Hector Zeroni

Hector Zeroni

This is about the friendship of Hector Zeroni and Stanley Yelnats. This will show you the importance of friendship that no matter what you did to each other, you will be still friends in the end.

Hector Zeroni was a character in the novel‘Holes’ and he is also the deuteragonist of ‘Holes’. Hector was a homeless boy and he constantly had to steal in order to provide for himself. At that age, he didn’t even understand stealing was wrong, but he only took what he needed. At a young age, his mother Mrs. Zeroni accidentally left him at Laney Park. So Hector lived on his own his whole life, never attending school and therefore never learning how to read. One day, Hector stole a pair of Clyde Livingston’s shoes from a homeless shelter’s auction. He threw the shoes over the overpass and they landed on Stanley Yelnats IV who was subsequently arrested. Hector was arrested the next day for stealing a pair of shoes from Wal-Mart. When Hector arrived at Camp Green Lake, he was placed in D-Tent and received the nickname Zero because of his lack of intelligence

When Stanley arrived at Camp Green Lake he haven´t got any friends. He was alone and helpless. Then he met the others from Group D. X-Ray, Armpit, Squid, Zigzag, Magnet and at least Zero. Since the beginning Zero was very closed and didn't talked very much. You could almost say, he would be inconspicuous. Stanley was the only, who took contact to him. Stanley extract some secrets out of him. Zero never tells anyone that he can not write. I think it´s very hard to say something like this, because someone could laugh about this. Stanley was friendly to him and they made a deal: Zero should dig Stanley´s holes and Stanley is teaching Zero the writing. Zero is very thankful about this and I think this is very good for their friendship. Now they began to trust each other. They keep each other. I think it was luck that Stanley found in the wasteland to Zero. When Zero is went, Stanley was very sad about this.

After being released from Camp Green Lake, Hector went to stay with Stanley. While at Stanley's house, they decided half of the items in that chest go to Hector. Hector then used this money to hire a team of Private Investigators to find his mother, then they found Zero's mom and he went home safely. He got to meet his hero Clyde Livingston and told him that he stole the shoes and Stanley didn't. After being released from Camp Green Lake, Hector went to stay with Stanley. While at Stanley's house, they decided half of the items in that chest go to Hector. Hector then used this money to hire a team of Private Investigators to find his mother, then they found Zero's mom and he went home safely. He got to meet his hero Clyde Livingston and told him that he stole the shoes and Stanley didn't.

In this part of the book you can see how big was their friendship. Stanley gives everything to help Zero, because Zero is at the end of his power. Stanley tried to find water for him and similar. Then Stanley found out, that Zero have stolen the sneakers from Clyde Livingston and thrown them from the bridge. But I think when Stanley didn't come to Camp Green Lake he wouldn´t know Zero. Also there is any connection between Stanley and “Hector Zeroni”, because of the past from Stanley's great-great grandfather.