![]() ![]() When he arrives at Camp Green Lake, he quickly understands what he needs to do to survive. He loves and respects his parents in fact, he was trying to help his father by taking the smelly sneakers that had "fallen from the sky" home to him (his father was trying to invent a use for old sneakers). But Stanley is naive, innocent, and kindhearted, and he doesn't know how to be mean. Because he is larger in size than his classmates, teachers wrongly assume he can take care of himself when he is being mistreated, so they don't intervene and Stanley is left to fend for himself. He attributes this bad luck to his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grand-father," who caused Madame Zeroni to put a curse on the Yelnats family. He is overweight and is accustomed to having bad luck. As the novel begins, Stanley has low self-esteem. He changes during the course of the novel due to the influence and effect of his experiences and actions. Stanley, the protagonist of Holes, is a dynamic character. ![]()
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