They suffer from an endless string of bad luck. Stanley Yelnats comes from a very hard working family, but the curse continues to afflict them all. The no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather realises that his beloved doesn’t actually love him, so runs away to America, forgetting to carry Madame Zeroni up the hill. When he’s done with that, he was to carry Madame Zeroni up the hill too, so that she could grow strong too. If he repeats this every day the pig will grow big and strong and he will be able to gift it to his beloved’s father. The no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather must carry a pig up a mountain, let it drink from a stream while he sings to it. His no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather approached his mystic friend, Madame Zeroni, for help in winning his beloved’s hand in marriage. Holes, written by Louis Sachar, follows young Stanley Yelnats as he tries to make it through his teenage years fighting an ancestral curse.
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