Holes

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Holes

• Chapter 7 onwards

• All will understand how the main plot develops
• Most should understand the relevance of the
  subplot
• Some could use evidence form the book to support
  the above

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Superstitions

• What superstition does Stanley believe in? Why?
• Are you superstitious? Of what and why?

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Good luck!

• Lucky to meet a black cat. Black Cats are
  featured on many good luck greetings cards and
  birthday cards in England.
• Lucky to touch wood. We touch knock on wood, to
  make something come true.
• Lucky to find a clover plant with four leaves.

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Bad luck!

• Unlucky to walk underneath a ladder.
• Seven years bad luck to break a mirror. The
  superstition is supposed to have originated in
  ancient times, when mirrors were considered to be
  tools of the gods.
• Unlucky to see one magpie.

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Stanleys bad luck

• Stanley's great-great-grandfather was from Latvia
  and his name was ______________
• When he was fifteen he fell in love with a pretty
  fourteen year old girl named _____________
• ___________ wanted to marry ___________ but so
  did Igor Barkov, a fifty-seven year old ______
  __________

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The history continued

• Elya cannot offer Myra's family a pig like Igor
  can so he visits his friend, ______________
  ____________, an old Egyptian woman with only one
  foot.
• _____________ _____________ gives Elya a small
  ________ to take care of.
• She teaches him a song and tells him that he must
  carry the pig up a ______________ where there is
  a stream with water that runs uphill.
• He must sing the song to the pig and let it drink
  from the water. If he does this every day then
  the pig will _________.

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Bad luck for Elya

• She also makes Elya promise that after he shows
  the pig to Myra's father he must carry her,
  Madame Zeroni, up the mountain and sing to her.
  If he does not, then she says she will put a
  ___________ on his family.
• Elya promises to fulfill all of Madame Zeroni's
  requests, but on the day that he brings the pig
  to Myra's house, he realizes that Myra is very
  ____________ and that she doesn't care who she
  marries.

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The curse

• Disillusioned, Elya gets on a boat bound for
  ____________, forgetting his promise to Madame
  Zeroni.
• In _____________ he learns English and marries a
  woman who is strong and smart.
• He teaches her the song that Madame Zeroni taught
  him, about a _______________ and a wolf who wish
  their life was easier.
• Elya and his wife have a son who they name
  ____________
• ____________
• 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 __________ him.