Week+4

 1) At the end of Chapter 45, the author writes, "Stanley could hear his heart beat. Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second." Would you call this a positive or negative statement? Why? 2) How is the version of the lullaby Zero's mother sings at the end of the novel different from the one Stanley's father sang to Stanley? What feelings or emotions are expressed in Zero's mother's version of the lullaby? How do they compare to the emotions expressed in Stanley's version?

3) In Holes we saw how the choices that people made over 100 years in the past continued to have an effect on the people who lived in the present. What choices made by your parents, grandparents or earlier generations had an effect on you? Consider things such as where you live, the kind of business your family has done, the places you've traveled, etc.

4) Read [|Job 4:8]; [|Galations 6:7-10]; and [|James 3:18]. How do these verses relate to the choices we make and their consequences?