Book Cover #3

In my opinion, after looking at all 4 book covers, I believe that the one that represents the story the best is the third one. I think this because the cover is a picture of a young boy, who at first glance you can tell is very different from the rest of the children his age. Just like Ben was. The cover of the boy makes you wonder why he seems to be so different, and represents Ben very well. Many people were afraid of him, many didn't understand why he looked the way he did, and the cover also shows the fearful image of what Ben could have looked like on the outside. Even though on the inside he was the same average child, his body structure and outside figure made people realize that maybe he isn't the same as everyone else after all, even before being born. "By the time she was there, there were strong wrenching pains, worse, she knew, than ever in the past. The baby seemed to be fighting its way out. She was bruised-she knew it; inside she must be one enormous black bruise...and no one would ever know" (Lessing 48). The cover kind of gives you a foreshadowing effect for what events are going to occur in the novel.