Stanley was not a bad kid. He was innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. He’d just been in the wrong place at the wrong time.It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather!He smiled. It was a family joke. Whenever anything went wrong, they always blamed Stanley’s no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.—Holes,Louis SacharRead this passage.Even though Stanley had been wrongly accused of a crime, "he smiled." What does this tell you about Stanley's character?
It tells the reader that Stanley thinks it's funny that he's been accused of something he didn't do. This also implies that this situation has happened to him before, so he finds it humorous and smiles.
