Blankets

In the text blankets I found it interesting that Craig always turned certain things into demons. This happened throughout the book whenever he thought something was wrong. An example of this was on pages 16-17 when Craig's father is putting his brother, Phil, into the cubby room because they were being too loud upstairs. There are two panels next to each other, the first is the Dad going into the small cubby room and opening something that looks like an alligators mouth. There are teeth coming off of it and it looks like the mouth is being pushed more and more open. In the back of the picture Phil looks terrified of where his Dad is putting him. In the next panel however it shows that the "mouth of an alligator" actually is only a cot being unfolded. I found it interesting that the author made the cot seem like such an unplesant thing. I think this is because the two boys had "sinned" and the cubby room represented a "hell" to the young boys. It was seen as a punishment to go into that room and especially alone, since they slept in the same bed through their childhood. The author has a theme going through the story that whenever something seems to be bad, or a sin, it turns into a creepy demon. Another example of this is when Criag drew a picture of a naked woman on the bus. His bus driver contacted the parents who then talked to Craig about the picture. In a panel on page 208 the woman in the picture started to scare Craig. Craig was scared of this picture because he knew that God did not want him to be drawing naked women and it was a "sin". There also was a panel,on the same page, where Craig was looking at a picture of Jesus and Jesus' back was turned to him. This symbolized that Craig had sinned, and he was afraid of that. The demons continued through Criags life. When Craig was visiting his friend Raina he was staying in her sisters bedroom and thought of a story in the bible. It was of a woman who bled for 12 years and when she touched Jesus she suddenly was cured. Jesus asked "Who touched me?" For some reason after thinking of this story Craigs imagination went wild. On page 223 there was a picture of the stuffed animals in the room, all of them have really big eyes that look crazy and each one is asking "Who touched me?" I find this really interesting because I don't necessarily find the coorilation between the story and the stuffed animals. I assume, from the pattern in the book, that Craig has thought of something unholy. I don't exactly have an interpretation for this panel, I just found it very odd.