Book Report On Siam

Book Report On Siam

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Hole |
Author: Louis Sacher |
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Herbert Salguero |
8/3/2011 |

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  I. Title: Holes
  II. Author: Louis Sacher
  III. Introduction:
Louis Sachar was born on March 20, 1954 in East Meadow, New York. When he was nine years old he moved to Tustin, California. He stayed in California and attended the University of California at Berkeley. While he was in college he helped out at Hillside Elementary School, which inspired his first book, Sideways Stories from Wayside School. The book was approved for publication the week he started law at Hastings College of Law in San Francisco. He graduated law school in 1980 and became a lawyer part time as he continued writing children’s books. He got married in 1985 and now has a daughter. He lives with his family in Austin, Texas.
Sachar bases some of the characters in his stories on his own life and relationships. The character of the teacher in his first book was based on himself and his experiences at Hillside School. The counselor in There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom was inspired by his wife. The four-year-old little sister in the Marvin Redpost series was based on Sachar’s daughter, Sherre. In order to maintain his motivation when he is writing, Sachar allows only his dogs, no people, into his office until he finishes a book.
It took a year and a half to write Holes (published in 1998). It is Sachar’s most successful book. It has won the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Boston Globe Horn Book Award, as well as being listed as a New York Times Book Review Notable Children’s Book of the Year, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year. In addition it has been made into a motion picture.
  IV. Setting
The novel takes place at a boys’ juvenile detention center situated in the dried up bed of a fictional lake in Texas. Most of the story is set in contemporary time, around the end of the 1990’s. There are flashbacks to the town of Green Lake,...