Through the eyes of Stanley

Authors Note- This piece is the point of view piece.

In Holes by Louis Sachar, Stanley learns the life of a criminal and digs holes. He later finds out that the camp is looking for something, after Zero runs away he follows him and they fight to stay alive.  The story is written in Stanley’s point of view, about how learns to dig and stay alive. From Stanley’s perspective, many events and characters are described in a way that would vary from the Warden of Camp Green Lake.

One way that  Stanley’s point of view influences the reader's view of the characters of how they are good people that did bad things, but the Warden doesn’t see it like that and treats them like dirt. And doesn’t respect them, as Stanley spends all day with them and learns about the other kids. It influenced me as a reader that the Zero and the other kids that they were not that bad. However if it was from the Wardens view that she saw them as bad people. Because she didn’t get to know them at all and only thinks there only bad criminals.

Anyhow the reader would feel a lot differently about digging holes if the novel was written in the point of view of Warden because she knows that are rare items from long ago buried in the dirt. So she uses criminals to dig holes so they can find the rare items. Witch also teaches them a lesson about the crime they did.

As you can see that the book may change due the point of view of another character. So it may seem bad to dig holes but to find something for teach criminals what they did and punish them. Also you may only see one side of the story from the one character with Stanley and another half from the Warden.

In the book Holes, the characters perspective could change if switched with the Warden or any of the staff. The kids may seem nice and not bad criminals, but from the eyes of the Warden there bad criminals looking for some valuables. However the way the author Louis Sachar wrote the book it would have been cool if the reader could of seen in the eye’s of the big bad Warden.