Sam the Onion Man

Sam the Onion Man is a recurring character from the 2003 live-action film, Holes.
==Role in the film==
He is an African American merchant in the town of Green Lake. Sam has an onion farm across the lake. He sells sweet onions, and a wide variety of products and medicines made from his onions. He owns a donkey named Mary Lou.
Sam helps repair Kate's schoolhouse in exchange for her renowned spiced peaches. While helping Kate, they fall in love. When Sam kisses Kate, the townspeople burn the school. Sam attempts to escape on his boat, the "Mary Lou", but sadly, Trout Walker shoots him. In retaliation, Kate kills the local sheriff and resorts to a life of crime and murdering everyone who stands in her way, some that were involved in Sam's death. Years later, Sam's ghost appeared to Kate where their reunion was short lived when Trout and his wife Linda show up in which Sam's ghost disappeared. When Stanley arrived at Camp Green Lake, he spotted Sam's ghost before it disappeared again.
== Trivia ==
* Sam's spirit seems to have been behind the lake drying up. Until an injustice at Green Lake was resolved, he kept it cursed to never rain; notably after the Yelnats curse was broken, rain finally came as the crimes committed by the Walker family (killing Sam and forcing children to dig for the treasure) were acknowledged and the consequences for their actions led to Warden Walker's arrest.
Category:Live-action characters
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Category:African American characters
Category:Holes characters
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Category:Males
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Category:Farmers
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