. It helps to bring out the biggest love in her heart and show care for here children.

 I think the best written line of the story is "Love is a mother's guiding star. It gives her the patience to keep up with immunizations and check-ups, which can be so annoying but matter so much." I think that this is the best written line in the story because it is two sentences and shows good length on short and one long. The first sentence of it is very short and has so much meaning and depth into the short 6 words it is in. The word choice in this line is very detailed and helps show how much a mother cares and loves her childern.

Krista Ramsey's style of writing is detailed and show how little things that we take for granted that are actually really important. I think these help to make her a better writer and help the reader really see the world in a different way.

One question that I would ask is how does she see the hidden things in the world. Another question I would ask is how do you get that much detail into a short column. The final question I would ask Krista Ramsey is how does she feel when writing these blogs because they are so meaningful.
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/columnists/krista-ramsey/2014/03/20/krista-ramsey-cradle-cincinnati/6676533/

Why I Chose Holes

I chose the book Holes. I chose this because when I was looking through some of the books I had at my house, the back of Holes looked most interesting. As I read the back it really helped me picture what this book was all about and it looked interesting. When I started reading through the first pages of Holes it really showed detail and depth and helped to bring out the big picture in the story. Also in this book it helps describe what type of person Stanley is and how he reacts to different situations in the story. Finally the book describes how harsh of conditions he is going to go through and what type of place Camp Green Lake is. I am very excited to see how this book turns out! I will keep you guys posted!

Possible Future Plot Events

My Predicitons is he will think all things bad happened to him because of his pig stealing great-great-grandfather. I predict that Stanley will have a rough time at Camp Green Lake and he will blame it on his great-great-grandfather. I predict that a snake will be in his hole or bed that he is sleeping/digging in that day/night. When Stanley gets there he will meet someone who is nice to him and that is his only friend at Camp Green Lake. I predict that Stanley will go through trouble with dehydration and the holes he must dig. Finally I predict that Stanley will find a friend that has been through the same thing where he was innocent and was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Finally I think that Stanley will figure out that it is not his great-great-grandfathers part and maybe he just has karma and maybe just at the wrong place at the wrong time just like it happens to other people. I am excited to see how my predictions turn out with Stanley and the people in the story.

Setting of Holes

The setting of the book is at Camp Green Lake. Camp Green Lake is a dried up piece of land that is extremely hot and a boy's detention center. The boys at Camp Green Lake are required to dig holes at this hot fiery place. In this story Stanley goes there and decribes in detail how it is very hot and takes a lot of water to keep hydrated in these harsh conditions. As you can see this would not be someones favorite place to go. It is a desert and the prision guards are trying to make it into a lake. These harsh conditions may make for some difficult times later in the story.