Saturday, February 20, 2016

Blankets

Craig like the prisoners believing that shadows are "real" is in his own little world. I say this because as we see throughout the book Craig is so sheltered in his own world/imagination. He is like this because he is always surrounded by family, the drawings, and the imaginations that he is always having. So for him to be like the prisoners in believing that shadows are "real" I can see how he is like that just because of what we know about him. What Craig comes to realize is that he isn't the only one who seems to be seeing these shadows and living in there world. He notices that Phil is also living like this as well. But what Craig in the end notices is that real life to him is a struggle and it will never happen because he only knows what he thinks is real are his imaginations and drawings.

Plato's Allegory is similar to Craig because Craig throughout the book is having a hard time trying to figure himself as well as others out. It's like he doesn't know who he really is in  a way. Craig is then having to live the real life and let people in but soon finds out that it is actually hard to do and can't be done.

For Craig burning all his memories is like what happened at the beginning of the book. He burned everything in the beginning because he thought that that would help him get rid of his memories so that he could move on and he wouldn't have to remember anything anymore. So by him doing that in the beginning, maybe he possibly thought that burning all the memories of Raina would release all his memories of her so that he won't be thinking about the most beautiful girl in his eyes that he has ever met.

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