Respect my Authority!

My close reading on Blankets will be on the last three panels of page 80. Craig is at winter bible camp and he is seen reading the Bible. A boy in the bunk below him sees what he is doing and starts to make fun of him for it. In the second panel Craig lies and says he was only organizing his things and not actually reading the Bible. The third panel shows him putting his bible away and asking for God's forgiveness. I find these panels very interesting because in the Bible God always said to stand up for what you believe in and Craig doesn't do this, he pretends to hate it there as much as the rest of the group does to fit in better or avoid humiliation.  In the first panel the boy who is making fun of Craig looks very dopy and dumb well Craig just looks annoyed. In the second one they have more of the same expression. The third panel shows Craig's shame with the dark lines down his face.

Craig's relationship with his father is the most interesting to me. It reminds me of my relationship with my father, though maybe not to that extreme. There is a level of fear that plays an important role between them. I believe this fear calms down in the middle of the book however because Craig doesn't seem to be so afraid to ask if he could stay with his girlfriend for a few weeks.