Holes Book Elya Yelnats

His great great grandfather was a man named elya yelnats from lithuania.

Holes book elya yelnats. 150 years ago elya yelnats was in love with the empty headed but beautiful myra menke. Elya is referred to as stanley s no good dirty rotten pig stealing great great grandfather he s responsible for cursing the yelnats family after he broke a promise to his friend madame zeroni. Elya is described as being a kind if somewhat idealistic teen.

Actually his whole family is. Elya yelnats grew up in latvia and when he was fifteen he fell in love with a beautiful girl named myra. Elya yelnats is stanley s no good dirty rotten pig stealing great great grandfather who lives in the 1850s.

Stanley s great great grandfather stole a pig from a one legged gypsy who cursed the entire family. He wanted to marry a. Stanley yelnats is cursed.

The book centers on an unlucky teenage boy named stanley yelnats who is sent to camp green lake a juvenile detention cent. 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. It all started with his great great grandfather elya yelnats who offended a gypsy named madame zeroni when he immigrated to or came to.

After discovering that myra is empty headed and. 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. 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.

Holes explores the different ways in which people are viewed by themselves and by others. We first encounter him as a young boy in latvia smitten with the beautiful village girl myra menke. 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.