Holes - by louis sachar

             I’ve recently started reading this great book called Holes by Louis Sachar. Basically what happens in this book is that a boy named Stanley yelnats (who is very poor by the way) is arrested for supposedly stealing a pair of sneakers from an orphanage. Now, Stanley is actually innocent, but the judge does not believe this and so sentences him 16 months hard Labour at camp green lake. Stanley finds camp green lake terrible, you have to dig holes every day to build character, and it’s in the middle of a hot, barren land.

            While reading this book, (even though I haven’t gotten very far yet) I started thinking about the justice system in Stanley’s world. It wasn’t very fair, Stanley told the judge the truth, but the judge just wouldn’t believe it about the justice system in our society, and wonder if it is fair or not. To me personally, Stanley was only in the wrong place at the wrong time. This eventually led me to think I guess its fair enough, you do a crime, and then you sit in a cold barred cell, thinking about what you’ve done. Not too unfair, as the saying goes... “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time”.