This weeks reading

This week we read the short story The Birthmark. This story is about a scientist who wishes to remove his wife’s birthmark, the only thing keeping her from being all around perfect. The story goes through the process of him and his wife discussing the birthmark, all the way to him trying to remove it. In the end the wife ends up dying. While reading it I thought it was super boring and kind of weird. But once I finished the story and started to analyze it and discover the author’s purpose I thought it was so clever. The birthmark was a symbol of our imperfections and that when we try to alter those imperfections we are punished. I was able to use this story for my literary device paper, so worked out pretty well. I thought it was boring because I just wanted it to get to the point already. It felt like it was so dragged out. The time that it was written in is very different then the way things are now so I had to grasp that concept before I read it. For example husbands now would most likely not bring up something that was wrong with their wife such as a birthmark and ask if they could try to remove it. I think as a class we should have gone over the reading. That way we could have seen what other people might have thought the authors purpose was, I'd be interested to hear that. 

I didn’t really think that any of the things that we read this week were very interesting. But once we start reading books I think there will be more to talk about and it will start becoming more exciting.  I thought that writing the paragraphs that then showed up on the big screen was pretty cool, that way we got to read what other groups were saying and could add things that we thought needed to be there. I think that each group should have had to read what their paragraphs said out loud because no group read what the other groups wrote and that way we all could have gotten a little bit more out of the assignment.

I didn’t read anyone else’s blogs but I think I might to see what others are thinking about the class. It’d be fun if the prompts were a little bit more exciting because it’d be easier to write them each week. For example, we should have to add in what we did that weekend or share something interesting that we read or did on our own. Those things could in in addition the original prompt. It's just hard to write all 500 words on something that we didn't do that much of this week.