Because he always hides what he's thinking and feeling, and because he keeps to himself, people assume Zero is stupid, but he isn't. He is quite intelligent and is particularly good in math. Zero watches Stanley write letters to his mother, and, finally, when he thinks he can trust Stanley, Zero admits that he can't read or write.
He asks Stanley to teach him. Zero becomes frustrated when the Warden forbids Stanley to teach him, and Zero runs away. When Stanley finds Zero in the desert, they become loyal friends. Zero reveals that his name is Hector Zeroni, that he has been homeless for most of his life, and that he has no family.
He is a "ward of the state. He was sent to Camp Green Lake because he'd stolen a pair of sneakers from a store the day after he'd taken Clyde Livingston's sneakers. After finding the suitcase belonging to Stanley's great-grandfather, Zero used some of his money which amounted to almost a million dollars to hire private investigators to find his mother.
The investigators succeed, and Zero and his mother are reunited. Madame Zeroni is an old Egyptian gypsy storyteller. She is dark-skinned and has a wide mouth. Because she has no left foot, she uses a wheelchair.
She is a compassionate woman, and yet she is also realistic. She tells him that the girl's head is empty, that she is foolish and spoiled. And then she spits on the dirt the same way Zero spits in each hole after he finishes digging. She gives Elya a piglet and specific instructions about what he needs to do in order to ensure that the pig will be large enough to win Myra's hand in marriage.
Because Elya does not follow her instructions, Madame Zeroni puts a curse on him and on future generations of Yelnats. Elya Yelnats is Stanley's "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather" who is blamed for everything bad that happens to future generations of his family. Although he never actually steals a pig, his actions cause Madame Zeroni to put a curse on him and all his descendants.
When Elya is 15 years old, living in Latvia, he falls in love with Myra Menke and wants to marry her. Igor, a pig farmer, also wants to marry Myra and offers a pig for her hand in marriage. Not knowing what to do, Elya goes to see Madame Zeroni. Madame Zeroni gives Elya a piglet along with specific instructions. He is to take the pig up the mountain each day and sing a lullaby to the pig as it drinks from the stream. On the last day, he is to take the pig up the mountain before taking it to Myra's father and then carry Madame Zeroni up the mountain, too, singing the lullaby to her as she drinks from the stream.
Because he is vain and doesn't want to smell like a pig when he goes to Myra's house to try to win her hand in marriage, Elya doesn't take the pig up the mountain the last day, nor does he take Madame Zeroni up the mountain.
When he realizes that Myra doesn't love him, Elya gives her father the pig anyway and leaves on a ship for the United States, where he meets and marries Sarah Miller. Elya and Sarah have a good marriage, despite the fact that they suffer from much bad luck.
Elya never gives up looking for Madame Zeroni's son, who was also in the United States, because he feels guilty about not fulfilling his promise to her. Stanley Yelnats II is Stanley's great-grandfather, who made a lot of money in the stock market. He is left stranded in the desert for three weeks. When asked how he survived, he always replies, "I found refuge on God's thumb" the same mountain that Stanley and Zero climb.
He later marries the nurse who takes care of him in the hospital and always blames his "no-good-pig-stealing-father" for his ordeal. Katherine Barlow is Green Lake's only schoolteacher. She is a very pretty and kind person. Everyone in the town loves her jarred peaches the same jarred peaches that Zero and Stanley found under the boat named "Mary Lou".
Because the town's one-room schoolhouse needs repairs, Katherine trades her jarred peaches for the handiwork of Sam the Onion Man.
During the time Sam makes the repairs to the schoolhouse, Katherine and Sam fall in love. At that time, a relationship between a black man and a white woman was illegal and unacceptable in Green Lake; the community members are intolerant. They destroy the schoolhouse and, as Sam and Katherine try to escape in his rowboat named after his donkey, Mary Lou, they kill Sam and rescue Katherine, against her wishes.
