In the book Holes, how does the flashback about Stanley’s grandfather affect the reader? It helps the reader understand why Stanley and his family always have bad luck.
It helps the reader to understand why Stanley was sent to Camp Green Lake.
It makes the story less interesting and more difficult for the reader to follow.
It makes the story more predictable and easier for the reader to understand.

The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.