Forever Let Me Go

Forever Let Me Go

For this blog, I have chosen to compare and contrast the two covers shown below.

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When comparing and contrasting the two titles, it was very easy to notice the eminent and physical differences rather than the hidden similarities. In the image shown on the left, the title of "Never Let Me Go" seems to be scrawled in random places on the cover. You can also see the outline of the human torso and the outlines of the human organs. I found it very interesting how the word "Me" is written inside the body, almost to represent a first person point of view without even having to read to find out that the story is written from a first person point of view. The fact that the cover is in duller colors such as gray, black, and white, givens emotion to the title in which the audience can infer the emotional attachment that follows from reading this book. With the image on the right, we see the cover has a very golden tent to it. There is what appears to be a small boat on the shore of the beach with a dock in the background. It is very different form the image shown on the left because the image not he right encompasses a warm, yet peaceful feel, rather the left image comes with a very cold and dark feel to it. However, the two covers are similar in the sense that they both have a specific meaning. When I look at the two covers, I see them both trying to portray the idea of peace: the left image portraying inner peace, and the right image portraying outer peace.

1.) When I first see the image on the left, I automatically think of death. I think this because of the dark grey colors that make up the scrawled sketch of the human body in the background. It makes me think of a morgue. How everything in a morgue is very cold and grey, it just makes me connect this to the cover of the book.

      When I first see the picture on the right, I immediately think of simplicity and peace. The image reminds me of the times in life where we have the opportunity to get away from the trials and tribulations we, as busy people, face everyday. It reminds me of the feeling of just letting go for a while while sailing on the sea, thinking of nothing but the sound of the water and the feeling of peace the surrounding brings with it.

2.) If I had never read the novel, and I was viewing the cover on the left, I would assume the book is about someone who is close to death, but doesn't want to let go yet. Now that I have read the book, the image helps me connect to the feeling Kathy has throughout the book as she is living her life, knowing that one day she would possibly be a donor. In spite of her knowledge of this, she still didn't want to let go of the life that she was living, despite the knowledge of her fate.

    If I had never read the novel, and I was viewing the cover on the left, I would assume the book was about a person who wanted to run away, but wanted someone to chase after then. Now that I have read the book, I can connect this to the feeling Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy had of wanting to leave and go create adventures and memories of their own- make a life of simplicity, peace, and happiness on their own.

3.) I don't think someone is being portrayed necessarily from these two covers, but the viewpoint for the image on the left could be from any character who is a clone, and the one on the right could be from the students at a younger age when they didn't really know or understand who they were or what their purpose was.

4.)The images, to me, doesn't exactly spark any image of cultural construction from the book, but they both could be images that represented the way the students at Hailsham viewed their life: the right image the way they viewed life growing up, and the left image representing where their lives were headed.

5.)After reading the book, I feel as though the people who would want to create the book are the ones who would just as much want to read it. I view those people as the ones who go about life knowing that their lives are one day going to come to an end, but choose to live each and every day as if they are immortal.