I remember in the begining their was sumthing about an old man with a piece of string. can someone clear me up on that?
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The old man was Ernie and Lars' father, who had a lifelong obsession with string. He immigrated to the US as a young man and found that small piece of string the day he arrived in America. It gave him good luck - he began to work in string, opened up a large factory(in the days when industry and factories were the basis of life in the northern US), and ascended to wealth and good fortune.
He kept the small piece of string all those years and gave it to Lars on his deathbed.
He died, and requested to his two sons that no matter what, they should never sell the factory after it gets passed down to them. The string, although small and seemingly insignificant, was what bought so much good luck to not only the father and his family, but the entire community, where probably many of its citizens were employed.
"Don't let's ask for the moon-we have the stars"