41 pages • 1 hour read
The Foxhole Court
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Content Warning: This section of the guide discusses violence, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and substance use.
What does the novel’s distinction between visible wounds (Kevin Day’s hand) and concealed trauma (Neil Josten’s scars, Andrew Minyard’s armbands) suggest about performed identity and the characters’ divergent survival strategies?
How does the novel use the rigid, public structure of a sports season to frame and explore the chaotic, private nature of its characters’ psychological traumas?
Examine Andrew Minyard’s character as a structural device. How do his calculated shifts between medicated and sober states function to systematically test Neil’s defenses, control the narrative’s flow of information, and escalate plot tension?
