Book covers

There are many covers that go along with The Fifth Child. But out of the 4 covers I feel that the second one down represents the book the best. When looking at it you see many things. When I first glanced at it, I saw a face. The eyes were in between the arms of the person, and it had an eerie smile. It also looks like this face is wearing a mask. But when you look closer you can see a boy ready to jump out of a window. This cover shows how complicated this book is. It has a feeling of darkness and horror to it, the same feeling that the book created. When the first four children were born everything was fine and happy. "This was happiness in the old style." (Lesing, p. 17) People reading this book wouldn't get this dark horrific cover at that point in the book. Then, after Ben was born and they saw the pain that he created among the family, people would quickly agree with the cover. The book has a lot of feelings of darkness, horror, and gothic. The cover that I picked is able to put that same feeling on one piece of paper.