Mr. sir followed stanley back to his hole to see how he was doing. "you better get with it," he said. "or else you're going to be digging in the hottest part of the day." he popped some sunflower seeds into his mouth, deftly removed the shells with his teeth, and spat them into stanley's hole.

every day elya carried the little piglet up the mountain and sang to it as it drank from the stream. as the pig grew fatter, elya grew stronger.

—holes,
louis sachar

why does the author move from stanley’s plotline to elya’s at this point in the story?

a) to show that both worked hard
b) to show that both had problems
c) to show how tired both were