Holes Man and the Natural World Quotes Page 1
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| Quote #1 There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. There once was a very large lake here, the largest lake in Texas. That was over a hundred years ago. Now it is just a dry, flat wasteland. |
Nature and humanity seem pretty connected in this book. From the very first line of the story, we see that when one changes, the other follows.
| Quote #2 The digging got easier after a while. The ground was hardest at the surface, where the sun had baked a crust about eight inches deep. Beneath that, the earth was looser. (7.19) |
Sure, this is just a simple description of the land. But let's dig deeper. (Yeah, we like that pun.) We can also read this as a hint of the "layered" quality of the natural world: what appears on the surface isn't always what's really underneath. Can you think of other instances of these kinds of "layers" in the world of the novel?
| Quote #3 There was a change in the weather. |
This passage opens the second section of the book. Can you think of another approaching storm that's about to break out in the book's plot at this point?
