Camp Idawana
In Bless the Beasts & Children, the six main characters are all campers at the Box Canyon Boys Camp. ... In one scene Goodenow is forced by his stepfather to go to this camp, the stepfather says that he wants to make him into a man. ... Also when he first got to the camp he did not yet have Cotton as a role model and was struggling. ... Even though Goodenow has all of these problems, his experience at this summer camp made him mature.