Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. This book is his testimony of how he philosophically arrived on the map as a young man. The writing is deliberate and reflects a serious amount of caution, as if the events about which he writes are preserved with religious severity in Thompson's mind. Looking for a thoughtful coming of age story? This is the one. At the same time, Thompson writes about her with such a tenderness that one can easily identify the significance of her in his adult life. Her significance is as a trigger rather than an individual. Due to his adolescence and arbitrarily strict upbringing, Craig doubtless would have encountered the same moral dilemmas with or without Raina. The point is that regardless of whether Craig had met Raina when he did or not he was about to start reframing his beliefs. The book is Thompson's personal bildungsroman, a story of the loss of innocence and the dawning of experience. He begins to question the values his parents raised him to uphold because the girl affirms him in ways that he never thought possible. While there, he meets and falls in love with a girl. He centers the story around his time at a Christian summer camp as a teenager.

In his autobiographical account of young love and self-discovery - Blankets - Craig Thompson walks readers through his adolescent awakening.

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