To Kill a Mockingbird
For the Penguin book cover design competition for this studio brief the adult fiction book category book is To Kill a Mockingbird By Haper Lee. For this brief Penguin state that
'To Kill A Mockingbird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece of modern literature and was voted the most loved book of the last sixty years by The Times readers in October 2009. It has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold over thirty million copies worldwide. So no pressure. We would like you to design a new and classic cover for this book. The trick here will be to come at it from a fresh perspective and to avoid repeating the obvious iconography from the many previous editions in print. If you can get your hands on a copy of the book in order to get a sense of the beautiful writing, this will only help to inspire your design. The cover should feel timeless and confident, and appeal to a whole new generation of readers.
As stated the on the online brief Penguin states that the book cove theme should focus heavily on a new idea or view on the book to inspire the cover. Over covers should be research and analyzed so that they are not copied or recreated due to this, the book cover need to take inspiration from a less obvious theme in the book therefore reading the book might also be useful for this brief. The book cover should promote the book to a younger audience, it should appeal to the younger generation of readers.
TARGET AUDIENCE - younger generation
THEME- fresh perspective
TONE OF VOICE - reflect the style of writing
FIRST PUBLISTED - July 11, 1960
AUTHOR - harper lee
REQUIREMENTS-
'Your cover design needs to include all the cover copy supplied and be designed to the specified design template – B format, 198mm high x 129mm wide, spine width 20 mm, incorporating the ARROW branding and all additional elements such as the barcode.'
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.co.uk/about-us/design-award/adult-fiction-cover-award/#briefadult
WHAT THE JUGDES WHAT-
'We are looking for a striking cover design that is well executed, has an imaginative concept and clearly places the book for its market. While all elements of the jacket need to work together as a cohesive whole, remember that the front cover must be effective on its own and be eye-catching within a crowded bookshop setting. It also needs to be able to work on screen for digital retailers such as Amazon.
The winning design will need to:
-have an imaginative concept and original interpretation of the brief
-be competently executed with strong use of typography
-appeal to a contemporary readership
-show a good understanding of the marketplace
-have a point of difference from the many other book covers it is competing against
Copyright must be cleared for all images used in your cover design and you must include a credit line on the back cover of your design for any third party images used. For example: ‘Cover photograph by Joe Bloggs’.
As Penguin want a cover that gives an unique view on the book plot and story line from a new perspective reading the book itself will be very useful as it will allow me to grabs a personal opinion on the writing style, see plot detail left out of summaries, and overall will explain the book therefore the book has been ordered. Before the book comes to start the design process summaries via the internet in different forms from different sites, this is to make sure that there is range of different version of the story included as well as to make sure any missed information/details are included.
As To Kill A Mocking bird is studied heavily thought american school as a modern classic there are main different websites with summaries, explanation and other useful information that will inform the concept for the book cover. These website allow more research t be conducted into the themes, lessons ect of the book as there is a wide range of information available to help with being taught in schools.
PENGUIN PLOT SUMMARY-
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’ A lawyer’s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee’s classic novel – a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man’s struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much. '
via -https://www.penguinrandomhouse.co.uk/about-us/design-award/adult-fiction-cover-award/#briefadult
text summaries-
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mocking/summary.html
http://www.shmoop.com/to-kill-a-mockingbird/summary.html
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/t/to-kill-a-mockingbird/book-summary
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mocking/facts.html
video clips-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqkohqLvClI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgDDyFnbCv0
OVER ALL SUMMARY AFTER READING-
-Scout Flinch (6) Lives with her brother Jem(10), dad Atticus and friend in the Deep South in the 1920 during the great depression, her mum has died. Her friend Dill (11) lives near by over summer, the rest of the year he lives with his mum away.
-scout and jem are given air rilfeels but told not to kill mocking birds
-Finch family is reasonably well off in comparison to the rest of society as her dad is lawyer
- The children becomes fascinated with the spooky house on their street called the Radley Place. The house is owned by Mr. Nathan Radley, whose brother, Arthur (nicknamed Boo), has lived there for years without venturing outside.
-Scout is a tomboy who prefers the company of boys and generally solves her differences with her
-Scout and Jem find gifts of pennies, chewing gun and soap dolls representing them apparently left for them in a knothole of a tree on the Radley property.
-Dill Scout, and Jem begin to act out the story of Boo Radley. Atticus puts a stop to their antics, urging the children to try to see life from another person’s perspective before making judgments.
-Dill’s last night in Maycomb for the summer, the three sneak onto the Radley property, where Nathan Radley shoots at them. Jem loses his pants in the ensuing escape. When he returns for them, he finds them mended and hung over the fence, Fixed by Boo Radley
-During a fire someone slips a blanket on Scout’s shoulders as she watches the blaze shes convinced that Boo.
-Atticus agrees to defend a black man named Tom Robinson, who has been accused of raping a white woman.
-Atticus’s decision, Jem and Scout are subjected to abuse from other children.
-Next summer Atticus’s sister, Alexandra, comes to live with the Finches. She tries to make Scout more feminine.
-Tom Robinson’s trial begins, and when the accused man is placed in the local jail, a mob gathers to lynch him. Atticus faces the mob down the night before the trial. Jem and Scout, who have sneaked out of the house, soon join him. Scout recognizes one of the men, and her polite questioning about his son shames him into dispersing the mob.
-At the trial itself, the children sit in the “colored balcony” with the town’s black citizens.
-Atticus provides clear evidence that the accusers, Mayella Ewell and her father, Bob, are lying but Tom is convinced anyway by the all-white jury convicts him. Even tho he cannot use his left hand and the bruises have been causes by a left handed man.
-Tom later tries to escape from prison and is shot to death
-Bob Ewell feels that Atticus and the judge have made a fool out of him, and he vows revenge. He menaces Tom Robinson’s widow, tries to break into the judge’s house, and finally attacks Jem and Scout as they walk home from a Halloween party. The party is about the agriculture of Maycomb County. Scout is going as a ham
-Boo Radley intervenes, however, saving the children and stabbing Ewell fatally during the struggle. Boo carries the wounded Jem back to Atticus’s house, where the sheriff, in order to protect Boo, insists that Ewell tripped over a tree root and fell on his own knife. After sitting with Scout for a while, Boo disappears once more into the Radley house.
-Scout embraces her father’s advice to practice sympathy and understanding and demonstrates that her experiences with hatred and prejudice will not sully her faith in human goodness.
THEMES-
racism, danger, classism, prejudice, violence, hypocrisy, justice, maturing, being female, social issues in america at the time,
-race
-justice and judgement
-morality/ethics
-fear
-women/femininity
-family
-compassion
-coming of age
STYLE- Negative at the start, positive ending
POINT OF VOICE/NARRATIVE- 6 year old Scout but the style of writing makes it seem as if its been wrote when shes older, thinking back on the event
TIME SET-1920/great depression times
TONE OF VOICE- Factual, Naive from scout point of view
POINT OF VIEW · Scout narrates in the first person, telling what she saw and heard at the time and augmenting this narration with thoughts and assessments of her experiences in retrospect. Although she is by no means an omniscient narrator, she has matured considerably over the intervening years and often implicitly and humorously comments on the naïveté she displayed in her thoughts and actions as a young girl. Scout mostly tells of her own thoughts but also devotes considerable time to recounting and analyzing Jem’s thoughts and actions.
SETTING- deep south during the great depression
LESSONS-
https://prezi.com/5ducuf8wvlkm/life-lessons-to-kill-a-mockingbird/
https://www.buzzfeed.com/staceygrant91/10-life-lessons-atticus-finch-from-to-kill-a-mock-xpfm?utm_term=.umQvOE517#.qwAy7qKb5
https://breathebooks.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/lessons-learnt-throughout-to-kill-a-mockingbird-by-harper-lee/
1-Don't kill mockingbirds, they don't harm anyone, they just make music
2-You never know or understand a person until you become them/People are complicated. Learn about their lives before judging them/be open minded
3- All people have a right to an opinion
4-Bad things happen. It’s better to just accept that and work with it.
5-Don’t destroy the beauty in the world/don't kill mocking birds it a sin
6-People aren’t always what they seem.
7.Think for yourself, instead of following the crowd.
8.Remain calm and civilized, even when people are rude to you.
9. Courage comes from within.
10. Never give up, no matter the outcome.
11.Treat everyone equally; you’re no better than anyone else/ equailty
12. Race doesn't define you
13.Never, ever be afraid to stand up for what’s right/ moral stance
14.Protect the innocent
QUOTES-
"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. - Atticus Finch”
“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“Things are always better in the morning.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
'You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
“You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ‘em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change.”
“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
FACTS
https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=interesting%20fact%20about%20to%20kill%20a%20mockingbird
http://www.listland.com/top-10-most-important-facts-about-to-kill-a-mockingbird/
-inspired by real events
-Atticus is modeled of her father
-Reflects the racism seen in her childhood
-Boo might be an albion
-film won best art direction
-To Kill a Mockingbird once beat the Bible in sales
-To Kill a Mockingbird was voted the number one book to read before you die
-To Kill A Mockingbird was Harper Lee’s only novel
-To Kill a Mockingbird is Significantly Autobiographical
-The Book Questions Gender and Class Roles in Southern Life
-To Kill a Mockingbird is, Fundamentally, a Story About the Loss of Innocence
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