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- What similarities and differences do you find? Speculate on the reasons for the various covers.
These covers want to communicate loss of something.. in a very futuristic society where very advanced scientific procedures can be performed. The girl running away is indicative of loss ... in this case of memories or of people. The organs show how the society is focused on medical, or health and symbolizes the organ donation. I also think that without faces on the cover, it kind of symbolizes how the clones aren't really individuals and they are just objects. The organ picture combines the Hailsham element of art and the clone element of organ donors which is neat because it shows 2 important aspects of the main character's lives right on the cover!!
1) What are the first words that come into your mind when you see this image? What does it make you think of?
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?
3) Who seems to be portrayed? From whose viewpoint are we looking?
I think it's Kathy because she is the one that tells the story and she knows about loss of loved ones because of organ donating and because of being a clone the best. If it was from someone else's view, for example Ruth's, they might not have focused on the reality of being a clone as much as Kathy would. She is the one that is mainly lucid and accepting of it the whole way through. Ruth was obsessed with being acknowledged and popular the whole time, and trying to be better than Kathy. Tommy struggled with his attitude, art, and finding a way to fit in. Kathy reflects on her life as a clone and what it really means.
4) Does this image spark any ideas about the cultural construction of the book?
that says "super high tech" not "super high tea"
5) What kinds of people would make this book, and what kinds of people would read it?
Translation: People who appreciate every moment of life or wish they did. Because everything is temporary.
