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Elya Yelnats fell in love with Myra Menke and she asks her dad if he can marry her daughter.Myra's dad had another person who was courting Myra but to make it fair, they had to bring Myra's dad the biggest pig in a limited amount of time.

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Elya meets Madame Zeroni, who is a fortune teller of some sort. She tells Elya that if he carries a pig up the mountain while singing a song and akes the pig drink from the water stream, then the pig will grow very big in a short amount of time.

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Elya makes a deal with Madame Zeroni that once the pig is big enough to offer to Myra's dad then Elya will have to carry Madame Zeroni up the mountain so that she too can become strong. If Elya does not carry Madame Zeroni then She will curse the Yelnats for life.

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So Elya carries the pig up the mountain everyday, making the pig drink from the water stream while he sings a song.

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Eventually the pig got very big and strong. Elya offers the pig to Myra's father but once both of the pigs were weighed, they were both the same size. Myra makes both of them choose a number and whoever the closest to Myra's number will marry her.

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Elya Yelnats left and let them keep the pig as a wedding present because he was so devastated that Myra didn't see the obvious choice and made them play a game of chance.

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Elya Yelnats was so devastated that he left everything behind and went to America on a ship. He didn't finish his deal with Madame Zeroni which made her furious and cursed the Yelnats name forever.

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Once Elya Yelnats arrived to America by ship, he settled there and married a woman named Sarah Miller and they had kids which was destined to meet Madame Zeroni's great grandson.