#the birthmark

[briagrant]

the birthmark is retrieving bobby guys dw i was there

[buckaroo627]

Ryan and Oliver: trust between and they matter

What we see is the trust between them.

[derangedrhythms]

The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway, but suffers them to break forth, affrighting this actual life with secrets that perchance belong to a deeper one.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse; from 'The Birthmark'

[eddie-rifff]

[cryptidteaparty]

Second time reading The Birthmark for a school assignment

This man really goes, “Damn, girl, I love you so much, but that one tiny little feature that other people see as cute is fucking hideous and ruins your entire face, but I still love you, so why don’t you let me use FUCKING ACID to remove it?”

[abookishidentity]

Short stories I remember

In various english classes throughout my schooling I have read short stories that I remember to this day. Here are some in no particular order. And stories other than by Edgar Allen Poe. If I think of more I will create another list.

The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant. All I remember about this story is that this poor woman loses a rich woman's necklace and spends so much time and effort paying it back. All for the rich woman to say something like "Oh that piece of crap? It's cheap" Woman spent all that effort for nothing. I want to say I had to compare this story to an episode of The Simpsons?

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell. The most dangerous game is hunting humans. Dude gets away and kills the other dude. Magnificent. I remember having to write my own version of the story. I made them both kids in elementary school or something.

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Who doesn't love reading a woman going mad? I think I liked the language in this story.

The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Husband hates his wife's birthmark. It's an obsession. Tries so hard to get rid of it. Finally he does at the end but the birthmark is part of her or something and she dies. Nathaniel's writing style is so emotional and raw. I love it.

Sales Pitch by Phillip K. Dick. Oh man this one is quite good. Futuristic science fiction world. Can travel the stars and shit. Advertising everywhere though. Real in your face shit. A robot comes to a couples home and essentially tries to advertises itself. Won't take no for an answer. Man flies off into space at the end and tries to kill it. Doesn't work out for him.

[jadeydoodlebug]

It’s the one time a year where I get to do art in my classes, so check it, yo.

We have to fill the five boxes and the border with drawings and thematic writing (?) about the story we read. If you haven’t read The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne, it’s about a mad scientist who married the most beautiful woman, but was obsessed with her one “flaw”- a hand-shaped birthmark on her cheek. They both go to great lengths to remove it, but it only ever is removed after her death.

The top left box references a dream the scientist had about how he tried cutting away the birthmark, and he kept cutting until he found that it was attached to her heart.

The bottom right shows the remnants of the elixir that ended up removing the mark and killing her in the process.

I only really ended up liking the heart because I was pleasantly surprised at how using purple to shade worked.

Okay, that’s it. I just finished it and wanted to share hahaha

[sneezes]