How do the words "if only, if only" parallel Stanley's predicament? They parallel the fact that Stanley can go home only after he has completed his time at the camp. They parallel Stanley's homesickness and longing to be with his parents. They parallel how lonely Stanley feels most of the time at school and at the camp. They parallel Stanley's wish that things had turned out differently for him.

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Sarah changed the words of the pig lullaby so that they rhymed, and every night she sang it to little Stanley.

“If only, if only,” the woodpecker sighs,

“The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies.”

While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,

Crying to the moo–oo–oon,

“if only, if only.”

How do the words “if only, if only” parallel Stanley’s predicament?

They parallel the fact that Stanley can go home only after he has completed his time at the camp. They parallel Stanley’s homesickness and longing to be with his parents. They parallel how lonely Stanley feels most of the time at school and at the camp. They parallel Stanley’s wish that things had turned out differently for him.

They parallel Stanley’s wish that things had turned out differently for him.

Explanation:

This question is about "Holes" written by Louis Sachar.

In this story we are introduced to Stanley a boy who was cursed by his grandfather due to several disastrous circumstances in his life ended up in a concentration camp where he suffered many abuses and lived a degrading life.

Stanley often finds himself wondering what he would be like now if everything that happened in his life had happened differently. It is as if he thinks "if only I could have lived differently" and that is the parallel between Sarah's song and Stanley's situation.