Stanley Yelnats has a no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. The Yelnats family is cursed because of his pig-stealing ways. Stanley is always in the wrong place at the wrong time, and one day, when running shoes drop out of the sky, he thinks things are looking up. A couple minutes later, while running home with the shoes, he gets stopped by a police officer. "Where'd you get the shoes," he's asked. "They fell from the sky," he replies. Then he gets arrested. Poor Stanley Yelnats. Then he has to go dig holes at Camp Green Lake. Later, he eats tons of onions. He also almost dies in the desert and almost gets bitten by a yellow lizard (with black teeth and a white tongue). Stanley Yelnats is a neat name because it is the same backwards and forwards.
I LOVE CHILDREN'S LITERATURE! Ahahahaha. I was at the Steacie Library at York today, the science library, where everyone around me was studying a textbook of some sort. In the middle of it all, I pulled out my battered copy of the children's novel, Holes, and proceeded to read it. It is HILARIOUS! I think you have to read it though. I laughed out loud at a line today (the title of this blog entry) and shared it with my friend, but she didn't really think it was that funny. I think you have to read the whole thing to truly appreciate the subtleties of Holes. But yep, by Louis Sachar, go pick it up and re-capture your childhood! It's tons of fun, especially at university. AHahaha. I hope no one noticed how big the writing in my novel was. ;)
P.S. On a more serious note, the only way that someone who has hurt you in the past can keep hurting you is if you dwell on the situation and resent them for it. If you keep resenting them, the hurt just keeps going. We need to forgive and move on.
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