Read this excerpt from Holes. Because of the baseball schedule, Stanley’s trial was delayed several months. His parents couldn’t afford a lawyer. “You don’t need a lawyer,” his mother had said. “Just tell the truth.”
Stanley told the truth, but perhaps it would have been better if he had lied a little. He could have said he found the shoes in the street. No one believed they fell from the sky.
Based on this flashback, how does Stanley feel about what happened in the past?
He thinks that the shoes were a gift from God.
He thinks that destiny brought the shoes to him.
He thinks that the truth was too unbelievable.
He thinks that he should have had a lawyer.