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A Very Brief Story Of Stanley Yelnats

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Stanley Yelnats’ family has a history of bad luck, on one day he walked through the streets and a pair of shoes from a famous baseball player Clyde ‘Sweet feet’ Livingston, fell on his head and he was taken by the police. They brought him to a court and the judge gave him a choice to go to prison or go to Camp Green Lake. Stanley had chosen for Camp Green Lake and he had to stay there for eighteen months. What he did not know is that the shoes came from a boy Zero( Hector Zeroni)he had dropped the shoes down from a bridge because he thought that the police was after him.
So, Stanley goes to Camp Green Lake a camp with boys, he must dig a hole every day the hole was five feet deep and five feet across in the dried up lake bed. The bosses of the camp claims that boys must dig up the truth, but that is a lie. The great-great-grandfather Elya Yelnats stole a pig from a farmer because he loved a girl and a other man did also they were a race for her so he stole a pig to win her heart. A woman, Madam Zeroni said ‘take a little pig and lift the pig and walk on the mountain, if you are up in the mountain sing a song so your pig will get stronger.’
And Elya must carry Madame Zeroni before he goes to America and sang a song and let her drink the water from the mountain. But Myra married the old man Igor, Elya was so angry, so he forgot to carry Madam Zeroni and he went to America. And since that day he always has bad luck and his descendants also has that bad luck. Madam Zeroni had

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