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Supersummary, a modern alternative to sparknotes and cliffsnotes, offers highquality study guides for challenging works of literature. This study guide consists of approximately 32 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of hole in my life. My name is paola valdivia, and im going to tell you my wonderful story. The book then goes on to provide an indepth examination of. In the summer of 1971, jack gantos was an aspiring writer looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way out of a deadend job. Hole in my life hole in my life audiobook, by jack gantos. In 1971 jack gantos was scraping through his final year of high school. I feel like mainly everything about the book was good and interesting.

A memoir, by turns harrowing and hilarious, about a huge mistake. His parents had moved to st croix in the virgin islands, but he was. Hole in my life is about one mans mistakes, and how he used those mistakes to learn, and to achieve his dreams, despite his setbacks. Jul 22, 2003 listen to hole in my life audiobook by jack gantos. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading hole in my life. Gantos was a young man with little supervision who led a life that involved many moves and opportunities. Setting there are several important locations in this book. This study guide consists of approximately 32 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis. Like a mystery of sorts, holes is always giving us little bits of information that dont seem particularly relevant, only for us to find out much later that some of those bits were the keys to the puzzle all along. In the summer of 1971, jack gantos was an aspiring writer desperate for adventure, college cash, and a way out of a deadend job. Hole in my life by jack gantos, 2002, farrar, straus and giroux edition, in english 1st ed. Croix to new york city, and the time he spent in prison after being busted. Book summary the book hole in my life by jack gantos is a very well written novel that gives the reader a detailed understanding of one young mans travel through life.

Mar 26, 2002 the book i just finished reading is hole in my life by jack gantos i liked the book because it was interesting. Jack gantos lives with his wife and daughter in boston, massachusetts. You probably wouldnt believe that this noted childrensyoung adult author spent time in jail for his part in a drug smuggling operation. This 40page guide for hole in my life by jack gantos includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 16 chapters, as well as several more indepth sections of expertwritten literary analysis. These folks zigged when the rest of the world zagged. Mar 26, 2002 for his part in the conspiracy, gantos was sentenced to serve up to six years in prison. This novel is narrated and told from the point of view of jack gantos. In hole in my life, jack gantos recounts the story of his time as an idle teenager turned drug smuggler, including his eventual capture by the government and his. The book is about the time gantos sailed a boat that was full of hashish from st. Hole in my life is the autobiographical story of jack gantos during his younger years. The first is of a gallant british woman struggling to make sense of a world turned upside down by symptoms that she cannot understand in her case scds.

Books similar to hole in my life goodreads share book. Feb 11, 2005 hole in my life by jack gantos 224pp, red fox. Holes study guide contains a biography of louis sachar, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Puerto rico is where gantos first begins drinking, as he goes to work as an electrician instead of heading to. Find books like hole in my life from the worlds largest community of readers.

Sibert honors, joey pigza swallowed the key, a national book award finalist, joey pigza loses control, a newbery honor book, and dead end in norvelt, winner of the newbery medal and the scott odell award for historical fiction. Dead end in norvelt, winner of the newbery medal and the. They start making shipping crates and selling them. But going so far as opening the book and reading the. They had came to a stopping point and it was restricted waters so they had to leave and they didnt so they just got on land and ran away from them. Printz award and the same year became a winner of the robert f. Additionally, several standards in social studies may. Hole in my life by jack gantos goodreads share book.

The photo was taken in 1972 at the mediumsecurity federal correctional institution in ashland, kentucky. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. This was a life quite unlike those of many other children. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixtyfoot yacht loaded with hashish from the virgin islands to new york city, where he and his partners. Hole in my life summary and study guide supersummary. Maybe the book is suggesting that life is like that too. May 26, 2016 a hole in my life battling chronic dizziness, by philippa thomson is a must read for anyone with unexplained dizziness. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Sibert honors, joey pigza swallowed the key, a national book award finalist, joey pigza loses control, a newbery honor book, and dead end in norvelt, winner of the.

They had to carry drugs and they had ran into some casualties and they had to get around them. His works include hole in my life, a memoir that won the michael l. His book the trouble in me is an autobiographical novel about a fourteenyearold jack gantos, and his book dead end in novelt won the newbery medal, the scott odell award for historical fiction. His second novel for children, joey pigza swallowed the key, was a national book award finalist, and the sequel, joey pigza loses control, was a newbery honor book. Autobiography in five short chapters by portia nelson. I was born on april 21, 2004, in san francisco, st. By taking a look at the cover of the book hole in my life by jack gantos, you may not instantly see the true greatness behind this story. He asked jack if he was intrested in sailing a boat to new.

Hole in my life offers teachers the chance to utilize a text that is non. Man vs society after he moves back to st croix and is working with his father agian and the buissness goes belly up. For his part in the conspiracy, gantos was sentenced to serve up to six years in prison. Hole in my life presentation by prezi user on prezi. Page 61 since i was trying so hard to make books lead my life. Gantos chose a life of crime to escape his homeland and.

Becoming a writer the hard wayin the summer of 1971, jack gant. Fort lauderdale is a city in florida where gantos finishes high school. First of all, puerto rico is where gantos first begins drinking, as he goes to work as an electrician instead of heading to school for his second half of his junior year. The following is an excerpt from the book hole in my life by jack gantos. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. The answer that changed my life and might just change the world by richard stearns and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. In hole in my life, this prizewinning author of over thirty books for young. In hole in my life, this prizewinning author of over thirty books for young people confronts the period of struggle and confinement that marked the end of his own youth.

There are, however, two stories told in this riveting narrative. The book then goes on to provide an in depth examination of. It is a great lesson for teens, not only about recovering from mistakes, but about taking the right paths in life to avoid mistakes entirely. The book hole in my life was the book i read and it was good. Autobiography in five short chapters i walk down the street. The book hole in my life is an autobiography of jack gantos life in prison and what lead up to it. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Hole in my life by jack gantos is a story of one young mans struggle to become a writer. A man named rick got one made and payed jack in pot. When i look at my face in the photo i see nothing but the pocked mask i was hiding behind.

Jack was in prison for smuggling marijuana from st. He was born in pennsylvania and him and his family moved around a lot during his childhood up to his near adulthood. Luckily, jack gantos narrates his autobiography so that you know its true. Since i was trying so hard to make books lead my life, i didnt want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, good book, as if i was patting a. Instead this is a powerfully honest report of why mr. Hole in my life presentation jack later on joined the drug culture. I was twentyone years old and had been locked up for a year already the bleakest year of my life and i had more time ahead of me. Goodreads members who liked hole in my life also liked. Hole in my life is an american autobiography of jack gantos and was published by macmillan publishers in 2002.