
The first cover looks like a girl sitting in a forbidden garden. Because of the haze and the way she is covered by the plants gives the illusion that she is hiding from something. It has a peaceful tone.
The second cover has a blurry women on the front. This could be because of the way the story is told. First person narration is used and often times Kathy says that shes not quite sure about what she is saying. This could be an image from Kathy's memory and that is why it is so blurry. It has a happy tone because of the warm colors.
The third cover remind me of viking burials where they put the corpse in a boat and floated them off into the ocean. It has a very dark tone because of the haze and how the background is an ominous looking black skyline. The large amount of cloudy sky also attributes to the tone.
The fourth cover is very dark and references the donation of organs through the use of a human body made of thin black lines. Also, the outside of the body is made of barbed wire showing how their bodies are really just containers for there organs nothing more.
The Bottom Two Covers:
- The left one makes me think of death and pollution. Everything looks very dark and menacing, almost like it is set in a word that is falling apart. The right one makes me think of prison. Their bodies being a prison for their organs and Hailsham being a prison to the kids.
- The left cover before reading would make me think of some sort of viking romance novel. After reading It could be a picture of the pond at hailsham. The right one before reading would make me think its a book about an insane asylum where they do strange medical experiments on their patients. After reading it is clearly referencing the fact that these kids are only born to have their organs harvested.
- The right one is from the viewpoint of the guardians. It cant be from the kids because they seem to be perfectly happy to give up their organs. This would be from a guardian like Mrs. Lucy. She understand that their organs are the only thing about them that is valued and she doesn't like it so the cover is very dark. The left on could be a kid that is about to complete looking back on how hailsham was and realizing that they were just being grown for their organs which would cause the dark mood depicted.
- The left cover is pretty vague and doesn't have much to offer culture wise. The right cover however shows the importance of vital organs. It shows all the organs that can be transplanted and there for the only ones that are off value in the society. It also shows how they treat the children through the use of the barbed wire.
- Both covers cater to a audience that enjoy a darker type of entertainment. Neither cover looks to be happy or joyful like the ones about. They are likely to be a distopic novel simply because of the amount of dark colors.
Very cool ideas here, but I do think you can do more. Think about the "what" (terminology, devices, features) and then the "how"
ReplyDeleteReview this to make sure you're hitting on those key big picture ideas: https://image.slidesharecdn.com/paper1sl-150909144325-lva1-app6891/95/paper-1-sl-4-638.jpg?cb=1441810419
I think you had a really good start at analyzing the covers, but you could go deeper. For example, I agree with your ideas about the fourth cover that the barbed wire represents the treatment of the children, but in addition to that I would've addressed the idea of the barbed wire as the skin but not the organs, and how that acts a barrier to protect their organs from harm or as it keeps the organs in.
ReplyDeleteI thought you hit a lot of good key points in your overview. In your comparisons I thought you had a good points, for example the idea of a dystopian future was presented, but you didnt go much past the idea of darkness and barbed wire
ReplyDeleteHey Ty, great job of your post! I think comparing the colors of the four covers was a really good idea, as we can certainly read into different colors having different effects on the viewer. There were a few spots where you said that further analysis was not possible, like with the bottom left cover being "pretty vague", where you might be able to go a bit deeper. Everything else looked really great!
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