Sunday, November 15, 2009

The Fifth Child

I liked the second cover for the book The Fifth Child. It showed a person on the cover of the book who was unhappy, which was exactly how this family ended up. Harriet and David wanted a lot of children and got that, unfortunately for them the last child was trouble.I feel that the second book cover fits the description of the book the best because i think that Ben is the person who is shown on this cover, it is not a normal looking child. Ben was a huge baby with abnormally large muscles and was very rough. "...Poor little beast, his mother disliking him so much . . . but she heard herself say nervously, though she tried to laugh. "He is like a troll or goblin or something." (Lessing, pg 49). That is why i think the second book cover fits best.