Holes Plot Diagram elements

Stanley Yelnats IV, an overweight teen boy

• climax

• exposition

• falling action

• rising action

The Yelnats family is cursed with bad luck.

• rising action

• falling action

• climax

• conflict

Stanley finds a tube with the initials KB on it.

• falling action

• rising action

• climax

• exposition

Hector Zeroni, or "Zero", a small, teen, black boy

• expostition

• climax

• falling action

• rising action

Stanley agrees to teach Zero to read.

• falling action

• exposition

• rising action

• denouement

Stanley finds Zero under a boat and drinks Sploosh.

• rising action

• climax

• exposition

• resolutioin

Ms. Morengo takes Stanley and Zero away from the camp.

• climax

• exposition

• rising action

• falling action

Ms. Walker, a white middle-aged woman and warden of Camp Green Lake

• rising action

• resolution

• exposition

• falling action

Stanley and Zero find the metal suitcase and immediately are covered in yellow-spotted lizards that don't bite them.

• exposition

• climax

• falling action

• conflict

Mr. Sir, a white, middle-aged man and guard at Camp Green Lake

• rising action

• falling action

• resolution

• exposition