HolesSimilarities and differences.

A presentation by Shannon

Holes Louis Sachar

Holes is about a boy called Stanley Yelnats and he is sent to Camp Green Lake as a

punishment. He has to did a hole everyday. One day he ran away to find refuge on gods

thumb, and he did. When he got back to camp, his lawyer was there waiting to take

him home.

Similarities

There are lots of similarities between the book and the film. The first one is everyone has the same names and no new characters were introduced. As well the setting was the same because it was set in Texas. The story line was the mainly the same too, the shoes fell on his head in both the movie and the book, they drank sploosh and the yellow

spotted lizards didn't bite them.

I think they kept these things the same because they are important and they are

the main parts of the story. If I was writing the story or making the film, I would have

kept these things the same too.

Differences

There are even more differences in the book and film, than similarities. The first difference is in the film

Stanley is skinny, but it says in the book that he is not and in the film Zero is not black where as in the film

he is mixed race.

I think these let the film down a lot.

Thank youShannon

Evaluation

Book

I liked how the book used really effective words because it helped me understand the story more. But, I disliked how Louis Sachar the scorpions didn't do any harm to anyone where as all the other animals

did.

Film

I liked how in the film there was actually more in the flashbacks than in the book

because it helped me understand the whole story line. I disliked how the film ruined my

visual images of the characters.

Overall I preferred the book because I could let my

imagination go.