Three days later, Katherine shoots the town sheriff, who would not help her save Sam from the townspeople, and she becomes Kissin' Kate Barlow, a ruthless outlaw of the Wild West. Sir's Daughter: The Only Girl Sir's daughter is a counsellor at Camp Green Lake. She is only young, but the campers treat her with as much respect as they give the other counsellors.
Sir is v Hailie is sent to Camp Green Lake an all boys detention camp. How will the boys react having a girl around and will she be able to look after herself or will she need so Troubled Ones by Cecilia Marisa Cullen's was always forgotten by her family.
When her mom died when she was 10 her dad took his pain out on her. She joined a gang and started street fighting. She was ordinary while he was extraordinary He was an unimaginable while she was a fantasy they were two ends of the same edge that would never be apart but also opposi Residents of Green Lake seek out both Doc Hawthorn's services as well as Sam's onion potions, and neither man is bothered by this arrangement.
Doc Hawthorn himself uses an onion cream for balding. Linda Walker is Trout Walker's wife. Though Kate remembers Linda as one of her former students and a pleasant one , after her marriage, Linda becomes just as cold and mean as her husband. Squid is one of the boys in Tent D.
When Stanley is released from Camp Green Lake, Squid asks him to call his mother and relay to her that he's sorry, using his given name, Alan. Magnet is a Mexican boy in Tent D.
He implies that he was arrested for theft, and he steals Mr. Sir's sunflower seeds at camp. During one of Mr. Pendanski's conversations, Magnet suggests he'd like to train animals for movies.
Aside from Stanley , Armpit is the biggest boy in Tent D. He's often angry and can be violent. A woman in Green Lake who thanks Sam for curing her daughter with onions. The boy whose place Stanley takes at Camp Green Lake. He left the camp and was hospitalized because he purposefully stepped on a rattlesnake.
A boy assigned to Tent D to take Zero's place. His real name is Brian and he was arrested for stealing a car. The guard accompanies Stanley to Camp Green Lake. The driver who takes Stanley to Camp Green Lake. He cautions Stanley to be careful. The Texas Attorney General accompanies Ms.
Morengo to pick up Stanley from Camp Green Lake. He's tall and wears a cowboy hat. Stanley thinks Zigzag is the weirdest kid at Camp Green Lake. Zigzag is very violent and does not even apologize to Stanley after hitting him in the head with a shovel.
The Warden is the ultimate symbol of cruel authority at Camp Green Lake. She rewards only those who do what she wants and uses her power to threaten everyone else. She has hidden cameras that she uses to spy on the boys and nail polish with rattlesnake venom that she will use to scratch those who displease her.
She is a descendent of Charles and Linda Walker and is making the boys dig holes in an attempt to dig up Kate Barlow's treasure. Kate Barlow is the schoolteacher-turned-outlaw who robbed Stanley's great- grandfather. She lived on Green Lake one hundred and ten years ago, when there was still water in it. While intelligent and kind by nature, the murder of her beloved Sam turns Kate into a violent outlaw who lives on the wrong side of the law. Sam and Kate were in love one hundred and ten years ago.
Sam knew how to make many medicinal remedies out of onions and he was strong and smart. He also loved his donkey, Mary Lou. Because he was black, Sam suffered from racism, which prevented him from attending school or being with Kate. Sam is killed by the racist people of Green Lake after he and Kate kiss. Charles is the son of the richest family in Green Lake at the same time that Kate Barlow is the school teacher.
He is spoiled and stupid and gets upset when things are denied to him. When Kate Barlow refuses to go out with him he becomes very angry. It is Charles who leads the citizens of Green Lake to burn down the schoolhouse and kill Sam after he kisses Kate.
Charles also has a very bad foot odor caused by a fungus. For this reason people call him Trout, because his feet smell like dead fish. Elya is Stanley's great-great-grandfather and the reason that Stanley's family has such bad luck. After becoming disillusioned with the woman he thought he loved in Latvia, Elya travels to America, forgetting to fulfill a promise that he made to the gypsy, Madame Zeroni.
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