"Small Steps", Stanley S. Pages 0-256

 *Prompt* - • Describe the most important event. Give at least three reasons why you think it

is the most important event.

        "Small Steps" is the sequel to "Holes" and I really like how the story has changed. It isn't in the view of Stanley Yelnats any more, but instead between Armpit and X-ray. They had just gotten out of their jail camp and Armpit is trying it out the right way by working hard and trying to get to college. On the other hand X-ray is into scalping illegally for a concert and, they being friends, offers to have Armpit into the deal, and when Armpit wants to go to the concert with his friend, X-ray gives them fake tickets without telling them, and when at the concert the guards come to see the tickets they notice. When Armpit reacts, he starts yelling and his friend has a seizure. Thats when they meet Tatiana.

        I think that the most important event in the book is when they meet Tatiana. It sets up the whole plot and the book would not be even close to how it is now without her. She is the woman singing in the concert, and talks to Armpit's friend after she has the seizure. She becomes intimately involved with Armpit, and they "hook-up". Armpit meets the man married to her mother and he asks Armpit to hold a bat, only to get his finger prints on to later frame him.

        Eventually after Armpit and Tatiana break up, the father finally uses the finger prints. He knows that Tatiana and Armpit are angry at each other and Tatiana has a giant life insurance check. So one night, he goes in with the bat and hits Tatiana over the head several times. Only one problem. The loose end that he didn't tie up was Armpit. Armpit had come back to apologize, when no one answered the knock and he heard a wimper, he had to let himself in. Yadda, Yadda, he takes the lamp, smashes it over the fathers head, they all live happily ever after, except Armpit never gets back together with Tatiana.