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Chapter 7 explained
A curse?
Elya and his wife have a son that they name Stanley. Stanley is Yelnats backwards.
Even though they all work very hard, they have a lot of bad luck in their lives and Elya starts to believe that Madame Zeroni really cursed them.
... And that is why Stanley and his family blames his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather when things go wrong.
Madame Zeroni
So what happened?
Elya carried the pig up the mountain every day, pig got bigger, Elya got stronger.
... Every day except for Myra's 15th birthday. Elya did not want to go there smelling like a pig.
The pigs weighed the same.
Elya went to America instead.
Old Egyptian woman, friend of Elya's
Tells him to go to America.
Gives Elya a small pig, tells him to carry it up a mountain to drink from a stream.
Makes Elya promise to carry her up the mountain too.
"Madame Zeroni warned that if he failed to do this, he and his descendants would be doomed for all eternity"
Elya Yelnats
From Latvia.
15 years old: in love with Myra Menke
Competes with Igor Barkov to marry her.
Igor offers a pig, Elya a heart full of love.
Two plots - two stories
Main plot:
Stanley Yelnats IV, first full day at Camp Green Lake.
Has a hard time digging his first hole, ground is hard and he gets blisters on his hands.
Mr Pendanski tells Stanley that if he finds anything interesting, he must tell a counselor because the Warden wants to know about interesting finds.