Holes Book Elya Yelnats

It all started with his great great grandfather elya yelnats who offended a gypsy named madame zeroni when he immigrated to or came to.

Holes book elya yelnats. The book centers on an unlucky teenage boy named stanley yelnats who is sent to camp green lake a juvenile detention cent. Madame zeroni told him to forget about her her head s as empty as a flower pot she suggested he go to america where her son lived. Actually his whole family is.

However a pig farmer name igor had already asked to marry her. Feb 9 1745 carrying the pig up the mountain. Elya is described as being a kind if somewhat idealistic teen.

Even though they all work very hard they have a lot of bad luck in their lives and elya begins to believe that madame zeroni has cursed him. He s far more interested in spending time with madame zeroni than he is in mud wrestling which is held up as the sport of desirable bachelors. His great great grandfather was a man named elya yelnats from lithuania.

While the authorities view the unfortunate stanley as a criminal the boys at camp green lake themselves delinquents cannot believe that stanley could or would steal a famous baseball player s shoes. We first encounter him as a young boy in latvia smitten with the beautiful village girl myra menke. Jan 27 1745 elya yelnats asks myra s father for myra s hand in marrige.

It s his broken promise to madame zeroni that dooms the yelnats family to one major curse. Stanley s great great grandfather stole a pig from a one legged gypsy who cursed the entire family. Elya yelnats is stanley s no good dirty rotten pig stealing great great grandfather who lives in the 1850s.

So elya sought the help of madame zeroni to win myra s hand marriage. 150 years ago elya yelnats was in love with the empty headed but beautiful myra menke. 1998 novel by louis sachar holes authorlouis sachar languageenglish genreadventure publisherfarrar straus and giroux bloomsbury publishing ediciones sm publication date august 20 1998 isbn978 0 786 22186 8 oclc3800257333232 dewey decimal 21 lc classpz7 s1185 ho 1998 holes is a 1998 young adult novel written by louis sachar and first published by farrar straus and giroux.