Holes | Critical Overview
Critical discussions of Holes, like critical discussions of most young adult novels, are relatively infrequent and tend to fall into certain predictable categories: reviews of the book, interviews with the author, and articles on how to teach the book. However, in all discussions of Holes, certain themes repeat time and again, and all critics praise the author for the same reasons. The first of these is the emotional reality of the bookâits institutional setting, the sense of injustice, the importance of peers, and so on. Second is the setting itself, meaning both Camp...
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