The End (of at least this one)

My Cover for Parvana's Journey

           This is for a school project and since I need one more post I will talk about this and some other stuff. 
            The original cover or at least the one I had was generic it depicted Asif, Parvana, Hassan, and Liela traveling through an Afghan desert. Mine has at least some symbolism this is hidden in the planes and some what in Parvana's face. In this picture Parvana is turning away from the land mine blast (It my not look like that, I'm only your average run of the mill eighth grade artist). There is a mass hidden behind the blast. From previous posts people can probably guess who it is. This freeze frame shows one of the major themes in Parvana's Journey, action and reaction and how it can effect your lives. As you can see this is Parvana's reaction to what happened also you can see the slight frown. I would have drawn her crying but i would suspect that she would try to be strong for Asif and Hassan. She couldn't have a complete melt down she still had to take care of them. Also Asif would presumptively give her grievance about her morning. 
            The planes also have some symbolism in them. In the book when planes went by it meant death and destruction. The first casualty form the planes was in Green Valley when one of the many bombs has impacts on green Valley destroying the p,ace that Parvana had found a home in. Many close calls happen after that. One of which almost gets Leila killed, this foreshadows her death. This close call was the last one Parvana witnessed. The last time in the book that anybody gets killed by the planes is when Leila dies. Some could argue that it was the landmine but, I like my theory. These planes were delivering food to the starved camp. Some of these parcels landed in the wrong place, a minefield. Leila Had before walked across a mine field with out getting blown up (lucky duck) and thought she could do it again. Her good intentions led her death sadly. So if the planes had not come or even put the packages in the minefield then Leila would be alive and not walking on a landmine.

Here are some more covers:





             The last thing to discuss is that rating and recommendations. Personally, this was not my favorite book there are many thing that Ellis. the author, could improve on. For example the book inched along until the ending pages. Where she started to kill people off and introduce some more depressing scenarios to speed up the book. The book was simple and basic the only hard part was trying to make it deep and meaningful. I not even sure how this got an award besides the fact that it touched a debatable topic. I would not recommend this book not just because it was a required read but, the straightforwardness of the book. My rating would be a five out of ten.  I gave a good view of what was going on in Afghanistan in a slightly more interesting way then reading a bunch of newspaper articles. Other then that it was so so.