Beyond The Page

This weblog is for DeWitt High School's Advanced Placement English Literature class. Students post responses and literary analysis here on themes and techniques used in notable books. This is a team blog and only team members may participate. Check the email address you gave Mr. DeLaCruz for detailed posting instructions.

Wednesday, September 07, 2016

The Kite Runner Week 3 Madison Deiter

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini brought up so many emotions and even left me in tears at some points. I haven't read a book like The ...

Tuesday, September 06, 2016

The Road Week 4-Madison Deiter

“The Killer” A Sonnet –Maddison Deiter Inspired by: The Road by Cormac McCarthy How can someone try to love a killer? He only has sl...

Week 1 Running With Scissors- Madison Deiter

One book that has had a lasting impact on me was Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs. I read this last year in AP Lang as one of th...

Sunday, August 14, 2016

Prynne and Offred - Nick Brandt

While in the course of our minute existences, we incur a toll on the psyche. Whether self-imposed, cast upon us by a rigid society, or b...

Week 8 Explanation

For this week’s blog I’d like you to make comments on the posts of anyone who has participated. Find three different posts to comment on, p...

Hester Prynne and Sula Peace - Martin

Characters are important parts of most novels. Their decisions and interactions are an essential part of the plot. A character can make or...

Saturday, August 13, 2016

Hester and Celie - Hostetler

Up until recent decades, society has assigned roles to people by their gender and has been heavily oppressive of women. The capabilities of ...

Hester Prynne and Shug Avery - Dickens

Throughout our lives, we will come across all sorts of people: big, small, short, tall, smart, athletic, weird, the list goes on. However, ...

Hester and Offred - Elzinga

In the books The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne the characters of Hester Prynne and Off...

Hamlet and Sydney Carton - Koski

Characters in literature are often challenged with multiple astounding tasks; thus in reality, authors are challenged to create characters ...

Hassan and Celie- Kransberger

“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini and “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker are very different novels with very different story lines. Howe...

Celie and Meursault--Beck

Character development is an essential component to every type of storytelling. Quality characters that are interesting, complex, and relat...

Offred and Biff- Hegerfeld

People differ in millions of ways from the way they look to the way someone thinks. Although there are very many areas where people differ,...

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