Adaptation: Holes (Movie) Vs. Holes (Book)

Holes ( Movie)

Genre: Holes is a Adventure fiction and mystery film directed by Andrew Davis which is based on the book made in 1998 by Louis Sachar.

 

Wikimedia Foundation. (2023, September 24). Holes (film). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holes_(film)

 

Plot: Teenager Stanley Yelnats  is sent to a detention camp for a crime he didn't commit - stealing a pair of shoes - and is forced by the ferocious warden to dig five-foot deep holes every day as a character building exercise. But is there more to the holes than meets the eye?

 

Holes - Movie Synopsis, summary, plot & film details. FilmJabber.com. (n.d.). https://www.filmjabber.com/movie-synopsis/holes.html

 

 

Holes (Novel)

 

 Genre: Young Adult Fiction, Adventure fiction, Mystery.

Holes is a 1998 young adult novel written by Louis Sachar and first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book centers on Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to Camp Green Lake, a correctional boot camp in a desert in Texas, after being falsely accused of theft. 

Wikimedia Foundation. (2023b, October 3). Holes (novel). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holes_(novel)

 

Concept: Stanley Yelnats, a boy who has bad luck due to a curse placed on his great- great-grandfather, is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp, for a crime he did not commit. Stanley and the other boys at the camp are forced to dig large holes in the dirt every day.

 

SparkNotes. (n.d.). Sparknotes. https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/holes/summary/