Rough Draft of barely a Book Review Part 2
Author: Billy Lau // Category:8. Pick a character that interested you and write about them in depth. You can also analyze a relationship between two different characters.
Another character in the book, Holes that really interests me is Zero. Zero's real name is not Zero, but Hector. He was named Zero by his cabin mates, and has been called that all his life. He is named this because he knows nothing. To his cabin mates, Zero is a nobody. But you can't blame a homeless orphan living on the streets to know how to read and write. In the book, it saids that Zero was left at a store by his mom one day and his mom never came back.
However, Zero may have gone through a lot of adversity, but he still is very smart and would stand up for himself anytime. In the beginning, he is portrayed as a small lonely kid who never talks and has a scowl on his face. In the middle, he meets Stanley and he starts talking again. Stanley figures out that he does not talk because he hates answering questions. Zero feels too ashamed to answer questions because other people will always mock and tease him.
One day, Zero can not stand Camp Green Lake so he runs away. However, he also says that he likes digging holes, and would dig half of Stanley's hole to get english and math lessons from Stanley. Stanley eventually figures out that he is a BEAST in learning math, because of his speed. However, english seems to be a little harder for him. When Zero runs away, Stanley follows behind and finds Zero in a boat eating 100 years old peach juice. Zero is shown here that he is super giving because he gives the rest of his peaches drink to Stanley.
In the end, Zero begins to talk more to Stanley. Zero seems to trust Stanley a lot so he opens up for him. Zero shows his honest side and admits that he was the one who stole the shoes that Stanley got blamed for stealing.
"If Zero had just kept those shoes, then neither of them would be here right now."
That was the reason why Stanley was in Camp Green Lake.
