Throwback to the Holes Book (Chapter 31 - 50)

*On the past few weeks, my class and I which is Ibu Megan's class were assigned to read a book about holes and here is my summary of the holes from chapter 31 - 50.


        After that incident, zero decided to ran away from camp green lake. Stanley looked at Zero as he disappeared to the haze. Stanley was really mad to everyone especially himself. He is regretting the teaching trade. He suppose not to let Zero dig his hole as if Zero has the strength to dig his hole and part of Stanley’s and also study well, why couldn’t Stanley dig his own hole and teach Zero well. Finally, Stanley is the one who dig Zero’s hole after he is gone as nobody wants to dig Zero’s hole. Stanley keeps wondering should he go after zero or should he just stay in Camp Green Lake. He keeps thinking if Zero might reach the god’s thumb and found a water source there. The next day, there’s still no sign of Zero and finally the warden asks Mr. Pendanski to erase all of Zero’s data from the camp’s records so that no authority will know that he was at the camp. Soon, they found out that Zero is the ward of state and it’s useless to erase his data as nobody will care about him. Two days later, Twitch came in to replace Zero. He is arrested for stealing cars and sent to camp green lake. When canteen truck is arrived, Stanley got an idea to steal the truck and hunt for zero. He then confidently jump to the truck and try to steal the car. Twitch shout for advices as Stanley starts the truck. Finally he can make the car move for a while and he crash the car into a hole. He then runs off the truck getting further from the camp.

He continues to run and look for Zero. As he walks, he keeps seeing holes and every time he was passing a hole, he was hoping that zero was not in that hole. He then found one hole that contains a family of yellow spotted lizards. He is terrified and runs faster. He then found a sack of sunflower seed with only one seed inside it. He keeps thinking if he should go back to the camp or keep walking to find zero. He keep walking towards a shape that he thinks are the mountains but not so long after he saw that, he found a boat half buried in the dried lake with a tunnel leading underneath the boat. The boat’s name is Mary Lou. It turns out that inside the boat is Zero. Stanley was happy to find Zero was still alive. Zero doesn’t want to go back to the camp and he told Stanley a drink named “sploosh” that made him survive until now. Stanley wanted to drink the sploosh to as he was so thirsty but he was scared to drink such old water as it may contain a lot of bad bacteria. He and Zero then went out of the boat and look at the big thumb. They started to walk towards the mountain and keep on thinking who Mary Lou is. As they get closer to the mountain, the terrain also getting harder. Then they help each other to climb the mountain. They keep hiking and getting closer to the big thumb until Zero passed out and Stanley can’t wake him up.

Stanley decided to carry Zero and keep hiking until they fell into a muddy ground which make Stanley realize that there’s must be water somewhere around that place. He keeps on digging the mud and found dirty water inside it. He also found an onion inside the mud and give halve of the onion to Zero and Zero starts to be more conscious. The next day, Zero was getting more conscious but still very sick. He then told Stanley that he was the one who stole Clyde Livingston’s shoe. At that time, Stanley still didn’t understand what was Zero talking about. For the next few days, they survive with dirt water and onions. Stanley decided to take the sploosh jar and the shovel that he left on the bottom part of the mountain. He realized that he is now really strong that with all of his tiredness, he can still go down to mountain and get back up to the place where he and Zero sleep just now. After Zero getting even better than before, he decided to tell the story how he stole Clyde’s shoe. Stanley was not too angry at that time, as he was happy to met Zero in the camp. They then decided to go back to the camp. They walk towards the camp and took a break in the Mary Lou’s semi-buried boat. As they get nearer to the camp, they decided to dig a hole to find a treasure. Stanley decided to dig a hole where he found the lipstick tube. They dig the hole and finally discover a metal suitcase. Just before they complete digging the hole, suddenly there’s a bright light shining to them.

It’s the warden and her crew who shines the flashlight to them. Stanley and Zero got busted by the warden but suddenly, yellow spotted lizards were starting to came out of the suitcase and covers both of Stanley and Zero’s body. The Lizards wont bite theme as their blood were mixed with onions and those lizards didn’t like onion. As the sun came up, the lizards are starting to crawl away from their bodies and at the same time, a woman from the city official approaches Stanley to tell that he is released from the camp as he is proved innocent and he will be brought home with the woman from the city official. Before the city official brought Stanley away from the camp, Stanley wanted to meet his friends in Camp Green Lake for the last time and say goodbye. He also wants Zero to be released too and brought home together with Stanley. The city officials approved that both of them were released. After Stanley went home, he found out that his father’s invention works with the sploosh that Stanley brought from the camp. His father was now an inventor of foot odorless machine. It was called “Sploosh” as one of the ingredients was peach. Clyde Livingston was also becomes the star of the commercial. Yelnats’ curse was lifted too as Stanley (Which is Yelnats’ generation) carries Zero (Which is Madame Zeroni’s generation) up to the mountain and sings the lullaby. Camp Green Lake was also now changed into a Girl Scout Camp, as Camp Green Lake is not suitable anymore to receive kids.

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