expanation on book cover

In my book cover I had two images that describe Holden more than the book, however the book is mostly about Holden so I think this would be a good front and back cover.

On my front cover I have a boy representing Holden with a big question mark towards three different doors, this image represents Holden’s life, because he never knows what to do or were to go. As he says when he gets to New York into the cab he is traveling incognito. Which means he doesn’t have a placer were wants to go and doesn’t care much to find a place.  The big question mark on his head also represents the lack of decision he has, he doubts a lot and often he will find himself into a place were he wont know what’s happening.

On my back cover I drew a guy holding a mask, about to wear it. I think this mask can represent the fact that he is really double faced and when he is with his roommates or other people he will “wear this mask” and try to be the tuff guy that doesn’t care about life or the bad moments that he has had to go trough. When he finds himself by his on in the story he takes this mask off and let us see whom he really is. When he opens up to his true character we can see that he is not the negative shameless guy that he tries to be, but he cares and also see good stuff about people, places and objects. For example when he cries because he was leaving pency prep. Or when he was walking in New York saying the “yellow” guy he was.

As I mentioned before my two covers have more to do with Holden than with the them, but I think is a good way to represent the book, because by knowing the main character we know what can we expect from the novel.