WEEK FIVE; Blankets

This week was a very special week. It was unlike anything I’ve read this semester. It was emotional, it was heart felt, and very, very, forward in the questions it asked. Growing up in a similar situation, he vocalized a lot of the questions I felt growing up. Questions I never knew how to formulate. Questions I never felt I could ask anyone. There was something different about his narrative though; the way it depicted love was very unique. It wasn’t an idealic depictions with fairies and magic. This depictions was real. It showed an innocent love, it should a siblings love, it showed a selfish love. It showed the love from parents to child, from friend to friend, and a lustful, passionate love. It showed how we can often abuse love in different ways, each way differing depending on the type of relationship and love shared in that relationship. It also showed how love changes as we grow older, how we change with it, and how it never really changes that much, just becomes more mature and sometimes, too stable. This goes along with one of the most important parts to the story. The young man allowed himself to be in love, and to love a young women. He was intelligent enough to see though, that when she started to keep him at an arms distance it was time for the relationship to come to a close. Knowing when love is being abused is so difficult. Knowing you have to let it go and actually doing it, is even worse. This was what he learned though. It is a lesson I wish I had learned sooner. This graphic novel really was impossible to put down once started. It is one I will remember and appreciate for a long time to come, and I’m so happy to have been able to read it.

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