Holes
The main character
Who is Stanley Yelnats?
Dr. Jekyll creates Mr. Hyde to separate these two sides of human nature.
What is good and evil?
This character begins seeing visions, including a floating dagger and Banquo’s ghost.
Who is Macbeth?
Robinson Crusoe assumes he has the right to rule over this man, whom he renames and teaches to obey him.
Who is Friday?
This teenage girl narrates the novel and struggles to balance life in her neighborhood with life at a posh private school.
Who is Starr Carter?
Stanley and Zero discover this hidden item buried in the desert near Camp Green Lake.
What is a suitcase full of treasure?
In The Yellow Wallpaper the narrator’s mental state worsens because her husband dismisses her thoughts and takes this away from her.
What is her independence/freedom/controll of her own life?
This character in Hamlet experiences real psychological collapse after her father’s death.
Who is Ophelia?
Molly, Daisy, and Gracie use this landmark to guide themselves home across Australia.
What is the rabbit-proof fence?
After Khalil’s death, the media focuses more on his suspected drug dealing than on this larger societal issue.
What is police brutality?
Despite its name, its location is actually a dry desert with no lake.
What is Camp Green Lake?
This nurse uses strict control and humiliation to dominate the patients in the ward.
Who is Nurse Ratched?
Lady Macbeth obsessively imagines this on her hands as her guilt consumes her mind.
What is blood/spots?
Chimamanda Adichie warns that reducing people to one narrative creates this oversimplified and harmful perception.
What is a stereotype?
After Khalil’s death, Starr matures by learning to do this even when she feels afraid.
What is speak up for what is right?
These items symbolize survival, healing, and the connection between Sam and Zero’s family history.
What are onions?
In many of the works we have read, madness functions not only as an individual problem, but also as criticism of this larger force.
What is society?
Macbeth wants it and The Warden has it.
What is power?
This poem suggests that ruling over other nations is a heavy but moral responsibility of Western powers.
What is the “White Man’s Burden”?
The novel suggests that silence in the face of injustice allows this problem to continue.
What is systemic racism?
This camper earned his nickname because he gets jittery around nice cars
Who is Twitch?
This mysterious and unnatural force is feared because it can trigger paranoia, hysteria, and psychological collapse.
What is the supernatural?
Hamlet says he will fake madness in order to investigate this crime without raising suspicion.
What is the murder of his father?
Robinson Crusoe’s control of "his" island mirrors the expansion of this European system of domination.
What is colonialism?
The academic term for how Starr uses different ways of speaking and behaving depending on whether she is at Williamson Prep or in Garden Heights.
What is code-switching?