Ive Got You Covered...

 

The first image is depicts what the role of the clones are. It shows the vital organs that they will donate, but it doesn't have the heart. The heart would be what symbolizes them as "Human", since clones arent believed to have souls ( and its kinda hard to depict a soul through drawings). The body contains the vital organs in barbed wire fences, giving the title a new meaning. Literally being dont let go of your organs, dont conform and never let go of yourself. 

The second pic looks like a young girl, more than likely Kathy. It looks like one of the scenes she would have described in the book, like the rhubarb patch or so. Its a "typical" book cover, a young girl sitting in a field, But there is kind of an underlying darkness because you would know if you read the book that that girl would not be "typical" and that field that shes in is either Hailsham or somewhere near the cottages or so. 


1) What are the first words that come into your mind when you see this image?  What does it make you think of? 
Sickness- since its the body that has its organs showing, the barb wire could either be the fence keeping them trapped inside or a fence keeping something out?? 
Summer- that looks like a cliche Chick-flick promo that has a terrible Hetero love triangle with badly thought out life decisions

2) If you hadn't read any of the novel, what would this image make you think the book was about?  Now that you've read the novel, what kind of relationship(s) does this image have to the text?  
If i hadnt read the novel the answers for number 1 is what i would think the book is about. But now that ive read the novel i know that the first cover is the organs that the clones have to donate, the barb wire fence is symbolizing that they are supposed to be caged in to be protected and that the clones are only livestock 
 
3) Who seems to be portrayed?  From whose viewpoint are we looking?  
the second cover seems like it would be Kathy H being portrayed as a teenager in a field somewhere on Hailshams property. this would kind of give a face to the narrator of the story. the first cover would be from the clones perspective, basically stating that they are all once again livestock fencing off their bodies to protect the organs that they will one day donate

4) Does this image spark any ideas about the cultural construction of the book? 
The first cover that i have up there is what the culture in the book is really about ( the take these clones and use there organs  for the "real" humans). These clones will only ever know about giving pieces of themselves away that is what their culture is. the second cover is the culture that Hailsham and the humans that run the school want people to believe is true. The want the clones to believe that they have this great Chick-flick Lifestyle where everything goes great and there is no sickness or pain in the world. these two covers are show two very different images on the cultural construct of this book.