![]() When Myra is unable to decide between her two suitors, Elya becomes disgusted, and realizes she is truly shallow. It is found to be exactly equal in weight to his rival's pig. If he does not follow through on this promise, he and his descendants will be cursed.Įlya readily agrees to this, and enthusiastically follows Madame Zeroni's instructions - until the final morning, when he does not take the pig up the mountain one last time. In return, Madame Zeroni requests that Elya carry her up the mountain and let her drink, too, once he is strong enough to do it. She tells him that if he carries the runt of her own pig's litter up the mountain every day, lets it drink at a special spring, and sings it a lullaby, that it will grow strong and heavy by the morning of Myra's birthday - and Elya will become stronger, too. Poor, young Elya despairs at first, but receives an unexpected chance at success thanks to his strange friend, old Madame Zeroni. ![]() ![]() ![]() Myra's father demands that both of Myra's suitors - Elya and a fifty-something pig farmer - bring him their best pig, and declares that Myra's future husband will be determined by which pig weighs more on the day of Myra's fifteenth birthday. In this historical flashback, Elya Yelnats is a fifteen-year-old Latvian boy who falls in love with a beautiful but shallow girl named Myra Menke. In Chapter 7, through flashbacks interwoven with Stanley's digging, we learn the story of Elya Yelnats and the origin of the Yelnats family curse. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |