1. The first cover shows what looks like a very simple sketch, with thin lines and not much depth. It's monochromatic, a sort of bluish- gray in various shades. You can see the outline of what looks like lungs, a liver and a colon, and if you look closer, the whole thing looks somewhat like a human abdomen. Upon further examination, it seems as if the bottom part of the sketch is meant to be barbed wire. The intended purpose is likely to serve as foreshadowing of sorts, as the organs represented in the picture are the vitals that the Hailsham students will end up donating.
2. The second cover shows a boat tethered to a pole. It is a small rowboat with no oars. The cover looks almost like a gradient, starting bright yellow at the top and moving to a darker brownish purple at the bottom. You can see what looks like a pier or boardwalk in the background, but the water is calm and the boat is the only thing in the water. There is no sign of people anywhere. This picture is pulling from the end of the book, where Tommy, Ruth and Kathy go to visit the boat before Ruth completes. It is somewhat foreshadowing because it is referencing something that happened at the end of the book, but it also isn't because it doesn't give us any insight into what happens.
1. To be honest, the first part of this that caught my attention was the barbed wire, and my first thought from that was Orange is the New Black and the prison that we have to drive past on the way to the summer camp I go to. The lungs also caught my attention, and that reminded me of the "The Real Cost" anti-smoking campaign, because everything they do seems to involve a set of lungs. The first words that come to mind would have to be "ME", purely because that's the word that is front and center on the cover.
2. The first thing that came to mind when I see the boat is camp. A big part of what we do there is sailing/kayaking/canoeing, so the boat and the pier made me think of that. The first word that comes to mind is probably dusk. It looks as if the sun is setting, and that's what is giving it that soft yellow but still dark color scheme.
1. If I hadn't read any of the novel, I probably would've thought it was about someone who was having a lot of medical issues and whose SO or loved one was struggling with knowing they were going to complete soon (see what I did there?). Now that I have read the text, I know that (as I stated earlier) the human abdomen and the organs are meant to represent the Hailsham kids and the vital organs that they'll grow up to donate.
2. If I hadn't read any of the novel, I'd likely think that this book was some Nicholas Sparks-type mess. Romantic, cheesy, you know the type. This is because a pier/boardwalk over the ocean seems like a really romantic and stereotypical setting, and the boat reminds me of that scene from The Little Rascals with Darla and Alfalfa in the boat with all the kids spying on them and making gagging noises. Now that I have read the book, I know (again, as I mentioned before) that the boat is meant to represent the one that the three go to see before Ruth completes.
1. In this cover, the abdomen pictured is likely meant to represent any of the Hailsham kids or the ones that would eventually become carers/donors because it only shows the vitals that would eventually be donated. It's difficult to tell whose viewpoint we're looking from because it's a sketch. There's a chance that we could be looking from the perspective of one of the Hailsham guardians and that the sketch is from one of the kids after Miss Lucy's speech, especially since they encourage art so much.
2. In this picture, I would venture to guess that we are either looking from Kathy's perspective or from our own. There are no people in the picture, which is what leads me to believe that it's not from Kathy's perspective because if it was, there would likely be people in the picture meant to be Ruth and Tommy. By the same token, it can't really represent someone if there's no one in it. It's more meant to represent that last outing as a group after everything those three have been through together.
Hey Taryn-
ReplyDeleteYou missed Part I of this post.