For this blog post I have chosen to compare the third and fourth NLMG book covers.
These two book covers are completely different in almost every aspect. It is almost hard to believe that both of these covers are for the same story. While the third one seems mysterious and draws you in, the fourth looks like something from another word and frightful. For one, the primary color used is yellow while in the other, most of the cover is a dark blue. Also, the yellow cover has neat, block, white letters compared to the scrambled, disorganized title on the blue cover.
The third (yellow) cover has a picture of a boat on the edge of a lake with a foggy haze over it. I believe the purpose of this is to touch on a major theme in NLMG, the theme of the unknown. Throughout the book, the unknown is a major factor in the children's lives and they seem to be scared to search for answers. This matches perfectly with the boat on the foggy lake because the mystery of not knowing whats passed the fog on the lake draws the reader in. If I was unfamiliar with the story of Never Let Me Go, when looking at this cover I might think the story was about a man looking for adventure and finds love after leaving his home in the middle of the night and getting on this little boat.
The fourth (blue) cover is a drawing of a torso and the organs within the stomach. This cover is more obvious in terms of NLMG because the main characters are clones who grow up to donate their organs. However the bodies are missing all other limbs so as the head, legs and arms. This represents how the clones' only purpose in live is to donate their valuable organs. The rest of their bodies are not important. When i first see this cover, I am drawn to lettering of the title and how they are very static and scary. If i had not read NLMG I would think this book to be similar to frankenstein. A mad scientist attempting to create a human out of separate parts.
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