holes 2

now that Stanley has moved to to him tent and started to get familiar with the way things are done around the camp he still feels on the outside. they are woken up at about 4:30 in the morning which seems to Stanley about the time he fell asleep, they are heading out to start digging his first hole! each of the were handed a 5 foot long shovel and were marched across the dryed up lake. Stanley has trouble with him hole right from the start. he has trouble getting it started thanks to the crusted top layer of earth he has to break throught then oncec he gets started he keeps dumping the dirt he shovels right back in to his hole. also throughout the chapters it flash backs to how his great great no good dirty rotten pig stealing grandfather became so unlucky. at 15 he fell in love with a girl in his home town and wanted to marrie her but so did another creepy old guy so the father of the girl said that who ever brought him a fatter pig on him daughters 15th birthday would be allowed to marrie his daughter. so he went to madam zeronie an old egyptian woman who lived on the outskirts of town. she told him to take her smallest piglet and ever day carry him up a mountain and sing him a song and he will grow big and strong. but the deal was that after he brought the pig to the father of the girl he had to go back to madam zeronie and carry her up the mountain so that she could grow big and strong. but when things didnt work out with the ather and daughter stanleys great great grand father left the country for america leaving madam zeronie to die so she cursed him and all of his ancestors.