the holes

Do you believe in curses? Webster defines a curse as an appeal to a supernatural power for evil to befall someone or something. In the novel “Holes” by Louis Sachar, Sachar shows how curses can change the life of people.
This can be seen through the curse that affects Stanley’s family. “Stanley had a great- great-grandfather who had stolen a pig from a one-legged Gypsy, and she put a curse on him and all his descendants” (page 8). When he goes to America for his new life, he gets robbed by kissing Barlow. She just left him at the middle of the dessert instead k...