Holes: Part 3, Chapter 50 Summary & Analysis

The narrator says that, despite the fact that Stanley's mother doubts that there was ever a curse, it's true that Stanley's father invented his foot odor cure the day after Elya Yelnats's great-great grandson carried the great-great-great grandson of Madame Zeroni up the mountain. The Warden was forced to sell her family's land after the Attorney General closed Camp Green Lake. It's slated to become a Girl Scout camp.

The contents of the suitcase turned out to be several low-quality gems and a stack of old stock certificates and deeds of trust from the first Stanley. Stanley and Hector each got a little less than a million dollars. Stanley bought his family a house, and Hector hired private investigators. As a final offering, the narrator recounts a scene that takes place a year and a half after Stanley and Hector left Camp Green Lake.

On Super Bowl Sunday, there's a party at the Yelnats house. Stanley and Hector are the only teens in attendance. As a commercial comes on, everyone stops to watch. It shows Clyde Livingston, who's also sitting in Stanley's living room, playing baseball. He explains that his nickname is Sweet Feet, but his feet didn't used to actually smell good. He pulls out a can of something called Sploosh and says it cured his foot smell. Everyone at the party claps their hands as Clyde Livingston's wife makes jokes about how bad her husband's feet used to smell.

Stanley turns towards Hector, who's sitting on the floor in front of a youngish woman. She looks weathered and weary, as though she's seen too much. As Hector's mother runs her fingers through Hector's hair, she sings a song her grandmother used to sing to her—a version of the song that Stanley's family has been singing for generations.