Cover Wars: The Clone Wars

Overall Analysis:
      Of the four covers presented, the images are the most different aspects of the cover.  Word-wise, each cover generally has the title, the author, and sometimes an award received.  There are two covers with an image of a young girl turning away from the camera.  However, one of the covers is blurred, perhaps to show that cover as part of a memory.  The other image is a clear picture of a girl, to show her as being more in the present.   Another cover has a clear image of a boat docked by the shore.  After reading the book it is obvious this is the boat they visited as adults, however before reading the book it gives a melancholy feel and might represent transition in life. The last cover is my favorite and is a hand-drawn image of the insides of a human body.  This cover is more clean than the others, leaving out any awards won to give a simple feel.  The image is referring to the students donating their vital organs.  However, upon first look it looks like a child was asked to draw a picture of the human body, to show the children in the book and their dark future.
Cover 1: Orange Blurred Girl (Bottom Right)
      The first thing I think of when I see this image is the idea of a lost memory.  The image is blurred to show fading memory, and the girls face can't be seen, which show the loss of the memory.  It reminds me of how in Inception Cobb's children are never shown fully in his flashbacks and dreams, only the back of them is shown, to show that Cobb forgot his own children's face.  If I hadn't read the book, I would think that this book is about the childhood of a girl, and how she remembers it as an adult.  After reading the text, I would think about the same thing.  The cover is an image of Kathy as a child.   Kathy as an adult is trying to remember her childhood, because that was the peak of her existence,  but now that she is an adult, she forgets some parts, and also realizes some parts that didn't make sense to her as a child.  So the blur is the filter of her memory between her and her past. The image does a good job of applying to any female reader.  It doesn't show an ethnicity of the character, and the dress is a mild color that covers her well.  This creates the thought that the girl on the cover could be anyone.  This book seems like it was written by an author who specializes in literature for young-adults, and the cover would make it seem like it was for any teenage girl to read.  It is a bright and sort of exciting cover on the whole.
Cover 2: Grey Drawing of Body (Bottom Left)
      The first thing I think of when I see this image is the idea of a child drawing this, it is a decent drawing however, it only includes the major organs and it is sort of soft in the details.  Another interesting detail is that the body is surrounded by barbed, wire to show that the contents are valuable, and need protecting.  Honestly, if I had seen this cover before reading it, I would have thought that it was about the holocaust, mostly because of the dark grey background and the barbed wire surrounding.  However now that I've read the book I understand that it is the children's body from their perspective.  They were told as children that they needed to protect their body, no smoking and no STD's.  So they view their insides as being important, and they have to protect it, maybe with barbed wire.  This image relates back to the idea of ethics in organ transplantation and cloning, that is seen throughout the book.  This image shows the clones as just a bag of organs, with no head or soul.  It neglects to show the children as real people. This cover would attract people into darker and more dramatic books.  As a whole it is a way darker and more intense image than the orange cover.