On the left side of my cover, I drew the "society" that Holden lives in. It's very city-like, which characterizes New York, but if you look closely, the faces of the people have two colors. I used two different colors for the faces of the people to represent phoniness. I interpreted the word, "phony" as a person who exposed themselves differently than who they actually were, or someone who did things, not out of good will, but for other, underlying motives. The two colors represent this because it conveys the message that people portray themselves in two (or more) different ways. Also, the fact that there are many people with two-colored faces exemplifies that phoniness is very widespread and common in our modern-day society.
If you look at Holden, he is faced away from the phony people and society on the left. I purposely made Holden face the other direction because phoniness is society's biggest problem in Holden's eyes, and he is absolutely disgusted by phony people.
On the right side of my cover page, I drew ducks, not only because Holden constantly wonders what happens to the ducks in the winter time, but because the ducks are very symbolic of him. Ducks migrate in the winter time to warmer climates. Similarly, Holden shares the same instinct as ducks because he flees from bad situations. Additionally, if you look carefully at Holden's face, hopefully you'll observe that Holden is looking at the ducks with awe. The reason is because the ducks also resemble freedom, something that Holden desires greatly. Holden wants to be in a phony-free society, he wants to live without the restrictions that his parents and teachers enforce, and he wants to be free from his confusion, caused by his inability to understand his own feelings and communicate his own feelings with other people.
Hai Jeffrey!
답글삭제I love your book-cover. Especially the two faced people is a great way to display the symbol of phoniness in society. I also liked your set up; how Holden faces AWAY from the "main-stream society" and towards ducks, the freedom he's longing to. I agree that he doesn't want to be restricted by his parents or teachers, and kind of wanting to grow up. As a child you always have rules that you have to follow, but as an adult you're somewhat more free. But for some reason he's unable to grow up, something is stopping him. That's what I believe.
Well all in all, I really like your book cover and that it includes so many details, however I wonder what the red hat stands for?
Hey Jeffrey, I thought this was a very accurate description of how Holden would describe his current situation. Maybe it's because our posts are so similar. However, there was one part that I liked about your post that I never thought of before: how the ducks resembled freedom, and freedom was something Holden never had the chance to experience. His whole teenage life, he has been confined to the school communities that his parents pushed him into with it's hallways packed with phonies, and by the lingering dread of disappointing them once again. As he knows that this freedom comes at the heavy cost becoming an adult and therefore a phony himself, he constantly forces himself into being judgmental towards the people around him, twisting himself towards the worse.
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