Stanley Yelnats 2867472 224175845 2008-07-07T17:48:36Z TimR 30550 formatting {| class="infobox" style="width: 15em;" |- ! colspan="2" style="font-size: small; background-color:Brown; color:White;" | ''[[Holes (novel)|Holes]]'' character |- | colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | <!-- Commented out because image was deleted: [[Image:Stanleyyelnats.jpg|180px]] --> |- ! colspan="2" style="font-size: small; background-color:Brown; color:White;" | Stanley Yelnats IV |- |'''Camp Green Lake nickname''' || "Caveman" |- |'''Family''' || [[Yelnats family]] |- |'''Relatives''' || Stanley Yelnats III (father)<br> Unnamed (mother)<br> Stanley Yelnats II (grandfather)<br> Stanley Yelnats I (great-grandfather)<br> Unnamed (great-grandmother)<br> Elya Yelnats (great-great-grandfather)<br> [[Sarah Miller]] (great-great-grandmother) |- |'''Portrayed by''' || [[Shia LaBeouf]] |- |} '''Stanley Elya "Caveman" Yelnats IV''' is the [[protagonist]] character in the [[novel]] ''[[Holes (novel)|Holes]]''. Stanley believes that he is in the wrong place at the wrong time because his family was afflicted with an old [[Roma people|gypsy]] [[curse]], because his [[grandparent|great-great-grandfather]], who lived in [[Latvia]], failed to carry a crippled gypsy woman up a mountain in exchange for the [[pig]] she had given him. ==In the movie== In the movie version, Stanley is played by [[Shia LaBeouf]]. He is shown living in a small apartment with his mother, father, and grandfather, giving a sense of the closeness the family shares. In the book, Stanley is overweight and loses weight during the course of the book. However, in the film his average weight is maintained throughout the entire film. Many of the issues in the book stemmed from Stanley looking down on himself for being overweight. However, in the bonus features on the [[DVD]], it is explained that continuity issues forced this change: scenes were not always shot in order, so his weight would have to continuously change. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==See also== *[[Holes (novel)]] *[[Holes (film)]] *[[Louis Sachar]] *[[Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Yelnats, Stanley}} [[Category:Characters in written fiction]]