@gracelynn
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The story about Stanley’s no-good-dirty-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather fits into the main story because that’s how Stanley knew about the curse of bad luck and how they named Stanley’s great great grandfather the ‘No-good-dirty-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather’. The present story is the one that the readers follow, of course. But the one about Kissin’ Kate Barlow matches the lines in the book about how Stanley’s great grandfather ‘found refuge on God’s Thumb’. It also explains why Camp Green Lake was made and was the root of most of the drama in the story.
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I agree that ‘chance is more important than choice in Holes’. Choice is important, too. Stanley chose to go after Zero. But, it was only by chance that he knew about the Big Thumb. It was also by chance that Clyde’s shoes fell out of the sky and hit him on the head, therefore starting the story. Throughout the story, all mistakes that were made was blamed on Stanley’s no-good-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and the curse. So, not all the problems were Stanley’s fault. But there defiantly was a good handful of mistakes that Stanley made himself.
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A strength of having a story told in the perspective of a horse is that you can see what the horse thinks of his master, food, drink, and work. Another strength would be that you could see exactly how a horse feels when someone does something. A weakness is that sometimes the horse will run away from information, like what Joey did when Joey witnessed the tank coming down the hill when he was mourning over Topthorn. He ran until he heard voices, but backed away from them.
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