Craig Thompson's Blankets Essay

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In Craig Thompson’s book Blankets we look into his own life and his reflection on his past experiences and how that has made him the person he is. In the book we follow Craig as he journeys from being a child where he faced many challenges with his brother, to now being older and dealing with issues of love and faith. Craig in the book ends up being with a girl called Raina, who he grows feelings for. In the book, however it is truly unclear whether they truly loved one another or simply felt lust for each other. In the book Craig is constantly in a battle with himself and his faith due to Raina, mainly because he sees her as a godly figure in parts of the book, which is very unhealthy instead of just seeing her as another person he cares …show more content…

The blanket he is holding in the image from the book, he looks at it with a sense of sadness and disappointed look on Craigs face, when thinking about Jesus and its comparison to the blanket Raina had made him.
In the novel the scene from(pg,565), is truly the essence of the book as a whole. The idea that Craig Blindly falls in love with a Raina, but by doing so loses parts of his character that made him the person that he is.
In the image, a passage from the bible is put, where it talks about the kingdom of god and that the kingdom of god is in all people and not a physical thing you can see. The idea of not being to able to visually see the kingdom of god is shown in the image of Jesus with people around him. Additionally, the humans under Jesus have their eyes close, whereas Craig has his eyes open looking at the blanket realizing that the blanket that he believed was his comfort and his faith was all wrong. In the end Craig feels as though he becomes so infatuated with Raina who he had seen as that image of God and his faith, let to him in the end feeling as though he has been made the wrong choice in seeing another human as a

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