I would like to write my thoughts about Elya Yelnats, Stanley's so-called no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.
When he was young, Elya falls in love with a 14-year-old-girl Myra. Her father decides to get her daughter married in her 15th birthday. A 57-year-old man called Igor also wants to marry Myra and her father declares that he will give her daughter to the person giving the most valuable thing. He explains his problem to a Gypsy called Madame Zeroni and she gives him a piglet. She tells him that he should bring the piglet to the river in a mountain and make it drink from there. The piglet would be gradually bigger and at last he would take Myra by giving the pig. But he makes a mistake as he doesn't bring the pig to the river in the day the father makes his decision, and it weights the same as the pig of Igor. Elya gets angry because Myra is undecided and let his rival marry the girl. Then, as Madame Zeroni suggested to him, he migrates to the USA, without fulfilling his promise of carrying Madame to the river. Since that time, he and his descendants have been cursed by her.
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(Photo: Madame Zeroni)
(Photo: Madame Zeroni)
A well written entry yiğit, and I also used the same picture as this, because it was the best one I could find :D
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