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Why were there onions on top of Big Thumb?
When Stanley Yelnats IV escaped Camp Green Lake to find Zero, they made their way to God’s thumb. Stanley and Zero ate sweet onions that were still growing by the spring – the onions fixing the illness caused by Hector Zeroni’s 100-year-old Sploosh – and drank the water from the spring, as Stanley sang the pig lullaby.
What do the onions symbolize in Holes?
Onions. Onions symbolize a positive and healing factor in the novel. Sam, a character of good will and intelligence, loves onions and helps to cure sick people with the onion remedies that he makes. The onions also help Stanley and Zero avoid bites from the deadly yellow- spotted lizards that frequent Camp Green Lake.
What were the onions in the movie Holes?
The onions that Stanley and Zero eat towards the end of the movie are actually apples wrapped in an edible cover. Sigourney Weaver wanted to be in this film because “Holes” is her daughter’s favorite book.
What do you think is the significance of Stanley’s vision of the giant thumb in Holes?
29-What do you think is the significance of Stanley’s vision of the giant thumb? The lightning makes the mountain look like a giant thumb. It reminds Stanley of his grandfathers story. He is beginning to wonder if this is the place that his grandfathers fortune was stolen from Kate Barlow.
How did they find the treasure in Holes?
The boys decide to travel back to the camp to dig up the treasure without the Warden or any of the counselors spotting them. When they return to the camp at night, they dig up a suitcase, which surprisingly has Stanley Yelnats’s name written on the side.
What is a symbol in the book Holes?
The holes symbolize the negative aspects of Camp Green Lake. They are referred to as graves several times in the novel. In the holes lurk rattlesnakes, scorpions and deadly yellow-spotted lizards. The boys who dig them resent the holes as the emblem of their punishment, and spit in them.
Who is the woman with zero at the end of the book holes?
In the 1840s, Hector’s great-great-great-grandmother, Madame Zeroni was an Egyptian. She placed a curse on Stanley Yelnats’ family, because his so-called no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather, Elya Yelnats did not complete his end of a bargain he made with her.
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