Holes

Book Review by BoRyung Yun

  The book “**Holes**”, written by **Louis Sachar**, is a book that is expected to be read by most of the children. It is a book that everyone will say “Oh, I have read it too.” when I mention it’s title. It is so common that everyone knows which book it is when I even mention only its title but there are plenty of reasons for it. Stanley, who is the main character of the story, is sent to the prison by unfortunate fate. He had two choices there. Whether to stay in the prison for long time, or be freed from prison and dig the holes. Stanley, who was so young that he wanted to get out of the prison as soon as possible, decided to dig the holes, without thinking about the hardships that he is going to be suffering.

Although the choice was what Stanley himself has chosen,nothing in the world is easy when it comes to the first time. Stanley found digging the holes so hard and tiring that he wants to give up. Different with what Stanley had expected, digging the hole in a space that had nothing required much more time, strength, and persistence. Stanley had to suffer from the pain that he feels from his arms, legs, his whole body. As time passes, he get used to what he does. , Stanley finds out that the supervisor who controls the schedules of the children who dig the holes, was actually looking for something in aim. This book, is the book that will make you to be absorbed into it while you are reading. Whatever Stanley does wrong or not, you will feel the same thing as Stanley. Also, although this book is written of easy words, it has a power of attracting the readers into the book. I would strongly recommend this book to those people who struggles in reading the difficult books that has difficult words written in it. This book is a fresh, new book that will show you that easy words can also show the meaningful story.