Humans tend to believe that supreme supernatural forces explain what they do not understand or the impossible. An example is that a greater force or more powerful being called God or Goddess or the stars chooses people's lives for them, we call this destiny. Others seem to think that coincidences are also supernatural, and Muslims believe that every human being is born with a book that contains their entire future. These ideas all represent the meaning of life as seen by destiny. In the novel "Holes | by Louis Eochar, the idea of ​​fate is very important and the main character Stanley Yelnats experiences it in both positive and negative ways. Stanley's family has been cursed for generations since his Big Pig's thief grandfather broke a promise to a gypsy. This inheritance takes Stanley through a chain of negative events. One of the most pivotal moments in the story is when Stanley is struck. to the head with a pair of stolen sneakers that the family curse is real, not just the bad luck stories of his ancestors and that this curse is ruining Stanley's current situation. This negative event leads to a chain reaction of bad events: Stanely. first gets bullied at school, then because of that he misses his bus, so he has to walk home, then he gets hit with the shoes, then he gets excited so he walks home. running home and the police notice him, then he is arrested, then he is convicted, then he is sent to a juvenile prison, then he has to endure bad guards, endure poisonous lizards and he has to work all day under a scorching sun. The family curse affected everyone in Stanley's family by giving them bad luck and negative consequences in their lives. Stanley's great-grandfather, Stanley Yelnats II ge...... middle of paper ...... first shows that the curse affects many other people and events and even affects the weather in ways negative then positive. All in all, this curse seemed very bad for a very long time, but instead it led and allowed good things to happen in the end. To conclude, I leave you with these two reflections essential to understanding this essay. This series of horrible, devastating, terrifying, bad and awful events caused by the Yelnat family curse caused many bad things such as: bad events, bad weather, bad luck and finally transformed into wonderful things including everyone benefited. Furthermore, the terrible curse that haunted the Yelnats family for so long was over and all was well for the characters in the story. Fate, in the form of bad luck or a family curse, affected Stanley first in a bad way, then in a good way..