HOLES
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unit 19-26 (p83~115)
- One hundred and ten years
ago -
Katherine Barlow
the town’s only
school teacher
Trout Walker (Charles Walker)
① He had an incurable foot fungus. The same foot fungus that a hundred and ten
years later would afflict the famous ballplayer Clyde Livingston.
② Son of the richest man in the country & loud and stupid
Sam
the onion man /
had a donkey named Mary Lou / good at
fixing stuffs
<Story with Trout>
- Trout didn’t want to learn and just wanted to date Kate.
- He asked her
out, but she said “no”, so he got angry.
<Story with Sam>
- Sam was a good
fixer
- Sam fixed the schoolhouse.
- They fell in
love
- Some voice
said that God would punish them
- Everyone in Green
Lake had heard that the school teacher had kissed the onion picker
- No one came to
school the next day
<The story after>
- A mob of men
and women came into the school building and they were led by Trout Walker.
- They tried to
break the classroom and hurt Kate.
- She ran to the
sheriff’s office to ask for help.
- The sheriff got
drunk and tried to get her to kiss him.
- She said to Sam
that they have to leave town quickly.
- The sheriff
caught up with a motorized boat and killed Sam, and Mary Lou, too.
- Katherine was
saved against her wish, and then there was no rain in Green Lake.
- Then the other
day, she killed the sheriff and left him a kiss.
- Her nickname
became Kissin’ Kate Barlow
- The present story -
- Magnet stole a bag of sunflower seeds and all the boys shared it.
- Mr. Sir returned, and Stanley accidentally threw it into his hole,
and it was spilled across the dirt.
- Mr. Sir took Stanley to Warden and said Stanley lied that he had
eaten all of his sunflower seeds.
- Warden asked Stanley to bring a makeup box.
- Warden showed a poisoned nail polish made by her own and said it
was not toxic when it was dry, but it was highly toxic before it was dry.
- Mr. Sir explained what had happened, but she scratched his face
with a less dried fingernails-hand. Mr. Sir collapsed
- Stanley came
back and saw that his hole had already been dug up.
- It was dug up by Zero and Stanley
offered Zero that if he taught him to read, and in return Zero decided to dig
Stanley's hole for an hour every day.
- Mr. Sir didn’t
distribute water to Stanley after the day he received a strong warning from
Warden.
- Stanley taught
Zero how to read every day and Zero gave him his real name.
He was Hector Zeroni.
- The other boys at Camp Green Lake
saw Stanley rest while Zero dug a hole for him and were
sarcastic.
- Warden warned
that everyone should dig a hole on their own.
- Vocabulary words-
① dread
p.88, He felt
nothing but dread now.
def : to feel
extremely worried about something that is going to happen or that might happen
Ex) He is dreading the exam because he's sure
he's going to fail.
② defiance
p. 96, For a
second, he thought he saw a flash of defiance
in Zero's eyes, but then it passed.
def : open
resistance; bold disobedience.
Ex) Despite her defiance, her voice shook.
③ gurgling
p. 105, A gurgling sound came out of the boy's mouth, then he
managed to gasp the word, "Fine."
def : If water is gurgling, it is making the sound that it makes when it flows quickly and unevenly through a narrow space.
Ex) Water is gurgling through the pipes.