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 a more powerful being called God or Goddess or the stars choose people's lives for them, we call this destiny. Other people seem to think that coincidences are also supernatural and Muslims believe that every human being is born with a book that contains his entire future. All these ideas represent the meaning of life as seen by fate or destiny. In the novel "Holes| by Louis Eochar, the idea of ​​destiny 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 grandfather, the thief of Big Big Pig, broke a promise to a gypsy. This legacy drags Stanley through a chain of negative events. One of the most pivotal moments in the story is when Stanley is hit in the head with a pair of stolen sneakers they prove that the family curse is real, not just bad luck stories from his ancestors and this curse ruins Stanley's current situation. This negative event leads to a chain reaction of negative events: first Stanely is bullied at school, then at because of him he misses the bus, so he has to walk home, then he gets hit with shoes, then he gets excited so he runs home and the police notice him, then he gets arrested, then he gets found guilty, then he gets sent to juvenile detention , then he has to endure bad guards, endure poisonous lizards and has to work all day under the scorching sun. The family curse affected all members of Stanley's family giving them bad luck and negative life outcomes. Stanley's great-grandfather, Stanley Yelnats II, ge...... middle of paper ...... soon shows that the curse affects many other people and events and also affects the weather first negatively and then positively. Overall, this curse seemed very bad for a long time, but on the contrary it led and allowed good things to happen in the end. To conclude, I leave you with these two essential thoughts for understanding this essay. This series of horrible, deviant, terrifying, evil and terrible events caused by the curse of the Yelnat family caused numerous bad things to occur such as: bad events, bad weather, bad luck and eventually turned into wonderful things that everyone profited from . Even the heartbreaking curse that had haunted the Yelnats family for so long was over, and all was well with the characters in the story. Fate in the form of bad luck or a family curse affected Stanley first in a negative way and then in a positive way.