Intersections

2 Panels I would like to discuss in class are the panel on page 301 and page 304. In these panels, Craig is very nervous about going to sleep with Raina in her bed. In that same panel you can tell that Craig looks shocked and kind of dumbfounded when she asks him this question. Then, on page 304, as he is undressing and ready to go to bed [with Raina] he starts reciting in his mind bible verses about the sin of the body with adultery and love and the fire burning within the man when he loves a woman kind of thing, and he looks just as worried and nervous about having a little "sleepover" with Raina! I found these very interesting because I think that he is only nervous because of the way his faith has brought him up to be.

In "Blankets" and "Oranges", the literature speaks to each other by having the same sort of concept when it comes to the individual's Christian upbringing and their own path of discovering who they really are. For example, I think that on page 60 in "Blankets", Craig is getting rid of his passion for art choosing God instead. In "Oranges" Jeannette was to choose between God and her relationships between Melissa and Katy. They are speaking in the sense that they are losing themselves in order to be close to God and continue their expected spiritual lives. In the end, both Craig and Jeannette leave their Christian ways and pursue their lives without Christianity as the center of it. With that point said, I would ;ike to add Emily Dickinson's poem, "Some Keep The Sabbath", she explains that she connects with God simply by discovering nature and not being a churchgoer. I think that she does what she wants to in her life, without God being the complete and utter center of it all. And I think it is what Craig and Jeannette do at the end of their stories, when they let go of their family's strict religious ways!