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Intended purpose:

1. The purpose of the first book cover is to state two important parts of the book. On the book cover we see a girl dancing. This may be the main character Kathy, from the scene in the book where she is dancing with the pillow. The girl in on the book cover seems to be blurry, which can represent the theme of memory.  
2. The purpose of the second book cover is to provide the audience with the tone of the setting and emotion in the book. The book cover show a girl, this might be Kathy, sitting alone in the grass. This can illustrate how Kathy after being a carer feels lonely, disheartened and ain't looking forward and only have the future the government provided for her. 
3. The purpose of the book cover is to present how society treats the donors. The boat on the front page is an illustration of the way society treats the donors after their donations, how they are just left there to "complete." 
4. The purpose of this book cover is to represent the theme of donations. The drawing illustrates the organs in the human body and the barbed wire illustrate how they can't escape this. 

Similarities and differences 

The most important similarities of all of the four book covers is that they hits all important theme within the book: loneliness, treatment of society, donations, memories and the ability to accept ones fate. The first three book covers a very similar in the choice of color, the use of warmer color creates a more positive tone, whereas the last cover uses very dark and cold color and thereby create a more dark/sinister tone. The two first book cover a similar in the way that both of them are portraying the main character Kathy and they both seem very old school in the tone/attitude. Different from the first two book covers, the last two seems to a more modern expression, in the use on techniques. The third book cover is clearly a photography and the quality and the specific technique such as tilting the horizon is intended to provide a more modern expression. In the same way as the fourth book cover uses the technique of building a shadow within the picture, symbolizing bars and how there is no chance of escape. All of this within the picture of the human body and the organs, creates a more graffiti-type look to the cover, which is a more modern used technique.      

The first words that come to my mind when looking at this book cover is movement, unknown, girl and childish. This is due to the choice of color on the cover, how the blurriness creates an illusion of movement and how the lack of detail and the fact that you can't see her face creates an sense of the girl being unknown and drawing slightly childish. It looks like the girl is either spinning around as if she was dancing/playing or turning so she can get away/escape. If I hadn't read the book and just looked at the cover I would have picture the story to be about a girls life and it would be everyday situations or maybe a biography. This book cover is a illustration of Kathy's dance, how she is spinning around with a pillow in her arms. Kathy is portrayed in the book cover by the author, and how he sees Kathy. Furthermore it represents the structure in which the book is told, by creating the sense of blurriness of the girl dancing (Kathy) illustrates the authors choice of tells Kathy, Ruth and Tommy's story from Kathy's memories. In their society it doesn't seems like anyone cares about the donors and the carers, and thereby only their own relationships, emotions and memories that makes them feel important. Looking at this book cover, the book sense like it would have been written to everyday people from the middle class. 

     

   

The first words that come to my mind when looking at this book cover cold, youth, graffiti and  concrete wall. The colors chosen in the book cover is very cold and dark, together with the barbed wire and the organs, it creates a sense of sinister. The darker spots on the cover might look like bushes and the two vertical dark lines might symbolizes bars, as if one is being imprisoned or being kept awake from freedom. The organs on the book cover relates to the books theme of donations and the bared wire represents the isolation the students have from the "normal people" and how the donors don't have a choice concerning their own fate. If I hadn't read the book and just looked at the cover I would have picture the book to be a youth book, maybe concerning juvie, someone how have a lot of problem or a misfit in relations til society. The book cover is a really good representation of the life of a students at Hailsham, how they are being isolated and only used for their organs. Looking at this book cover, the book sense like it would have been written to young people, modern people and maybe people living in the city.