Myra Menke

Myra Menke is a minor character featured in the film Holes. She live in Latvia, and is daughter of a wealthy landlord. She was friends with and attracted to Elya Yelnats. Elya wanted to marry Myra, and talked to her father. however. All he had to offer was a heart full of love, to which Myra thought was sweet. He was unable to compete with a fellow suitor, Igor Barkov, who had offered his largest pig.

To get help, Elya went to, Madame Zeroni who, despite warning him Myra was spoiled and empty-headed, gave him one of her pigs and, and a way to make it grow larger - he had to carry it up a nearby mountain every day and sing a song to it as it drank from the stream there. However, he missed the last day, and the pig ended up the same size as the pig Igor offered. Elya suggested that Myra choose, she didn't know who to choose. She had to resort to number games in order to decide between Elya and Igor despite that Igor was old enough to be her father and quite crude. Elya is shocked and disgusted that she is as empty-headed as Madame Zeroni had warned. despite the fact that Igor was old enough to be her father and quite crude. Elya decides not to marry Myra, and left his pig as a wedding gift.